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Guaguanco IV Wins the 200 Millas A2 de Altea
04. Mar 2025
Juan and Thierry Lallemand of CN Altea take first place overall and in ORC B. Modul wins ORC A, and O’Marylou takes ORC C. The 39th edition of the 200 Millas A2 Winter Regatta, organized by Club Náutico de Altea and part of the Spanish A2 Offshore Racing Cup, has crowned its 2025 winners.
2025 Superyacht Challenge Antigua - Set for Thrilling Racing & Unrivalled Camaraderie
03. Mar 2025
The 14th edition of the Superyacht Challenge Antigua has attracted ten magnificent superyachts for the exclusive and exhilarating regatta to be held from 5th-9th March 2025. The event combines world-class racing with a relaxed, social atmosphere, emphasizing fun and friendly competition. There is no overall winner, the highly prized Gosnell Trophy is awarded to the yacht which competed in the Spirit of the Regatta as voted for by the competing yachts and the race committee.
ORC West Coast Championship 2025 – Part of the Rolex Big Boat Series
02. Mar 2025
Registration is now open for the 61st edition of the Rolex Big Boat Series, which also serves as the ORC West Coast Championship 2025. St. Francis Yacht Club invites ORC sailors from across North America to an intense week of competition on San Francisco Bay from September 10-14. The ORC class has become a key part of this prestigious regatta, attracting some of the best sailors and boats to the West Coast.
4th Full Moon Sailing Spectacle Croatia Preview
02. Mar 2025
From March 13th to 16th, JK Delfin will be organizing the Full Moon Sailing Spectacle Croatia 2025, featuring two ORC regattas: Full Moon Night Sprint Pula (9 nm) and Full Moon Day Race Pula - Mali Lošinj (42 nm). The Full Moon Sailing Spectacle is our largest sailing event and one of the most significant sailing competitions in Croatia.
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.
Upcoming Events
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| 13.03 - 16.03 | Saint Barthélemy | FRA | |
| 13.03 - 16.03 | Pula | CRO | |
| 05.04 - 06.04 | Caorle | ITA | |
| 17.04 - 20.04 | Barcelona-Denia-Ibiza | ESP |
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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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