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The Nordic Offshore Sailing Community Aligns for the Future at Tallinn Winter Meeting 2025
12. Feb 2025
The Nordic Offshore Sailing Community held its annual offshore sailing meeting last weekend (February 8) in Tallinn, Estonia. As per tradition, the host of the upcoming ORC Championship in Northern Europe extends the invitation for this crucial gathering of sailing repress and tentative.
6 months to ORC Worlds 2025 Tallinn! Early Bird discount until April 1!
10. Feb 2025
Exactly six months from now, on Monday, August 11, 2025, the first stage of the 2025 ORC World Championship – the long offshore race in the Gulf of Finland – will start in Tallinn. Returning to Tallinn for the second time, the ORC Worlds is the pinnacle event of Offshore Racing Congress this year, bringing the best ORC sailors from Northern Europe, the Baltic region, and beyond to Tallinn, Estonia from August 8–16.
Setting Sail into the Future: ORC’s 2025 SuperYacht Rules & VPP Take Center Stage at the NZ Millennium Cup
09. Feb 2025
The world of superyacht racing has just witnessed an electrifying start to the season, as the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) launched its 2025 SuperYacht Rules and Velocity Prediction Program (VPP) alongside the first major regatta of the year—the prestigious NZ Millennium Cup, which took place from February 1–4 in Auckland, New Zealand.
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.
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.
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