Stories about Isaf Council
Below are the latest stories which have been categorised as being about Isaf Council.
Hobie Class round up of May news
Posted 4 months, 8 days ago by BYM Sailing News
In May, the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) met in Qingdao, China to discuss their decision to remove the multihull from the 2012 Olympics. It was a disappointing decision from the ISAF Council. They did not reverse their decision from November ... more »
ISAF reports on its Mid Year meeting in Qingdao
Posted 4 months, 29 days ago by Sail World Australia
Yesterday's opening meeting of the ISAF Council, focused on financial issues, submissions and event matters more »
ISAF reports on its Mid Year meeting in Qingdao
Posted 4 months, 29 days ago by Sail World UK
Yesterday's opening meeting of the ISAF Council, focused on financial issues, submissions and event matters more »
ISAF credibility at stake in crucial Olympic vote
Posted 4 months, 29 days ago by Sail World UK
Darren Bundock believes some gains were made at the ISAF Council Meeting more »
ISAF credibility at stake in crucial Olympic vote
Posted 4 months, 29 days ago by Sail World Australia
Darren Bundock believes some gains were made at the ISAF Council Meeting more »
ISAF credibility at stake in crucial Olympic vote
Posted 4 months, 29 days ago by Sail World UK
Darren Bundock believes some gains were made at the ISAF Council Meeting more »
Women's Match Racing in 2012 Olympic Games
Posted 4 months, 29 days ago by Yachte.com.au
At the ISAF mid-year meeting in Qingdao, China, the ISAF Council voted to keep the events that were selected last November in Estoril, Portugal. What does this decision mean? Women's Keelboat - Match Racing will be one of the 10 events in the 2012 Olympic Games in Weymouth, Great Britain.
There are still many decisions to be made and the WIMRA Governing Council will continue to work to ensure that the women sailors' opinions are heard. more »
Women's Match Racing in 2012 Olympic Games
Posted 4 months, 29 days ago by Yachte.com.au
At the ISAF mid-year meeting in Qingdao, China, the ISAF Council voted to keep the events that were selected last November in Estoril, Portugal. What does this decision mean? Women's Keelboat - Match Racing will be one of the 10 events in the 2012 Olympic Games in Weymouth, Great Britain.
There are still many decisions to be made and the WIMRA Governing Council will continue to work to ensure that the women sailors' opinions are heard. more »
(Still) No Multihulls for the Olympics
Posted 5 months ago by Live Sail Die
Reports from the ISAF Council Meeting in Qingdao, China, indicate that the International Sailing Federation has not changed its earlier stance over the exclusion of the Multihull events from the 2012 Olympics. The reports we have are of the chain of events is as follows: Thursday PM - the events committee has not reafirmed the Council decision [...] more »
ISAF Events Selection
Posted 5 months, 1 day ago by Yachte.com.au
Thank you for signing the e-petition to IOC. The response has been amazing, exceeding 6000 signatures in the six months since it was started after the last ISAF Council meeting. To put that in perspective, it compares with 7200 for a really serious issue such as Troops out of Iraq. You have also been invaluable help in persuading first the RYA to take the lead, then Yachting Australia and New Zealand to follow and now a record 15 countries to make formal submissions to ISAF in only 10 days before the March 15th deadline. more »
ISAF Events Selection
Posted 5 months, 1 day ago by Yachte.com.au
Thank you for signing the e-petition to IOC. The response has been amazing, exceeding 6000 signatures in the six months since it was started after the last ISAF Council meeting. To put that in perspective, it compares with 7200 for a really serious issue such as Troops out of Iraq. You have also been invaluable help in persuading first the RYA to take the lead, then Yachting Australia and New Zealand to follow and now a record 15 countries to make formal submissions to ISAF in only 10 days before the March 15th deadline. more »
Time to Do the Right Thing
Posted 5 months, 1 day ago by Sail Juice
This weekend is crunch time in Qingdao. All multihull fanatics wait to see what ISAF Council decides this weekend in China, if indeed the Olympic Events for Weymouth 2012 will come up for reconsideration. ISAF’s decision not to publish the 15 submissions on this topic from national authorities and class associations was disappointing, another sign that [...] more »
Aussies make their case to ISAF
Posted 6 months, 29 days ago by Sail Juice
Phil Jones, head of Yachting Australia, had just made his submission to ISAF to get the Olympic Classes vote for 2012 reconsidered as soon as possible. Phil makes a powerful case. Whereas Jerome Pels believes it would be disrespectful for ISAF Executive to question the original vote cast by ISAF Council last November, Phil makes [...] more »
Perfuming the pig...
Posted 7 months, 8 days ago by Rule 69 Blog
There's an old saying that if you were to design an animal by committee, then you would end up with a camel so it's with some interest that I opened Scuttlebutt this morning to read the diatribe against Andy Rice and people making "points of order." The problem is that the points of order are exactly the root cause of the problem. Listen to this: "We also advised the President that it is for the Executive Committee alone to decide if a submission is urgent. It is not correct that the Constitution Committee advised that the selection issue is not urgent. We did not address that question. It was not our place to do so."
