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The Progress of the ORC Weather Routing Scoring by Andy Claughton
06. Feb 2025
ORC has now spent one year on the development of a new paradigm in offshore race scoring: Weather Routing Scoring. After analyzing >50 races in 2024, and some current races being sailed now in the winter season, ITC Chairman Andy Claughton summarizes the progress of this innovative approach in the new March issue of Seahorse Magazine.
4th Edition of the ORC Double-Handed World Championship Now Open for Entry
05. Feb 2025
The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) is excited to announce that entries are now open, and the Notice of Race has been published for the 4th ORC Double-Handed World Championship 2025. This prestigious event will take place from 7 to 13 September on the stunning Adriatic Sea, hosted by the renowned Yacht Club Monfalcone (YCM) in Marina Monfalcone, Italy.
Kawil makes it a double! Winner of the 2025 NZ Millennium Cup
04. Feb 2025
The final race of the 2025 NZ Millennium Cup has come to a close and Sparkman Stephen's sloop Kawil has been named overall series winner. The 2020 champion put in a strong performance throughout the regatta, securing two first placings over four races.
Kawil moves to the top of the leaderboard on day two of the NZ Millennium Cup
03. Feb 2025
On a day of light airs and a swift course around Rakino Island, Kawil made her move from second to first place overall on the second day of the NZ Millennium Cup. After Sea Eagle’s show of dominance on the first day of the regatta, Kawil didn’t waste the opportunity to show her strength in Auckland’s changeable conditions; pushing the big 81 me-tre down into third place.
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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ORC 2024 AGM - 1st to 5th November - Suntec Exhibition Center, Singapore
AGM 2024 Singapore
As the AGM draws to a close, we’d like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who took part, both in-person and virtually. This year’s hybrid format enabled a broader exchange of insights and ideas, allowing attendees from around the world to join seamlessly. For those who missed any sessions or would like to revisit them, full content and video recordings are accessible through your Cvent registered accounts in the On demand section. We hope you found the AGM valuable and insightful, and we look forward to seeing the impact of our shared work unfold. Safe travels and thank you for your contributions.
Sailor Services
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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.
