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Interesting titbit from the latest IRC congress minutes...
At last sense is seen. With all of the latest moves in IRC rating being to do with flying headsails, setting jibs of whisker poles to leeward etc etc, all being about offshore racing... At long last it seems to have finally dawned on the powers that be that forcing boats to rate for all these offshore features when racing inshore (or go through multiple rating changes per season) was going to put boats off racing inshore.
Quite why it is only a trial in Aus I don't know, hope it gets rolled out asap.
IRC rating on course for 2022 - IRC RatingThere was also a rule change submission from Australia for IRC to allow two concurrent certificates for different configurations, in their case the demand is for offshore v. inshore racing. The principle of two certificates was agreed by Congress and a pilot will be developed to be tested in Australia and other southern hemisphere countries during 2022, with a view to worldwide rollout if it proves successful.
At last sense is seen. With all of the latest moves in IRC rating being to do with flying headsails, setting jibs of whisker poles to leeward etc etc, all being about offshore racing... At long last it seems to have finally dawned on the powers that be that forcing boats to rate for all these offshore features when racing inshore (or go through multiple rating changes per season) was going to put boats off racing inshore.
Quite why it is only a trial in Aus I don't know, hope it gets rolled out asap.