Updated 6M Rules, Certification and Checklist

6M Owners,

Following on from the results of the class ballot held earlier this year, Graham Bantock, MYA Technical Officer, has revised the 6M class documents appertaining to the rules, measurement and certification of our 6M boats.

These documents are now available to use on the MYA 6M class website page.

Below is an overview from Graham of the process to date and how it can proceed going forward. Please pay special attention to the final paragraph regarding the way certification can be implemented and by whom. I would like to thank Graham for his work on this. We now have a firm rule base with greater clarity that will take us forward for years to come.

I hope we will see a further wave of boatbuilding and refurbishment over the winter with more measured and certified 6 Metres on the water at events up and down the UK.

Shaun Holbeche

Class Captain.

The MYA website page for the 6M class has been updated with the revised class rules, certificate and check list which completes the work required to bring the class rules fully up to date after the ballot of 6M COG members. 

The 2017 version of the class rules contained many errors and omissions that needed correction and needed bringing into line with the current ERS and other related technical rules. As an emergency measure an interim version was issued without consultation with the owners. In 2025 a ballot of the owners was conducted to establish their preferences concerning the class rules and the current class rules are listed here. If you participated, thanks for your input to this.

Measurers and owners should know that nothing concerning the way in which boats are certified has changed except that boats, except their sails, can be certified by a class measurer who is not an Official Measurer. Sails continue to be certified by an Official Measurer (anyone listed as a Sail Measurer on the MYA website).