Please find the Sailing Instructions for the EC 2017 in the PDF. EC2017-SailingInstructions

It has come to the attention of the IDNIYRA  and European governing committee that the 2014 vote to allow para aramid in the construction of tillers was conducted incorrectly.  It was only sent to ballot in north America and not in Europe.  This violates the specifications management agreement. The IDNIYRA Governing Committee and European Governing Committee, with the concurrence of the technical committee   have determined that the original vote allowing the use of Kevlar in the construction of tillers was not a legal vote.  Therefore this specification change is reversed.  Any member that constructed a tiller of para aramid  (Tradename Kevlar) shall notify the governing committee of their respective continent  …

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Dear Sailors, tonight I again looked after the problems some of you had when registering. They found themselves in a not ending loop after typing in their sail number and ID. This is not a bug of the entry procedure, this is due to the browser safety settings on the devices of the sailors. Browser of today sometimes prevent automatically the internal forwarding, sometimes it is set by the users, more or less with intend. The online entry programming cannot be adapted to the many browsers on the market in different versions and numerous different user settings. That would be a Sisyphus work. For the next season I will look …

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The “Dyneema Halyard” vote pass. The final counts are: Synthetic Halyard: Yes: 274 No: 21 Abstain: 18 Yes/No = 13:1 (2:1 required – Art. VIII Spec. Mgmt. Sys.) It comes into effect by Jan. 1st 2017 Think Ice, Godie

Dear friends, thx for patience, the minor bug is fixed now, you can use the Online Entry as usual. Think Ice, Godie DN-G4 Webmaster