Andy Trewin (UK) has very kindly donated his slideshow to the website. He has been using these slides to give presentations popularizing the Footy class at various sailing clubs in the UK. It's now a permanent part of this website, just click the Slideshow tab at the top of this page!

The results from a recent poll of registered Footy skippers concerning rig restrictions are in. According to this ballot:

• There is no restriction on how many sail rigs may be used
• There is no restriction on the 'B' rig dimensions

As in all model sailboat racing classes, the rules are a balance between innovation and racing skill. In larger yacht classes a skipper with enough money for multiple sail rigs could dominate skippers who couldn't afford so many, but in the Footy class rigs are cheap. In addition, with a young class like the Footy, we may have yet to discover the ideal rig, so encouraging innovation is a good thing.

The Footy Euro GP 2009 regatta was held Sat/Sun, 18-19 July at the Birkenhead MYC in the UK. Of particular interest was the presence of a contingent from Poland and the dominance of a boat called Moonshadow. Read all about it in the full Race Report provided by Angus Richardson.

Pawel Dejnak sent me email about his new Footy design, the "Opalek". The plans are published in the current issue of Mlody Technik ("young technician"). For a month you can see them on-line at the magazine's website in the June 2009 issue. The text is in Polish, but it's chock-full of nice photos.

Brett McCormack (New Zealand) has announced the 2009 Postal Classic. In this race skippers from around the world race for the best times around a standard course. You can race any time in the month of July but be sure to email your results to Brett by July 31st! For complete details, see the Racing tab which has a link to his announcement.

Thanks, AMYA Footy skippers, for your participation in the recent Footy rules ballot. The results were 83 in favor of the change, with 2 against. That means AMYA is back in sync with the international rules, and will remain in sync unless we decide to have an exception.

The new rules take effect immediately. They can be found here on this website.

I'll get the AMYA Footy webpage updated to reflect the change as soon as possible. Thanks to everyone for the great response and for your help.

Bill Hagerup

The results of last year's voting have been incorporated into a new set of rules for the Footy class. You can find them here.

Adopted by the International Committee as having been properly conducted. (To see the seven page ballot, click here).

PART 1	Proposal	About	YES	NO
pass	1	rudder exception	86	5
pass	2	wind indicator	88	2
pass	3a	set of rigs	72	17
pass	3b	change of sail area	64	25
pass	4	radio control	90	1
pass	5	ballast density	87	3
PART 2
pass	6	batteries	47	44
pass	7a	rudder proposal	55	34
pass	7b	multiple rudder	29	9
fail	8a	3 set of rigs	31	58
fail	8b	3 set with limits	12	19
pass	8c	2 rigs no 305 mm limit	27	15
fail	8d	unrestricted choice	15	20

Registered Footy skippers should be getting email from their national registrars concerning proposed changes to rules defining the Footy class. A seven page PDF file describes the various proposals in detail. Skippers should reply to their registrar's email with a simple text message with the ballot item numbers and a "yes"/"no" vote beside each. Responses must be received by Dec. 7th, so if you don't hear from your registrar soon, go ahead and email him with your votes anyway. The email addresses of the registrars are on the Register page of this website.

The rules for the 2008 Chris Dicks Design Competition have been released. Click here to see their announcement as a PDF file. Although primarily a UK event, the results are always interesting and we usually get some pictures.