As the 2010 ORCi World Championship fleet readies itself for battle next week in Germany,the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) and organizers from the Sailing Club of Rijeka (SCOR) are already planning for next year’s ORC International World Championship in Cres, Croatia. More ...

After a week of light winds, Livorno woke up on the final day with a beautiful south-west breeze which touched 20 knots, conditions that allowed the Race Committee to conduct two perfect races for the 37 boats competing in two ORCi divisions of four classes of the 2010 Italian Offshore Championship. More ...

At the Audi MedCup in Cartagena, the GP42 Class has held a meeting to discuss plans for its future in the 2011 racing season, and beyond. In an effort to maximize participation and interest for next year, the class has decided to announce its 2011 season championship schedule prior to the next stage of the Audi MedCup in Cagliari. More ...

After a stunning day of extremely close racing in the final day of GP42 series racing, Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP) has emerged as the winner of the Caja Mediterráneo Region of Murcia Trophy, their second stage win in the 2010 Audi MedCup. The racing in the GP42’s was never closer. More ...

Brisk 16-20 knot conditions today blessed - and cursed – the GP42 teams today competing in Races 4-6 of the Caja Mediterráneo Region of Murcia Trophy in the 2010 Audi MedCup. Emerging on top for the first time in the 2010 season, AIRISESSENTIAL (ITA), driven by owner Roberto Monti (ITA). More ...

After yesterday’s no-wind conditions and another hour-long postponement today in hot, muggy conditions, racing in the Caja Mediterráneo Region of Murcia Trophy was finally underway for the GP42 Series in Stage 4 of the Audi MedCup. Three races were completed in a light 6-10 knot seabreeze. More ...

Stage 4 of the GP42 Series in the Audi MedCup will be underway shortly in Cartagena, as the postponement flag has been lowered and the teams are leaving the dock. Yesterday there was no racing for lack of wind, but today there is a seabreeze forecast for 8-12 knots, with race managers hoping for three races today. More ...

At 13:02:21 on 20 August Esimit Europe 2 crossed the finish line at Monte Carlo, setting a new race record in 48H 52M 21S, and winning the prestigious Trophy Giuseppe Tasca d'Almerita awarded to the first-to-finish yacht in the Palermo-Monte Carlo Race. Skipper Flavio Favini was satisfied with the result. More ...

In its first use of ORCi scoring for the 25th Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race, the Cruising YC of Australia announced Mark Bradford’s canting-keeled R/P 66 Black Jack (ex-Stark Raving Mad) won overall, with an impressive elapsed time of 1:09:33:04 over the 384-mile course. Among the sixteen entries scored in ORCi. More ...

The 2010 ORC Annual General Meeting will be held in Athens, Greece in November 2010. Deadline for the submissions proposed through ORC Nominating bodies is nine weeks before the meeting what is for 2010 AGM September 2nd. Submissions may be sent using on-line submission form. More ...

With just one month to go, preparations are accelerating towards the start of the 2010 ORC International World Championship, to be held from 5-12 September in Flensburg, Germany. To date 54 teams from 7 countries are entered for the event, which is being organized by the Flensburger Segel-Club. More ...

Now inside three weeks to the start, organizers from the Circolo della Vela Sicilia and the YC Monaco are expecting their biggest and best turnout yet for the sixth edition of the Palermo – Monte Carlo Race. This 500-mile race starting on 18 August is one of the races included in the Trofeo d’Altura del Mediterraneo. More ...

The International GP42 Association announces several innovations to the class rules that for the 2011 season and beyond will reduce operating costs while not compromising on the high-performance nature of the world’s fastest offshore-capable 42-footer. These include some structural changes to the boat. More ...

The last race in the GP42 Series of the Audi MedCup’s Camper Regatta - Conde de Godó Trophy – Barcelona saw the team that has dominated all week – Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP) – win their sixth race in the nine race series, nearly from start to finish. This despite having lost tactician/skipper Jose Maria van der Ploeg (ESP). More ...

After an interesting week of racing in one of the world’s most beautiful sailing venues, two teams have risen to the top of the ranks after eight races in South America’s largest regatta. Ernesto Breda’s B&C 46 Touche Super-Gol never got worse than 3rd place to dominate the nine-boat ORCi 500 Class. More ...

In another fabulous day of racing off the scenic backdrop of Barcelona, Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP) has had her winning streak of the past two days stopped in the GP42 Series of the Audi MedCup’s Camper Regatta - Conde de Godó Trophy – Barcelona, but she still maintains a 4-point lead. More ...

