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 Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, will host the ORC Annual General Meeting from October 31 to November 4, 2025. The ORC meeting will be a hybrid event this year, offering both in-person and remote attendance. Details about the conference will be available soon. The deadline for online submissions has been extended to September 15, 2025, from the initial date of August 29.
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Race to the Arctic 2026
30. Sep 2025
In June 2026, a new offshore event will be held along the Norwegian coast, designed to combine shorthanded racing with the experience of sailing through one of the world’s most scenic regions. Race to the Arctic 2026 will use the ORC measurement system and Weather Routing Scoring (WRS) to deliver fair and transparent scoring across a series of five stages.
Allegra takes Multihull Cup 2025 title as Falcon takes flight in final race
29. Sep 2025
The Multihull Cup 2025 was held from 25 to 28 September in the waters off Port Adriano (Mallorca). Four boats participated, showcasing four very different multihulls: ranging from the 45 ft foiling Falcon, the 65 ft Morelli & Melvin Gaea, to the Gunboat 72 Layla with a flying bridge, and the 84 ft high-performance cruiser Allegra.
ZEUS, SKELETON KEY and FEATHER are crowned 2025 ORC Pacific Coast Champions at the Rolex Big Boat Series
15. Sep 2025
With a three-hour-long Bay Tour race as the final test for competitors, the 61st edition of the Rolex Big Boat Series hosted by St. Francis Yacht Club came to a stunning close yesterday afternoon. The skippers at the top of the podium in the J/105 and ORC B classes were awarded coveted Rolex Submariner Dates. Bruce Stone and Nicole Breault’s ARBITRAGE came away victorious among the J/105s, the regatta’s largest fleet, and Peter Wagner’s J/111 SKELETON KEY was the victor in the ORC B division.
MIA GIOIA, COLOMBRE and ALTISSIMUS Are the 2025 ORC Double-Handed World Champions in Monfalcone
13. Sep 2025
Fifty-five teams representing ten nations gathered in the Gulf of Trieste this week for the ORC Double-Handed World Championship 2025, hosted by Yacht Club Monfalcone at Marina Monfalcone in collaboration with the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC).
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Laser Scanning Sails into the Yacht Racing World
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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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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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