On Saturday, February 23, 2013 4:35:57 PM UTC-5, Sean F (F2) wrote:
Nearly 60 signatures have been added to the petition for an FAI rues US Club Class. If you wish to add your signature, follow the link below. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/262/8...fb_connected=1 Sean F2

As part of preparing for the BOD meeting, and possible discussion of this topic,I did an analysis of the responses to the petition site. I used tha best data available to me, that is the SSA membership list, ranking list, and contest results. I did not go back more than 3 years. This was done 3 weeks ago and may be not completely current.
I found
56 responders
6 not SSA members
29 on the current ranking list and thus eligible to compete in US nationals
21 are known or believed to own or have ready availability of Club ships.
18 of those are IGC conforming.

As and update on current events, the US Club class was approved as part of the 2013 rules changes in Houston.
Currently the Mifflin contest has 14 entries in US Club of which 8 are on the IGC list. I'm hoping for 20 or more so we can continue to move toward Club becoming a class strong enough to be paired with classes other than Sports or, hopefully strong enough to stand on it's own.
UH