CHANGES TO

Australian Yachting Federation

2001 – 2004 Racing Rules of Sailing

Issued on 23 July 2001 as amendment No. 1

Racing Rules

Page 33 RRS 79

Delete existing A.Y.F. prescription and replace with the following:

The A.Y.F. prescribes that for 2001 - 2002:

The A.Y.F. provision for it’s Advertising License System as outlined in A.Y.F Addendum F is not applicable and the A.Y.F. requirements under 20.4.3 and 20.7.1 of the ISAF Advertising Code are also withdrawn during this period.

In accordance with 20.5.1 of the Code, the A.Y.F. has decided that unrestricted Category C advertising is permitted.

Page 100 Appendix 2 – ISAF Eligibility Code

ISAF announced the following changes for immediate effect on 6 May 2001:

21 ISAF ELIGIBILITY CODE

21.1 A competitor whose ISAF eligibility has been suspended or revoked shall not engage in any competition in the sport of sailing.

21.2 ISAF Eligibility Rules

To be eligible to compete in an event listed in 21.3.1, a competitor shall:

be governed by the regulations and rules of ISAF;

be a member of his/her Member National Authority or one of its affiliated organizations. Such membership shall be established by the competitor;

being entered by a national authority of the country of which the competitor is a national or ordinarily a resident; or

presenting a valid membership card or certificate, or other satisfactory evidence of identity and membership.

21.3 Events Requiring ISAF Eligibility

21.3.1 ISAF Eligibility is required for the following events:

(a) the sailing regatta of the Olympic Games;

(b) the sailing regattas of regional games recognized by the International Olympic Committee;

(c) events including “ISAF” in their titles;

(d) world and continental championships of ISAF classes and of the Offshore Racing Committee, Special Events and other events approved by ISAF as a World Championship;

(e) any event at which the Organizing Authority, Member National Authority or ISAF has appointed an International Jury, International Umpires, International Race Officer(s), International Measurer(s) or ISAF Technical Delegates to serve in the capacity to which they have been appointed for that event;

(f) any event approved by a Member National Authority of the ISAF as an Olympic qualifying event; and

(g) any event designated by a Member National Authority within its jurisdiction as requiring ISAF eligibility.

21.3.2 With the approval of the relevant Member National Authority, an Organizing Authority may also require ISAF eligibility for an event when so stated in the notice of race and sailing instructions.

Previous Regulations 21.3 – Suspension of ISAF Eligibility, 21.4 – Reports; Reviews, Notifications and Appeals, and 21.5 – Reinstatement of ISAF Eligibility, are unchanged, apart from being re-numbered accordingly.

Special Regulations

Page 146 Regulation 3.11(f)

Delete "not" in second paragraph under LOA column.

i.e. It should read “8.5m and over”.

Page 154 Regulation 3.26

Insert Categories 1 R.

Page 158 Regulation 4.04

Add under “Conditions” for Fire Blanket “Any boat required to carry a fire extinguisher.”

Page 162 Regulation 4.07 (h)

Panadeine Forte – Delete repeated row of categories.

Page 163 Regulation 4.07 (h)

Delete at the top of the page the repeated words from the previous page

"For varying degrees of pain" and "quantity".

Page 168 Regulation 4.24(d)

Insert Categories 1 2 3 4 5 R

Page 175 Appendix B clause 1.

Delete "on the wind" in line 1.

Page 186 Appendix D3

Third dot point – Amend D.3.03 and D.3.04 to read D.3.01 and D.3.02 respectively.

Fourth dot point – Amend D.3.04 to read D.3.02.

Page 172 Regulation 6.01

Delete text of existing Regulation 6.01 and replace with the following (still applies for Category 1 and recommended for category 2):

6.01 TRAINING

At least 30% of the crew including the skipper or sailing master (50% from 1 July 2002) shall have undertaken training and received a Certificate of Competence in both theoretical and practical sessions in accordance with the AYF Safety and Sea Survival Course (SSSC), or a Course of no less a standard acceptable to the organising authority that covers as a minimum, the following topics. The AYF strongly recommends that all crew members do likewise:

care and maintenance of safety equipment
liferafts
storm sails
fire precautions and fire fighting
damage control and repair
heavy weather - crew routines, boat handling, drogues
man overboard prevention and recovery
giving assistance to other craft
hypothermia
SAR systems
Using communications equipment (VHF, GMDSS, satcoms etc.)
weather forecasting
pyrotechnics – flares

The Certificate of Competence shall have a 5 year validity period. Revalidation shall be achieved by completing an update course and maintaining logged records of sea miles or Category 1 or 2 races in accordance with the SSSC. The practical wet drill and flare components need not be revalidated.