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The Sailor Services (SaS) system is offered by the Offshore Racing Congress as a self-service online tool for boat owners, skippers, and other interested parties such as measurers, race organizers and sail makers, to explore and exploit the boat information in the ORC database.
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Scoring races to get acceptable race results is the primary function of race management. Competitors expect races to be run competently, and the results to reflect their abilities on the racecourse in a fair and unbiased way.
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ORC Weather Routing Scoring
26. Nov 2023
A significant innovation from the ORC International Technical Committee is the development of weather routing scoring, where a boat’s time allowance against her competitors will be calculated using a predicted elapsed time based on weather routing each boat around the course. The use of weather-routing scoring gives the competitors the full benefit of the ORC system to give scoring that reflects the boat and the race conditions.
The Pittwater Regatta 2024, including the NSW ORC Championship, is open for entries
26. Nov 2023
The Pittwater Regatta and NSW ORC Championship will take over the waters February 9-11, 2024! Three days of thrilling inshore, offshore passage and offshore windward/leeward racing, with great prizes for crew and skippers.
2024 ORC Mediterranean Championship Open for Entry
24. Nov 2023
The 2024 ORC Mediterranean Championship is open for entries, and organizers at the Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia (CRVI) are pleased to offer a new format of competitive inshore racing over 9-11 May 2024, followed on 17-18 May 2024 with offshore racing in the 69th edition of the 150-mile Regata dei Tre Golfi (3G).
The 54th ORC Congress: New products and services in 2024 follow a successful 2023
14. Nov 2023
The 54th meeting of the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) concluded today with a summary of the results of this year’s hard work of the ORC’s Committee members and Staff, along with descriptions of new initiatives and innovations in technical and support services for offshore sailing.
Race Calendar 2023
| 24.11 - 01.12 | Buenos Aires / Punta del Este | Buenos Aires / Punta del Este | ARG | |
| 24.11 - 01.12 | Buenos Aires / Punta del Este | Buenos Aires / Punta del Este | URU | |
| 01.12 - 06.12 | Malaga | Malaga | ESP | |
| 26.12 - 01.01 | Sydney / Hobart | Sydney / Hobart | AUS | |
| 09.02 - 11.02 | Newport | Newport | Australia |
Sailor Services
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.
