ICRA has issued its final agenda for Saturday's packed conference in Kilkenny with confirmation that there will be 12 different presentations on the day including UCD's account of its world championship win in La Rochelle last month, Damian Foxall on Volvo Ocean Race developments, Race Officer Jack Roy's insight on race management at the Olympic Games, ICRA's boat of the year and the electino of a new ICRA commodore. The conference starts at 10.30am in the Newpark hotel in Kilkenny and is open to all sailors to attend. The full agenda is below and in pdf format for download below too.
AGENDA
ICRA - ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2012, NEWPARK HOTEL KILKENNY
SATURDAY 17TH NOVEMBER – 10.30AM TO 4.30PM
Barry Rose - Commodore
Members of Executive Committee
Barry Rose, Commodore. Norbert Reilly, Vice-Commodore. Fintan Cairns, Treasurer. Denis Kiely, Secretary. Michael Murphy, PR. Ed Alcock, ISA. Peter Beamish. Richard Colwell. Chris Howard. Simon McGibney. Mark Mills. Peadar Murphy. Peter Ryan. Vincent O'Shea. Brian O'Sullivan. Ian Travers.
MORNING SESSION - 10:30-13:00
ANNUAL REPORT – BARRY ROSE, COMMODORE ICRA
Review of 2012 cruiser racing season followed by discussion. 15 mins – to finish by 11:00
FINANCIAL REPORT – FINTAN CAIRNS, TREASURER – 10 mins
APPOINTMENT OF NEW COMMODORE – NORBERT REILLY. – 20 mins
Norbert will make a short presentation on the role of ICRA
Introduce cruiser racing training project
REVIEW OF 2012 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS HOSTED BY HYC, 25-27 MAY
Richard Colwell to present skipper survey report.
PROGRESS REPORT AND DISCUSSION ON PLANS FOR 2013 NATIONALS TO BE HELD IN TRALEE – 20 mins - Brian o'Sullivan
Notice of Race - issued
Discards and number of races
Mix and Length of courses/races? 1.15 -1.30 typical duration. One long – 3-4 hr – race?
Corinthian Cup and Non-spinnaker racing
Prizes and Prize giving
Feeder Races to ICRA Nats in Tralee? From Dublin, Cork and Galway? perhaps in conjunction with Dun Laoighaire-Dingle
VENUES FOR NEXT CYCLE OF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, 2014-2020 – NEW VENUES TO BE CONSIDERED.
Principles - Event is stand-alone and all suitable venues will be considered.
To consider presentations from interested clubs.
RATING AND HANDICAPPING – REPORT FROM IRC CONGRESS 2012
COMMODORES' CUP – THE FUTURE
Full-on Challenge
Progress report on establishment of offshore cruiser racing training program
ALL-IRELAND HELMSMANS CHAMPIONSHIP
Discussion on new nomination system introduced in 2012
JACK ROY [INTERNATIONAL RACE OFFICER] ON THE WEYMOUTH OLYMPICS – 12:30
An opportunity to exchange ideas with a leading Race Officer on developments on cruiser race management, course types etc.
AFTERNOON SESSION – 14:00-16:30
UCD STUDENT CRUISER WORLD CHAMPIONS PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION BY IAN TRAVERS ON PREPARATION & RACING OF ¼ TON TYPE BOATS
'Small boat sailing with a focus on finding, rebuilding and IRC optimising a 'worn out' Quarter Tonner.'
