[MHml] ISAF Multihull Offshore Regs

[Peter Lillywhite]

>I'd suggest contacting MOCRA directly. I'm sure they don't want to
>discourage people. Those latest regs look like they weren't fully
>reviewed by multihull experts, but MOCRA is full of them and RORC and
>RYA certainly have them!

I've been in discussion with Ben Goodland on the MOCRA forum along with
Tony Purser but despite our best efforts we seem to have made little
headway. I have been surprised at there apparent lack of knowledge of
the regs

>Is it not possible to mount a plank across the bottom of the doors up
to
>"the level of the local sheerline"? It does seem unlikely that your
>cockpit would be flooded on a coastal race! 

Ben suggested this solution but the washboards would be very long to
clear the doors when open and would give insufficient room to climb
through, we only have sitting headroom on the bridgedeck. In addition
according to my calculations our cockpit drain should clear the cockpit
in less than 5 seconds, in this time I estimate 35 litres could get
below, undesirable but not a safety issue.


>I didn't find that in the cat 4 multihull regs. Is it somewhere else?

The generator is included in the Cat2 regs, we were hoping to do the
RTBYC Triangle Race

>Having some means to hoist a jib if your roller reefing is damaged
seems
>sensible. Can you not hoist a storm jib on a spinnaker halyard, for
>example?

Totally agree and I am about to start discussions with a sailmaker to
make me a better storm jib which will work in the event of damage to the
jib or roller reefing system. ISAF require a storm jib and a heavy
weather jib that must not have reef points for Cat2 and just the HWJ for
Cat4 and no storm jib! I still reckon this is nonsense.

If you read through the MOCRA forum discussion you can read all the
various arguments on both sides. I still wonder if there are any
suitable regs in use that could be presented as a good model.

Cheers Peter.