Sculling in 20 knots of wind, bearing away on the weather mark? I wonder what sport the jury understands, it is most definitely not sailing. The sailor asked for redress but was ignored and dismissed. In another incident, the jury yellow flagged a sailor for sculling in 20 knots, when he was simply moving his rudder to bare away after the weather mark, and as his bow did in fact bare away to leeward, as he took off on the reach. That is 14 points in just that race, and at least half those points obtained in an extremely short downwind leg she 'won' the title by a mere four point margin.Īs Lim was on port pumping away and a jury boat approached, she immediately jibed her boat to starboard to get away, and hid her movements with the boats' heeled hull, and kept sailing at much higher speed than the fleet, in flat seas and no wind, which, as any sailor knows, is simply impossible with a force one wind strength, as the jury (who was between me and the sailor) ignored it completely and instead kept focusing and giving penalties to the very last boats in the fleet. as the PRO simply refused to submit to IODA's blackmail 'tactics' (I could go on and on but the point is to illustrate, not create a soap opera environment).īut even more importantly, because the IODA 2011 World Champion Kimberley Lim of Singapore, cheated her way to individual victory! I saw in disgust how she pumped her way downwind after rounding the weather mark, around sixteenth in race seven, and ended up in 2nd place on that race. As a result, a lot of screaming took place onboard the committee boat. Third, because IODA interfered and demanded the Principal Race Officer and the race committee to do what IODA wanted, and if they didn´t they would have simply cast them aside, which they threatened to do on more than one occasion. Speaking of 'officials' we can only wonder why at least some of these officials also represent and sell all kinds of equipment and boats, as if that doesn´t constitute a blatant conflict of interests IODA refuses to acknowledge that, in fact it states it's run by two or three people only, the rest are 'volunteers'. Turkey, Brasil, Malaysia and now New Zealand saw almost all races run with wind of force one. This was the fourth consecutive year the IODA Worlds had no wind. Second, because it runs its pinnacle event based on the criteria that its officials have a great time off the water, suffice it to say this year's best day for sailing was the lay day, but IODA officials were very busy visiting the local vineyards and wineries, and it was simply impossible to change that (the event completed only 11 of the 15 scheduled races). I just fail to see how these current IODA practices encourage sailing, or help in ISAF's efforts, initiatives and directives for sailing.) (I remind the readers that the construction drawings for the Optimist dinghy can be obtained for free as the designer has forfeited his royalty rights. A sail costs 500 euros, a competitive boat costs around 4 to 5 thousand euros, and a daily charter alone costs 75 euros, with the various suppliers having all agreed to fix prices. IODA continues to ignore ISAF's repeated recommendations to lower cost, and indeed, costs keep rising every year. After having been part of the International Optimist Dinghy Association (IODA) as a parent for over a decade with two sons, and traveling with one of my sons who represented Portugal at the 2011 IODA World Championship which was completed Monday in Napier, New Zealand, I have to conclude that IODA does great damage to sailing.įirst, because IODA has become a ruthless business enterprise owned by an investment fund, charging outrageous prices for the events and the equipment charters.
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