| 2. |
ADMINISTRATION |
| 2.1 |
LANGUAGE
The official language of the class is English. In the event
of dispute over interpretation the English text shall prevail.
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| 2.2 |
BUILDERS |
| 2.2.1 |
Professional builders shall be licensed
by the ISAF. A professional builder is anyone who builds or has
built boats of any type for sale. |
| 2.2.2 |
A non-licensed builder shall be
permitted to build not more than one boat a year. |
| 2.2.3 |
Building licence
| (i) |
Applications for a building licence
shall be made in writing on the appropriate form to the ISAF,
who shall consult the IECU and the appropriate National Authority
(NA). |
| (ii) |
The issue of a licence shall not
authorise the production of boats for sale until the licence
has been ratified by ISAF approval of a prototype hull. Any subsequent
proposed change to the production tooling, hull characteristics
or layout, method of construction, materials or specification
shall require ISAF approval. The procedures for approval of the
prototype hull and subsequent changes, which shall include consultation
with the IECU, shall be detailed in the licence agreement. |
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| 2.2.4 |
International Class Fee
| (i) |
The International Class Fee (ICF)
shall be paid to IECU. The ICF shall be apportioned to the ISAF,
the IECU and Europe Class National Associations. The amounts
due to each shall be decided by the ISAF in consultation with
the IECU. |
| (ii) |
The amount of the ICF shall be reviewed
by the ISAF annually in consultation with the IECU. |
| (ii) |
The ICF shall be paid by the builder
on every hull or kit produced whether or not it is subsequently
completed, measured and registered. Payment shall be made to
IECU. The IECU will inform Sailing International Limited which
will issue a sticker, an ICF receipt and a current measurement
form and invoice the IECU for their due portion. |
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| 2.3 |
REGISTRATION AND MEASUREMENT
CERTIFICATE |
| 2.3.1 |
No boat is permitted to race in
the class unless it has a valid measurement certificate. |
| 2.3.2 |
The certificate is obtained as follows:
| (i) |
The builder, or owner shall apply
to the National Authority (NA) for a sail number enclosing the
ICF receipt. Personal sail numbers may be allowed. A same number
shall never exist twice.
The NA shall issue a sail number only on production of the ICF
receipt. |
| (ii) |
The boat shall be measured by an
official measurer. See Rule 2.4. The completed measurement form
shall be returned to the owner. |
| (iii) |
On completion of measurement the
owner shall send the completed measurement form to his/her NA
together with any registration fee that may be required. If satisfied,
from the evidence presented on the form, that the boat complies
with the rules in all respects the NA may then issue a measurement
certificate to the owner. See Rule 2.4.4. A certified copy of
the measurement form shall be provided with the certificate and
shall form part of the certification documents. |
| (iv) |
The certificate shall include the
following information. ISAF ICF plaque or sticker serial number,
National letter(s) and sail number, Owner's name, address and
club, Builder and date built, Name(s) of measurer(s) and date
measurement completed, Hull weight, number and weight of correctors,
mass moment of Inertia, position of hull centre of gravity, date
of issue and issuing authority. |
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| 2.3.3 |
Change of ownership invalidates
the certificate but shall not necessitate remeasurement. The
new owner shall apply to his/her NA for a new certificate, returning
the old certificate together with any re-registration fee that
may be required and stating the changed particulars. A certificate
may then be issued to the new owner. If there is a change of
NA, a new sail number in that nation's sequential series shall
be issued. The new owner and NA shall be provided with a certified
copy of the original measurement form. |
| 2.3.4 |
| (i) |
Subject to prior ISAF approval the
NA may delegate the administrative task of issuing sail numbers
and measurement certificates to the class national association.
The NA shall not delegate their overall responsibility to the
ISAF for control of measurement standards. |
| (ii) |
The administration of issuing certificates
shall be independent of the administration of measurement. |
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| 2.4 |
MEASUREMENT |
| 2.4.1 |
An official Measurer is a measurer
approved and authorised by a NA and/or IECU to measure International
Europe Dinghies and equipment. Only an official measurer or measurers,
shall measure a boat, spars, sail, foils and equipment. |
| 2.4.2 |
Boats shall be measured using templates
authorised by the ISAF. All sets of ISAF approved templates shall
be registered with the ISAF. A registration number shall be allocated
to each set of approved templates and shall be stamped on each
template of the set. |
| 2.4.3 |
A measurer shall not measure a boat,
spars, sails, foils or equipment owned, built or supplied by
him/her self, or in which he/she is an interested party or has
a vested interest. A measurer shall not compete in a boat or
with equipment which he/she has measured. |
| 2.4.4 |
The measurer shall enter all measurements
found in the `actual' column of the measurement form.
Any other form of entry is not acceptable. |
| 2.4.5 |
The measurer shall report on the
measurement form anything which he/she considers to be a departure
from the intended nature and/or design of the boat, or to be
against the general interest of the class. Any feature not clearly
permitted by these rules, the plans, the measurement diagrams
or measurement form must be assumed to be illegal and shall be
reported by the measurer on the measurement form. |
| 2.4.6 |
Notwithstanding anything in these
rules, on the evidence of a measurer's report and/or other information,
even if the specific requirements of the rules are satisfied,
the ISAF and/or NA shall have the power to refuse to grant a
certificate to, or to withdraw a certificate from, any boat. |
| 2.4.7 |
New, repaired or recut sails shall
be measured, or remeasured by an official measurer who shall
stamp, sign and date the sail across the IECU sail label. On
first measurement the dimensions found shall be entered on the
measurement form. |
| 2.4.8 |
Boats and equipment shall be liable
to remeasurement at the discretion of the ISAF, a NA or a race
committee. |
| 2.4.9 |
It is the owner's responsibility
to ensure that his/her boat, including foils, spars, sails and
equipment, complies with the class rules at all times and that
alterations or repairs do not invalidate the certificate. |
| 2.5 |
MEASUREMENT INSTRUCTIONS |
| 2.5.1 |
Except where otherwise specified
in these rules, the measurement diagrams, the plans and/or the
measurement form, the ISAF Equipment Rules of Sailing shall apply. |
| 2.6 |
IDENTIFICATION MARKS |
| 2.6.1 |
Each boat shall have:
| (i) |
permanently fixed on the starboard
side of the main bulkhead and clearly visible the official ISAF
ICF plaque or sticker. |
| (ii) |
the builder's company name clearly
shown on the hull on the inside face of the transom on the starboard
side. |
| (iii) |
its National letter(s) and sail
number engraved on the IYRU plaque or, for boats with IYRU/ISAF
stickers, permanently marked on a plate or sticker below the
IYRU/ISAF sticker. |
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| 2.6.2 |
Each sail shall have an IECU sail
label sewn on to the starboard side of the sail not more than
400mm from the tack. |
| 2.6.3 |
Each NA shall issue sail numbers
consecutively starting with 1. |
| 2.6.4 |
Each mast (at the gooseneck), boom
(at mast end), centreboard (near the top), rudder blade (near
the top) and rudder stock (near the top) shall have a unique
identifying code impressed on the starboard side by the manufacturer. |