Pacing themselves nicely through a long day of delays, wind shifts and a slowly building breeze into the sunset, the Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP) team led by helmsman Paolo Cian (ITA) has had another phenomenal day in the GP42 Series of the Audi MedCup on scores of 1-2-1 for the day. More ...

Despite losing skipper/tactician Jose Maria van der Ploeg (ESP) to an ankle injury just prior to Race 1 today, Madrid Caser-Seguros (ESP) led by helmsman Paolo Cian (ITA) has taken the early lead in the Camper Regatta - Conde de Godó Trophy – Barcelona, Stage 3 of the Audi MedCup. More ...

On an impressive string of finishes which very nearly swept their class clean, Riccardo Di Bartolomeo’s Botin & Carkeek-designed Grand Soleil 42R0 MAN has won the 2010 ORCi European Championship in Class A, while Francesco Siculiana’s Massimo Paperini-designed Grand Soleil 40RC Alvarosky has won the title in Class B. More ...

After a long day of postponements and light sea breezes, race managers from the Lega Navale Italiano Cagliari chose to keep the 2010 ORCi European Championship fleet out until the early evening for three races yesterday in attempt to complete the schedule of seven inshore races. More ...

After a discouraging start to the series due to lack of wind, the ORC Sportboat European Championship finally yielded good breeze for good racing, and a new champion is crowned. After nine races with one discard, Vlas Kadetov's GP 26 Prima has won on an impressive scorecard of (10)-3-3-5-1-1-3-3-1 in the 25-boat fleet. More ...

After a mostly light air racing held around Gotland island in three different courses, winners in ORCi finally emerged last night. HM Harald V’s TP52 Fram XVI led from nearly start to finish in the 7-boat ORCi Class Charlie sailing the longest 458-mile course, while Lennart Evrell’s Beneteau 40.7 Aida came from behind. More ...

Race managers took advantage of the long summer daylight hours to get a late start to racing yesterday, adding another three scores to the results of the European ORC Sportboat Championship. This brings to 7 the races thusfar with one day of racing left, and a discard now available to the 25 teams entered in the event. More ...

39 boats have arrived at Sandhamn of which all 14 in the ORC Classic Baltic Race have finished, with Kerma as winner, led by skipper Claes Ahlin.On course Charlie only four boats have finished at Skanskobb: Fram XVI, Royal Blue, Camilla and Amber Sail. Of the 106 boats sailing course Alfa, 22 have finished. More ...

25 boats have gathered in St.Petersburg for the first ORC European Sportboat Championship in Russia. Several of them had to travel long distances, coming to the venue from as far away as Germany, Lithuania, and the Black Sea. The first part of the series has been plagued by lack of wind. More ...

Riccardo Di Bartolomeo’s Botin & Carkeek-designed Grand Soleil 42R0 MAN, with the help of America’s Cup tactician Tomasso Chieffi and an all-star team, has continued their unblemished winning streak in Class A, winning the long offshore race in the early hours of this morning at the 2010 ORCi European Championship. More ...

With 114 boats having reported rounding Östergarn on the eastern side of Gotland Island, class leaders are starting to emerge in the Eurocard Gotland Runt race, which started yesterday in Sandhamn, Sweden. This is the largest and most prestigious international race in the Baltic, attracting this year 235 entries. More ...

With a forecast of light winds and a waning land breeze, crews racing for the ORCi European Championship were on the dock early this morning to check weights and choose their lighter sails for the long offshore race ahead of them today. But within a few hours a light southerly seabreeze of 7-8 knots had filled for the fleet. More ...

This weekend, the Royal Malta Yacht Club will be organising the 50th Edition of the Malta Syracuse Race sponsored by AirMalta. They will also be celebrating half a century of this classic race which has managed to attract 104 sailing boats to the start line. "This is a remarkable time for the RMYC." said Georges Bonello DuPuis. More ...

Two teams experienced in light air and optimized for performance under ORCi handicapping have jumped out to an early lead in Day One of the 2010 ORCi European Championship. Riccardo Di Bartolomeo’s GS42R0 MAN and Francesco Siculiana’s GS40RC Alvarosky have taken two first-place bullets. More ...

