ORC 2025 AGM – 31 October to 4 November 2025 – Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland
2025 ORC AGM: Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
The Offshore Racing Congress's 2025 Annual General Meeting has concluded. The hybrid event, hosted at The Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, from October 31 to November 4, successfully brought together members both in-person and remotely.
All official minutes and meeting materials can be now accessed.
Latest news
The Viking Challenge: A New Flagship ORC Series for Northern Europe
13. Nov 2025
Northern Europe’s big boat racing scene is entering a new chapter with the launch of the Viking Challenge, a Scandinavian and Northern European ORC regatta series set to begin in 2026. The Viking Challenge is designed to provide a unified, high-performance racing platform for the region’s most ambitious teams, connecting several of Northern Europe’s leading offshore events into one competitive series.
Introducing ORC Light: A Simple, Entry-Level Certificate to Bring More Sailors into Racing
11. Nov 2025
The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), in cooperation with the Italian Sailing Federation (FIV) and the Italian Offshore Owners Association (UVAI), has introduced ORC Light, a simplified, entry-level handicap certificate designed to make it easier for boatowners new to racing to participate in local regattas.
ORC and Yacht Racing Forum: Strengthening the Future of the Sport
06. Nov 2025
With just a few weeks to go until the Yacht Racing Forum 2025, the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) encourages members of the international sailing and yacht racing community to register and take part in this important gathering. The Forum will be held 20–21 November in Amsterdam, and ORC is pleased to participate once again as an institutional partner.
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Laser Scanning Sails into the Yacht Racing World
Leica Geosystems
Along the west coast of Finland sits the historic town of Pietarsaari, where centuries-old maritime heritage and modernity meet in the world of contemporary yachting. Home to prestigious yacht builders Nautor Swan, Pietarsaari became the prime location for a pilot project in which yacht classification experts from the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) precisely measured, modelled, and rated a ClubSwan racing yacht using Leica Geosystems 3D laser scanning technology. In a novel approach that provides more data faster than ever before, scanning brings racing parity through accuracy, using innovation to promote fair competition in this historic sport.
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With an ORC Certificate you are getting more than just a rating #beyondrating
The ORC System
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The search for a perfect rating system is as old as sailboat racing itself. Boat owners, sailors, designers and handicappers are always looking for solutions that work as boat designs change with time. However, regardless of what rating system is actually in use, an ideal rating system should have a set of key point of features to ensure fair racing.
ORC Rating Systems are administered by the National Rating Offices established worldwide in each country that have active offshore rating. There are two forms of the rating systems that are fully compatible using the same measurements and the same VPP: ORC International (ORCi) and ORC Club. ORCi is based on a complete boat measurement.
It is the intention of any rating system to give a boat rating which depends on her characteristics in order to equalise her with other boats of different size and characteristics. Characteristics that are positive for boat speed, like length of the water line or sail area, and those that are negative, like beam, displacement and wetted surface, are the most common influences in any system.
With an ORC Certificate, you are getting more than just a rating. ORC Sailor Services allows you access to the ORC Database of all ORC certificates issued worldwide #beyondrating.
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