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Hi John, I have a copy of the 1993-1996 Casebook. My copy was in a binder, not coil bound. A scanned copy is on my website https://www.yachtracingrules.ca/appeal-and-casebooks If you browse around that site you can see that I am also interested in old rulebooks and casebooks, thus I am not willing to part with the original. If you have any earlier versions scanned, I can add them to the site.
JIm, My feeling is that sometimes it's worth while going back to the pre 1961 NAYRU and IYRU/RYA rules and looking at the 1961 merge, but, particularly given the stability of the RYA/IYRU rules, it's not worth while going much further back.
Do you think the Canoe rules have had much significant influence on the ordinary rules?
I don't know to be honest. Canoe racing (which started off with sailing rather than paddling) predates dinghy racing, but post dates the very earliest yacht racing. When one looks at those rules it's evident that one is seeing the ancestors of much of the current rule set. However my guess - I haven't gathered evidence - is that it probably only means that there was something of a consensus between different clubs in the sports as to what racing rules should look like, and there was copying and cross fertilisation going on. But 1910 is as early as I found in RCC archives, and by that date the sport was already decades old.
I have a copy of the 1993-1996 Casebook. My copy was in a binder, not coil bound. A scanned copy is on my website https://www.yachtracingrules.ca/appeal-and-casebooks If you browse around that site you can see that I am also interested in old rulebooks and casebooks, thus I am not willing to part with the original. If you have any earlier versions scanned, I can add them to the site.
I've now got some new 'pillow case' reading to do.
The only historical scan that I've got is the 1944 Vanderbilt Rules, which is attached.
I could also do a scan of the 1947 IYRU/RYA rules pamphlet I have if you would like that?
https://intcanoe.org/sharedimages/documents/ichistory-rcc1910rulebookextracts.pdf
Do you think the Canoe rules have had much significant influence on the ordinary rules?