No racing today, Where's the Doctor?

Wednesday, 11th December 2002 

Racing in the Grolsch 505 World Championship was postponed until tomorrow due to lack of wind. Where is the Fremantle Doctor?

Presumably two races will be scheduled tomorrow to try and partly make up for the two scheduled races we were supposed to have today.

Time to hit the beach?

AGM:
The Annual General Meeting was held at 9:30 this morning. International Secretary Chris Thorne will be preparing and distributing the minutes of this meeting. Meeting highlights include:

Rule Changes:
The members present voted in favour of the proposal to remove the ban on carbon in spars. This proposal includes restrictions on rotating masts, wing masts, and large diameter thin tube sections. It also would allow carbon booms and spinnaker poles, and loose footed mainsails. Further, the proposal requires a minimum weight and minimum center of gravity for the mast, for a three year transition period. The weight and centre of gravity values were determined by weighing a number of different masts in the dinghy park.

A rule change clarifying that the low structure running across the boat near the back of the centreboard case was a thwart and increasing the maximum widths of all thwarts, while preventing double bottoms was passed. 

These two rule change proposals will now go to postal ballot of the boat owning membership.

Worlds: 
Santa Cruz was confirmed as the host of the 2004 Worlds
Germany was selected as the host of the 2005 Worlds

The formal meeting was adjourned as we had to rig and go sailing to make the start of the two scheduled races. Once we were postponed onshore, we started the Open Forum meeing and had a very spirited discussion. Notes will be posted soon.

Alexander Meller
President, International 505 Class Association