Based on recommendation from the Competition Committee, and unanimous concurrence by the ERCU Board of Directors, these are the proposed changes to the ERCU Rule book to be in effect beginning with the 2025 ERCU Racing Season. Please vote yes or no to each proposed change.

    Please complete the yes-no answers to the proposed rule changes below. Thank you for your participation in ERCU, and for sharing your voice in the way the club is run. Your feedback is important.
    RULE BOOK FORMAT

    The ERCU Board of Directors has received significant feedback that the rule book needed to be updated for more accuracy in the rules, elimination of redundancies, and making it easier to find rules. The format has been updated and modeled after H1 Unlimited's 2024 rule book, divided into three documents including the Racing Rules; Technical Manual; and General Rules. None of the three documents are longer than seven pages.

    No rules were changed arbitrarily in this process, and the Competition Committee's recommendations have been incorporated into the changes within the documents below for your review.

    Each of the manuals, with edits, are provided for member review. In the case of deletions, the deletion was made when a rule was redundant or obsolete (i.e. CD duties have evolved over club history; some rules were listed twice in different places, etc.)

    GENERAL RULES (pdf)
    RACING RULES (pdf)
    TECHNICAL MANUAL (pdf)
    The ERCU Board of Directors and Competition Committee recommend approval of the rule book, broken into three different documents, as proposed.
    CLASSES:

    CURRENT RULE: Section D in current rule book.
    • There shall be two divisions within ERCU: 1/10-scale and 1/7-scale
    • Each division will support three classes;
      1. Vintage: The vintage class is defined as displacement, step, pre-1950 Ventnor 3-point, and all boats with a round nose, typical of the design of boats in the 1950s and 1960s.
      2. Classic: The classic class will be all picklefork boats that ran with piston power, typical of the boats in the 1970s and 80s, including the 1980 four-point Miss Circus Circus.
      3. Modern: The modern class will be all boats that incorporate a picklefork configuration running with turbine power, typical of most boats starting in the 1990s and running to the present, including the four-point 1994 Miss Elam.
    • Classic and modern class boats will run together in the same class at all races until such a time that there are consistently has enough boats in each class to be able to have two sections for each class (minimum three each) to justify running split classes for an event.

     
    PROPOSED REPLACEMENT FOR SECTION (BECOMES SECTION A IN GENERAL RULES)
    1. There shall be two divisions within ERCU: 1/10-scale and 1/7-scale
    2. Each division will support three classes;
      1. Vintage: The vintage class is defined as displacement, step, pre-1950 Ventnor 3-point, and all boats with a round nose, typical of the design of, but not limited to, boats in the 1950s and 1960s.
        1. INCLUDED are the following roundnose boats that have been converted to a picklefork configuration (i.e. Hull #6544: 1968 Gales Roostertail, 1969 Miss Schweppes, 1971 Towne Club, 1973 Valu-Mart, 1973 My Cupiee; Hull #6404 Harrah’s Club; Hull #6615: 1983 Miss Dobson, The Mover; Hull #6925 1969 Pride of Pay 'n Pak Outrigger).
        2. EXCLUDED are any roundnose boat with an outboard skid fin, stepped sponsons and/or other modifications from the above vintage definition (i.e. Hull #6708: 1978-79 Miss Van’s PX, 1980 U-80 (no name), 1980-82 Don Campbell’s Food Service, 1982 Bob Patterson Special; 1983 Chet’s Music Shop, Miss Crab Legs, Specialty Leasing, 1984 Modern Hard Chrome, Patterson Special, Kawaguchi Travel, Houston Gold Cup ’85, 1986 Miss Bahia, 1987 Miss Crab Legs, Miss Bahia, Lighthouse Inn & Resort).
      2. Classic: The classic class will be all picklefork boats that ran with piston or turbine power, typical of, but not limited to, the boats in the 1970s and 80s, including the four-point 1980 Miss Circus Circus.
        1. INCLUDED: Any roundnose boat with an outboard skid fin, stepped sponsons, and/or other modifications from the above vintage definition (i.e. Hull #6514: 1965 Tomyann, and Hull #6708: 1978-79 Miss Van’s PX, 1980 U-80 (no name), 1980-82 Don Campbell’s Food Service, 1982 Bob Patterson Special; 1983 Chet’s Music Shop, Miss Crab Legs, Specialty Leasing, 1984 Modern Hard Chrome, Patterson Special, Kawaguchi Travel, Houston Gold Cup ’85, 1986 Miss Bahia, 1987 Miss Crab Legs, Miss Bahia, Lighthouse Inn & Resort).
      3. Modern: The modern class will be all boats that incorporate a picklefork configuration running with turbine power or piston power (i.e. U-3 Cooper boat) and with enclosed cockpits, typical of most boats starting in the 1990s and running to the present, including the four-point 1994 Miss Elam.
    3. The classic and modern classes shall run together until such time as a vote of the membership determines there are enough to allow the classes to run separately. Until that time, each class’s season championship points shall be totaled together as a single modern class.


    A request to "fix" this rule was submitted to the Board and then to the Competition Committee by a number of members requesting specificity and accuracy of representation of boats running in each class. The Competition Committee asked that the board make a recommendation on this to the membership. The Board of Directors recommends passage.
    The ERCU Board of Directors and Competition Committee recommend approval of the rule book, broken into three different documents, as proposed.
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