Over 400 sailors participating on 34 teams representing four countries will be on the starting line tomorrow for the first day of the 2010 ORCi European Championship. Competition will run through Sunday, 11 July in the beautiful blue Sardinian waters off Cagliari’s Poetto beach, with the event organized by the Legale Navale Italiano. More ...

Team Germany has taken victory in the Audi Sardinia Cup 2010 – ISAF Offshore Team World Championship. The event, organized biennially by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and ORC since 1978, saw eight teams representing seven nations competing for the coveted Sardinia Challenge Trophy. More ...

Team Germany, composed of the Farr 40 Struntje Light owned by Wolfgang Schaefer and the Melges 32 Teasing Machine owned by Jean Francois Cruette, dominated today's coastal race and now sits at the top of the overall classification in the Audi Sardinia Cup - ISAF Offshore Team World Championship. More ...

Day Two of the Audi Sardinia Cup, organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and underway in Porto Cervo from 28th June to 3rd July, saw team Malta move to the top of the overall classification. The team is composed of the Farr 40 Enfant Terrible owned by Alberto Rossi, and the Melges 32 Rush Diletta. More ...

In a week of racing that included racing amongst a diverse variety of boat types competing in a wide range of conditions, Tim Kroger’s TP52 Audi A1 Team has won Kieler Woche in ORC I, while Philipp Rotermund’s Dehler 35 RS Hochwurden has won ORC II and Johann Friedrichsen’s X-332 Chinook was on top in ORC III/IV. More ...

With not enough wind on the last day of the ORC Open Croatian Championship, Race Committee did not have other option than to signal "AP over A" meaning there will be no more races today and making by that yesterday's results as final. The winners are Salona 42 "All 4 One" and M-37 "Escandalo". More ...

Slovak's don't just play good football but, regardless of not having sea, are feeling at home in Adriatic, and sailing well. "Quebramar" skippered by Peter Mosny won race 5 in Class A, while "Sixtynine" with Richard Schultz was the best in race 6 in Class B. Two more races are scheduled for the last day. More ...

It's not even certain that wind will blow in Cres every day. Yestreday there wasn't enough of it, or at least to have one race. Wind was blowing in morning hours. "Burin" of 7 to 15 knots. Even start was given. But wind was sufficient solely for first upwind and  first downwind leg. More ...

There was 50 nautical miles left until Cres, second leg of offshore race – from St. Martin’s bay in Lošinj until the Kovačine camp finish line in Cres. Passing the finish line between the buoy and small pier in St. Martin participants of offshore race the passed by the cemetery of the same name where winner from Olympics in Helsinki in 1952. More ...

The offshore race started. To Silba and back. Ideal 115 NM. In the beggining "bura" from 7 to 12 knots. With every mile it was strengthening up to 25 and perhaps a knot or two more. On Silba there was Robert Radola from "Jonathan RR" and he registered a gust of wind of 40 knots. Stormy wind. The whole way reaching. More ...

For a long time there has not been so wet or cold in Cres. Inhabitants say last 100 years. We have to beleive them. Only 15 degrees Celsius, for the first day of summer. Bojan Gale, principal Race Officer checked the "bura's" speed on the racing area with gusts of 33 knots. Cres is definitely destination where wind is blowing all the time. More ...

With no racing again today due to the Force 6-7 conditions out on the Rade Sud, Iberdrola (ESP) has managed to keep their two-point lead to win the Marseille Trophy in the GP42 Series, their first-ever Audi MedCup stage win. The bright green machine, led by skipper Laureano Wizner (ESP), has shown to be fast in light air. More ...

In a stunning reversal of yesterday’s mediocre results, Madrid-Caser Seguros (ESP) found their form in today’s wavy, breezy conditions to post an impressive 2-1-1 string of finishes in the GP42’s three races. This result has vaulted them from last to runner-up in the standings, and tightened the race in the 2010 Audi MedCup GP42 Series. More ...

The GP42 class has in the past lived in fear of the bright green Iberdrola (ESP), sailed by the Desafio America’s Cup team to devastating effect to dominate the class during its 2008 season. Most of that fear had dissipated over the last year as the newer boats had risen to the top. More ...

Alberto Franchella’s Comet 45S I Nova leads a combined ORC A and ORC B fleet of 88 boats in ORC scoring of the Rolex Giraglia Cup 2010. After three races, I Nova has an impressive score of 1-6-7, with the final 250-mile race to San Remo now underway which can be followed with on-line tracking system. More ...