Kiel Week 2007 - Big boats on the way to Kieler Woche

For the bigger boats the Kieler Woche is one top events in nothern europe. The Kieler Woche is merged into the north european IMS ranking, paticipate to all Baltic Sea neighbours since 2006 including Norway. This is only possible by a uniform supranational handicapsystem.

IMS for the racing division, ORC-Club for the cruiser-racer
During Kieler Woche IMS will be used for the racing division and ORC-Club for the cruiser-racer. Both measurement systems are used in the whole Baltic Sea under the regulation of the Offshore Racing Congess (ORC), the association for all yachts in the world. 36 national sailing authorties from all over the world are attached to the ORC. They develope the IMS and ORC-Club rules in democartic way, handled by honorary organizations.

Demand of german yacht owners
The Kieler Woche follows the demand of the german yacht owners to use these rules. In questioning last winter, made by the german owner asscociation (RVS - 200 members) with interviews, most og them stated this demand. In history of the early 90th, it were the Kieler Yacht-Club (KYC), the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (NRV) and the Hamburger Segel-Club (HSC) which subsidized the IMS-System by lower entrance fees.

Great race without any measurement systems
Ranking rules will be always in the discussion of crews and owners, cause of they look for their performance in the rule itself. That is the reason why the Kieler Woche welcome as well one design classes like Beneteau 25, J-80, X-99, X-35 and Farr 40, to have great race without any measurement systems.

Source: kieler-woche.de

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