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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Royal Malta Yacht Club Hosts ITC Autumn Meeting 2025: Finalising the 2026 VPP
08. Oct 2025
The International Technical Committee (ITC) of the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) is set to meet at the Royal Malta Yacht Club from October 10–12, 2025. This in-person gathering of the committee will be a pivotal chapter in shaping the 2026 Velocity Prediction Program (VPP) and other technical developments across ORC fleets.
ORC mourns the passing of Akis Tsalikis
04. Oct 2025
ORC is saddened to announce the untimely passing of Management Committee member Akis Tsalikis. He died recently in Thessaloniki, the city where he was born and lived his entire life. Akis had a lifelong passion for the sea and sports. For more than thirty years, he made substantial contributions to promoting and improving the ORC system and numerous events and organizations throughout Greek sailing.
Charleston Race Week to Host 2026 ORC Sportboat North American Championship
01. Oct 2025
Charleston Race Week at Patriots Point is proud to announce that the 2026 edition of the regatta will host the ORC Sportboat North American Championship. The approval was confirmed this week by the ORC Management Committee, making Charleston Race Week at Patriots Point the official venue for this major international event.
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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 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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