Committee meeting announcement:
"ISAF Executive Committee Meeting
"© ISAF, Chantilly, France, 10 February 2005
"Opening the meeting, ISAF President Göran PETERSSON emphasised the goal of focusing
on what really matters in the sport and developing a strategy for sailing.
....snip...
"World Speed Sailing Record Council – in considering recognition of kite surfing
within the speed sailing arena, significant safety concerns continued to be expressed. At this stage,
ISAF does not give endorsement to recognizing kite powered crafts as holders of the World Sailing Speed Record."
http://www.sailing.org/default.asp?ID=j19Fht?qw&format=popup
Please note that the wording of the ban doesn't limit it to kitesurfers, nor to
500 meter "extreme" speedsailing. This ban apparently seeks to ban ALL kites from EACH of the 165+ events and point-to-point open ocean records which WSSRC oversees.
ISAF, 25 February 2005
The following statement is to clarify ISAF's position in respect of kites and the outright World Sailing Speed Record - 500 metre course.
At the ISAF Executive Committee meeting of 5-7 February 2005, ISAF considered a request from the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSR) on whether a 'kite' could establish and claim the outright World Sailing Speed Record. The position of ISAF is that, at this stage, a claim on the outright World Sailing Speed Record by a kite would not be endorsed. Kite records will continue to be ratified by the WSSR Council in sail area divisions and kite speed sailing events will be observed and monitored as normal. Kite records have their own section on the WSSR website
To clarify the WSSR Council position concerning kite surfing, WSSR Rule 2 states that, in addition to the World Sailing Speed Record (the outright record), records can be established in the following sail area divisions: 10sq.m, A Class, B Class, C Class, D Class, and a division for sailboards with kite sails.
ISAF recognizes the World Sailing Speed Record Council as the international authority responsible for ratifying World Sailing Speed Records.
