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. Online submissions will be accepted through our online form starting at the end of June.
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2025 Garmin ORC World Championship Starts Tomorrow with Long Offshore Race
10. Aug 2025
After a final day of preparation, a practice race, and opening ceremonies today, the crews in the assembled fleet of 65 teams from 9 nations entered in the 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship are ready for racing tomorrow, Monday, August 11th. This is the first of six days of competition that concludes on Saturday, August 16th.
2025 Garmin ORC World Championship poised to start in Tallinn
09. Aug 2025
Over the last few days, teams and their boats entered in the 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship have been arriving at the new marina facilities at Kalev Yacht Club and the Tallinn Olympic Yachting Centre for their registration and inspection formalities to prepare for six action-packed days of inshore and offshore racing starting on Monday August 11th and concluding on Saturday August 16th.
The 2025 ORC European Champions Celebrated at the 43rd Copa del Rey MAPFRE in Palma
03. Aug 2025
The 2025 ORC European Championship, contested at the 43rd Copa del Rey MAPFRE, concluded with the Bay of Palma delivering sparkling sailing conditions for a fitting finale, which saw three of the four division titles decided on the last race. The final standings saw VESPER (USA) win ABANCA ORC 0, TECHNONICOL (EST) top Ubico ORC B, and Spanish teams ESTRELLA DAMM and NUNOTO CAFIVER take the titles in Sail Racing ORC A and Uber ORC C, respectively.
ORC European Champions to Be Decided at the 43rd Copa del Rey MAPFRE Showdown
01. Aug 2025
The penultimate day of the 43rd edition of the Copa del Rey MAPFRE competition delivered the best sailing conditions of the week, allowing for three races in the battle for the ORC European titles. The provisional leaders going into the final day are VESPER (USA) in ABANCA ORC 0, NADIR (ESP) in Sail Racing ORC A, GUARDAMAGO (ITA) in Ubico ORC B and EARLY BIRD (GER) in Uber ORC C.
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| 08.08 - 16.08 | Tallinn | EST | |
| 15.08 - 16.08 | Newport, RI | USA | |
| 25.08 - 30.08 | North - East Aegean Islands | GRE | |
| 07.09 - 13.09 | Monfalcone | ITA | |
| 07.09 - 13.09 | Porto Cervo, Sardinia | ITA |
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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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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