2025 ERCU Rule Book Changes Posted for Member Vote

The 2025 ERCU rules process is ready for member review and vote.

With many thanks to the Competition Committee (Chair: Gerry Bordon, Mike Hughes, Jay Fonville, Tom Markos & Jim Latimer), recommendations were forwarded to the Board of Directors which ratified the changes and is setting them forward for member review and a vote.

The ERCU Board of Directors 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 navigate and find what you're looking for. 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 as PDF files for member review via links on the ballot page. 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.).

In addition to the requested vote on the rulebook (with changes noted in the PDFs of the three documents), members are asked to vote on a rule change pertaining to the definition of classes. 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.

Click here to see the ballot page.

The member vote will be open through 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. Once the membership has voted, the updated rule book documents will be posted to the website and the online rule book will be updated as well. The club will also email PDFs of the the 2025 rule book to each member of the club once it's approved and updated.