After consultation between the Federazione Italiana Vela, the Unione Vela Altura Italiana and the Union Nationale pour la Course au Large, the Offshore Racing Congress, the Royal Ocean Racing Club and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, the dates for the 2022 ORC/IRC World Championship have been changed. More ...

Sailors, of all adventurers, know that it is darkest just before the dawn. We are currently deep in the clutches of a global pandemic, but the long term forecast is improving – including treatments and vaccines appearing on the horizon. And so we are ramping up preparations for the next Victoria to Maui Race in July 2022 More ...

David H. Irish passed away peacefully in his home in Harbor Springs, Michigan, at the age of 83. He is survived by his wife Ann, four children, 11 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. From his home base in upper Michigan, where water turns to ice almost half the year, More ...

With Ten weeks to go until the New Zealand Millennium Cup begins, new entries are rolling in. The South Pacific’s longest running superyacht regatta will be the first global superyacht regatta held in close to a year, marking a moment for the industry to gather and for owners, guests and crew to enjoy competitive, fun racing. More ...

The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) are pleased to announce the next biennial ORC/IRC World Championship will be held in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy. Dates for the event are to be 18-26 June 2022.: More ...

Organizers from Kalev Yacht Club and the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) are pleased to announce the opening of entries to the ORC World Championship 2021 to be held over 6-14 August 2021 in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Tallinn, Estonia. Enthusiasm for this event is running high: More ...

The organizing committee of the Yisunsin International Yacht Racesuccessfully completed the 14th Yisunsin International Yacht Race, which was held for five days, with the competition award ceremony taking place on the morning of the 8th November. In order to safeguard against COVID-19, More ...

The 51st edition of the Offshore Racing Congress concluded over the weekend with a review of the 2020 season’s activities along with new policies and innovations lying ahead in 2021. There are 56 members of the ORC Congress that represent 35 countries, World Sailing and the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) as a founding member, More ...

Bayview Yacht Club and the Mackinac Race Authority announced it will adopt the ORC Rating System to score the 97th consecutive Bayview Mackinac Race which starts on 24 July 2021. This decision is in conjunction with Chicago Yacht Club who is making the same change for its 112th Race to Mackinac. More ...

The Brazilian ORC championship has started with the 70th edition of the Santos-Rio Race. The race has attracted a record turnout of 68 boats in six categories starting at Iate Clube de Santos on Friday 23rd October with a boat parade at Baia de Santos and a crowd watching at Ponta da Praia in Santos. More ...

OffshoreDoubles.org announced today that it has surpassed 1,000 members from 55 countries within its first 2 weeks of existence. Thirteen percent of these members are women. Larry Rosenfeld, president of Offshore Doubles said, “We are thrilled to see the momentum behind the discipline of Offshore Doubles. More ...

Due to the global pandemic this year, the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) is following the same process as many other organizations and holding its annual general meeting remotely via Zoom. The dates for the meetings are now set for Saturday, October 31st through Saturday, November 7th. More ...

Zvi began his sailing career in the Sea Scouts as a high school student in Haifa, Israel. He advanced to the Flying Dutchman, an Olympic class at the time, and represented Israel internationally. He later moved to the Etchells class which became his favorite boat, racing with club members at the Carmel Yacht Club. More ...

Fog and a disappearing breeze made getting racing in a distinct challenge. The Melges IC37 fleet started and finished a race in visibility that made seeing the competition a challenge, let alone the marks of the course, while the ORC fleet waited for the fog to clear before starting a race, only to see the wind evaporate More ...

In two days of windward/leeward racing, race managers at New York YC have held six races in a variety of conditions for their Race Week at Newport event, and the competition in both ORC classes is starting to become clear: in ORC Class 1 Victor Wild’s Fox is making a serious challenge to David Team’s Vesper More ...

Norwegian Shorthanded Chamiponship was a light wind challenge for both sailors and organizers. Eight sailors can now call themselves Norwegian Shorthanded Champions. The championship was characterized by very easy and difficult conditions - both for sailors and organizers. More ...

On September 12-13 a traditional Fleet Race Championship was held on windward-leeward courses in Talinn to determine the champions of Tallinn. The Race Committee managed to deliver 4 races on the first race day to 13 boats in ORC I, 8 boats in ORC II and 4 boats in ORC IV groups in strong but shifty winds of 16-20 knots, More ...

The Shorthanded-NM, Norway’s championship in shorthanded sailing, will this weekend be the season's largest championship event by far. It brings together more sailors than all the one-man dinghy events combined, with a total of 24 medals to be awarded.
As many as 95 teams will find their way to Steilene  More ...

At the end of the German championships on the Seebahn, Rasmus gave the offshore sailors at the Kieler Woche another big treat. With gusts around 30 knots the teams had to fight in two races on the Alpha course, but happily returned to the harbour afterwards. Because for many of them the season's highlight.. More ...

Finally sailing, finally championships fight! When the Kiel Week starts its 126th edition in its 139th year tomorrow, Saturday, with the first start at 9 a.m., one of the most unusual editions of the world's largest sailing event since 1882 will begin. But despite all the restrictions and editions caused by Corona. More ...

This year the ORC Slovenian national championship started with two racing days on 20th and 21st June in Portorož and concluded with another racing weekend on 29th and 30th August in Izola. Six upwind-downwind races were scheduled for the weekend in June and five were held in light conditions. More ...