Oh for goodness sake. Can't you see that this is exactly where sailing stalls head to wind? "Not me Guv'nor...if it's not on the agenda we can't mention it!" Absolute nonsense! And then I took a look at the ever hilarious ISAF website to try and find out just how stuffed to the gills with committees our governing body is - it is absolutely astounding!
There's the ISAF Council, audit committee, development committee, events committee, match racing committee, race officials committee, regional games committee, executive committee, constitution committee, equipment committee, ISAF classes committee, offshore committee, racing rules committee, windsurfing committee, review board committee and even archive committees! Then you have at least 19 working parties with committee-style panels and heaven-knows how many sub-committees....
Goldman Sachs doesn't even have that much governance and they've got real teeth in the banking world. ISAF is a toothless entity stuffed to the gills with 'yes' men whose decision making ranks with George Bush and Tony Blair. And then when anyone says anything, they all run around writing into blog sites making "points of order" and saying that "biased and inaccurate postings aren't constructive"...well excuse me, cramming as many retirees as possible onto committees to debate the price of peas is hardly "constructive." Look at the dull Olympics, look at the cowboys banning people from sailing on lakes in Switzerland, look at the furore every time the word ISAF is mentioned, look at the boring stuck-in-the-60's courses and did I mention how dull the Olympics is...You can't perfume the pig.
ISAF needs a massive streamlining....
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ISAF celebrate 100 years by showing their true colours
Posted 8 months, 16 days ago by Another Midlife Crisis
It would be remiss of me not to join the growing outcry over the ISAF council decision of the events for the 2012 Olympics in Weymouth, England. While many cat sailors remain in their insular little world, feeling the whole world is against them (no cat event in 2012), the big picture is that high performance sailing in general was treated to a loud 2 fingered salute. If ever ISAF showed how self centred and out of touch many of the council members are, this was the time. This isn't democracy at work, this is cronyism and self interest of the worst order and has to arte as the most shameful action I know of by ISAF.
Great way to celebrate 100 years of serving the sailing community! more »
The African Problem
Posted 9 months, 4 days ago by Sail Juice
We haven’t forgotten about Estoril and the debate that was raging across the internet before Christmas. Behind the scenes, some national authorities are still working hard on reopening the Olympic classes vote this May. I received an interesting list of which ISAF Council members are for and against reopening the debate the other day, but [...] more »
PRESSURE BUILDING FOR AN ISAF REVOTE
Posted 9 months, 16 days ago by Matchrace.ch
Source: sailjuiceblog.com
A letter from outgoing ISAF president Arve Sundheim to members of ISAF Council suggests there is unlikely to be a reconsideration of the Olympic events vote taken in Estoril back in early November. Click here to download a pdf of the letter: sailjuiceblog.files.wordpress.com Sundheim defends the voting procedure and claims that ISAF paid due consideration to the IOC's requirements. But pressure is building from national authorities to get a revote next May at the ISAF mid-year meeting in Qingdao. Following Yachting Australia's and the Royal Yachting Association's open requests for a revote, Yachting New Zealand is now also looking to do the same, according to a report on Sail World. Talking of strategy, that is the point that Rod Carr wanted to get across when I spoke to the RYA chief exec earlier today. "We want to see ISAF getting away from 'sticking plaster' politics and taking a more strategic approach to the future of the sport," he said. "That's why we're doing what we're doing. Even if ISAF said 'match racing is part of our strategy', we might not agree with it but we would at least go along with it, if that was part of a strategy that had been properly thought through." Carr has had a number of conversations with other national authorities behind the scenes, and is confident that sufficient momentum is building towards a revote next May. Among other nations that are believed to have written to ISAF are Canada, Spain, Austria and Singapore. A few others, like France, have yet to decide whether or not to follow suit. Meanwhile, the members of the ISAF Athletes Commission are weighing up the possibility of running a questionnaire of all the competitors in the 2008 Olympic class World Championships, most of which are taking place in Australia or New Zealand in the next two months. If they go ahead with this, it will be interesting to see how Olympic sailors themselves would choose the classes for 2012. We had some indication of that in the SailJuice survey a few weeks ago, although the sample of Olympic sailors was perhaps not sufficient to draw any hard conclusions. more »
Pressure building for an ISAF Revote
Posted 9 months, 22 days ago by Sail Juice
A letter from outgoing ISAF president Arve Sundheim to members of ISAF Council suggests there is unlikely to be a reconsideration of the Olympic events vote taken in Estoril back in early November. Click here to download a pdf of the letter: isaf-sundheimresponse11dec07.pdf Sundheim defends the voting procedure and claims that ISAF paid due consideration to the [...] more »
Royal Yachting Association leads call for Olympic rethink
Posted 10 months, 6 days ago by BYM Sailing News
The Royal Yachting Association is leading the push to have the Events for the 2012 Olympic Games reconsidered by the International Sailing Federation. Following the controversial decision by ISAF Council during its annual conference last month, at which it ... more »
Just Five to get a Revote?
Posted 10 months, 10 days ago by Sail Juice
In the current post-Estoril climate, could you imagine five nations banding together to call for an emergency meeting of ISAF Council? Apparently, ISAF’s Constitution allows for just such a thing to take place, and it doesn’t seem beyond the bounds of possibility that this could happen. We have already heard from some National Authorities who feel [...] more »
