Believe the current ISAF regs require 50% of the storm jib to be a highly visible color. Would have thought that having a colored patch sewn on by a local sailmaker would have been a pretty inexpensive option. Storms sails built in 2014 have to be 100% highly colored - but sails built before then are grandfathered provided they meet the 50% rule - at least that is my understanding.
I think the most expensive "safety" requirement - particularly for older boats is the provision of an emergency steering mechanism. Here is what Rich Du Moulin a multi-time Bermuda / Vineyard double-hander wrote in an article in Cruising World and how he met the requirement on Lora Ann an Express 37 "ury-rigged rudders made out of onboard junk are a joke. Most racing crews count on steering with a drogue, but even with practice, the best you can do is to steady the boat's motion while waiting for assistance. For most boats, a broken rudder means abandoning your boat and getting on a rescue vessel. Lora Ann's reverse transom precludes mounting a vertical rudder without adding a bulky stern frame, so we built a "trunk" between the cockpit floor and bottom of the hull into which we can slide an emergency rudder that breaks through a thin plate glued to the bottom. We've sailed with this rudder in 25 knots, and we believe that we could continue racing but not push the boat hard. Scanmar International <http://selfsteer.com/> offers a couple of interesting commercial products, the SOS Rudder and the M-Rud, that are also good alternatives for shorthanded voyagers looking for redundancy in their emergency-steering options." Jonathan Indigo 35-III now in Milford for the winter _____ From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Joel Aronson Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:34 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List ISAF regs A raft is about 600. Epirb should be less. I'd talk to safety chair before painting the sail. Joel Aronson On Nov 19, 2012, at 1:27 PM, David Paine <paineda...@gmail.com> wrote: Interesting. I am playing with sailing the Newport-Bermuda 1-2 and I too am a bit scared off by the entry costs. If I had a storm trisail (I don't yet), I'd spray paint the top third orange with a can of compatible (latex) paint. Any idea what the EPIRB/Raft rental costs are? I qualified last summer by sailing the offfshore single handed 160 in my 1975 C&C 33. David On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Joel Aronson <joel.aron...@gmail.com> wrote: The orange was waived down here due to a shortage of orange sailcloth. You may be correct that only a % had to be orange. The speaker was not sure. Joel Aronson On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:57 PM, "Hoyt, Mike" <mike.h...@impgroup.com> wrote: > I believe those requirements were in place for this year's Newport - > Bermuda race as well. On the boat we sailed I do not think the entire > storm jib had to be orange but a good portion of it did - don't remember > exactly. > > Was a very expensive race for our skipper. On top of the other costs it > required a month's vacation. Had to get the boat from Halifax to > Newport and then back to Halifax from Bermuda. It was his third > consecutive NB race and my first ... > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Joel > Aronson > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:48 PM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Subject: Stus-List ISAF regs > > Saturday I attended a meeting about the 2014 Annapolis Bermuda race. > Any delusions I had about sailing my boat were quashed. > Besides the $900 entrance fee, life raft and epirb rental they now > require that the storm job and try sail ( which I have and never have > been used ) be fluorescent orange. An emergency tiller isn't enough. > You need to be able to rig an emergency rudder too! > I'll be looking to crew on a boat owned by someone willing to shell > out for prepping their boat. The race organizers want more entries. > The safety folks apparently want fewer. > > Joel Aronson > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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