Last weekend the Polish national ORC Championships were held in the bay of Gdansk, site of the 2017 ORC European Championship. The event was conducted for two separated classes: ORC A and ORC B, with five yachts Class A and 15 in ORC B. When taking into consideration situation caused by COVID-19. More ...

With Porto Carras Grand Resort - the traditional home of the North Aegean Cup - remaining closed as a victim of COVID-19, the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki organized the event this year, along with the 2020 Greek National ORCi Cup, in local waters. The Club's premises hosted the event at its scheduled time  More ...

The list of starters at the 21st blueribboncup (August 21-23) is impressive: the German ORCi champion “Intermezzo,” the new “Halbtrocken” and “Imagine”, prominent offshore sailors like Matthias Müller von Blumencron, and Olympians like Robert Stanjek and Tobias Schadewaldt have registered. More ...

ORC joins the Italian Sailing Federation (FIV) in mourning for Carlo Rolandi, who passed away on August 7th at the age of 94. Carlo Rolandi was a very important Italian personality in the international sailing world. He started racing very young in his hometown, Naples, and participated in 9 Olympic games, from 1948 to 1992  More ...

The Yacht Club Gaeta and the Base Nautica Flavio Gioia with great determination have addressed the problems related to the Covid 19 emergency to honor the agreements made with the FIV and with UVAI to host our most important Championship. About 60 owners have responded to this effort and will be racing More ...

The regatta season for big boat sailors has had a late start. The corona pandemic has so far restricted sports competitions with more than two people on board. Now Kiel Week (5-13 September) offers big boat sailors the opportunity to measure their strength against each other. The international German championship More ...

After a difficult leg of nearly five days of light air and upwind sailing, all teams have finished their first leg of the Spirit of Bermuda Charity Rally, organized by the East End Mini Yacht Club (EEMYC) and the Sailing Yacht Research Foundation (SYRF). Proceeds from this race benefit the Bermuda Sloop Foundation  More ...

The cancellation of two major biennial yacht races to Bermuda this year - the Newport-Bermuda and Annapolis-Bermuda races - has not stopped the enthusiasm for 22 sailors to race to the Onion Patch anyway now that the island nation has become open for visitors in the inaugural Spirit of Bermuda Charity Rally. More ...

The Nautical Club of Thessaloniki will host North Aegean Cup, in memory of the Honorary President Stavros Konstantinidis, and at the same time the event will be the Greek National ORCi Cup. Konstantinidis has been a member of the Board for 23 years and President for 3 terms, More ...

The Bermuda Sloop Foundation (BSF), East End Mini Yacht Club (EEMYC) and the Sailing Yacht Research Foundation (SYRF) are pleased to announce the organization of the Spirit of Bermuda Charity Rally, a rally race to St George's, Bermuda and back for the benefit of BSF's programs for youth on the sail  More ...

The Real Club Náutico de Barcelona is pleased to confirm the celebration of the 47th edition of the Trofeo de vela CaixaBank Conde de Godó on 16, 17, 18 and 19 July 2020. The celebration of the regatta both on its sporting side and on the social side will be carried out strictly subject to the legal provisions. More ...

The members of the ORC Race Management Committee led by Hans-Eckhard  von der Mosel and the management and staff at ORC are pleased to announce the publication of a project that has put together the knowledge and expertise of many ORC contributors: the inaugural edition of the ORC Race Management Guide More ...

Despite a strong entry list from the United States and abroad, and the exhaustive efforts of the New York Yacht Club along with the governing bodies for the ORC and IRC rating rules, the decision has been made to cancel the 2020 ORC/IRC World Championship, originally scheduled for Sept. 25 to Oct. 3 More ...

The 2020 sailboat racing season on New York’s Long Island Sound started out with a doublehanded “pick-up” race. With all organized races cancelled for several months, this race was not run by any yacht club or sailing association. There was no entry fee, no committee boat, no trophies and no party. More ...

While inshore and offshore races are shut down all over the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the technical team at the Offshore Race Congress (ORC) has nonetheless been hard at work updating its system for use when racing resumes. Just completed among the projects is a revised and updated version More ...

With regattas shut down in most of the world, there are many online webinars and podcasts being made available to sailors who are unable to get out to race. On their online channel Starboard Portal, US Sailing last week featured a program that highlighted the features of the ORC system: the principles, the features, More ...

Due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic that is hitting the world so hard, the Rolex Capri Sailing Week Organizing Authority, in agreement with Italian Sailing Federation, ORC and the International Maxi Association, has decided to postpone the Regatta to the 2021 edition, with the following schedule:. More ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many in the international sailing community in both direct and indirect ways, and here at ORC we are continuing to monitor the situation closely as it changes, almost with daily effect. Our primary concern is for the health and safety of our sailors and colleagues, and their families. More ...

After a vote from all competing boats, the Gosnell Trophy for the 2020 Superyacht Challenge Antigua has been awarded to John McMonigall’s Oyster 82 Zig Zag, skippered by Philip Howard-Smith. Class winners of the 2020 Superyacht Challenge Antigua are Oyster 885 Firebird skippered by James McDonald,  More ...

Day Three of the 2020 Superyacht Challenge Antigua was both bizarre and eventful. Shortly after the starting sequence the race are was enveloped in low cloud and torrential rain, scattering the wind in every direction. For over four hours, the superyacht fleet battled for supremacy, as well as control of their yachts  More ...

Day Two of the 2020 Superyacht Challenge Antigua was blessed with beautiful conditions on the South Coast of Antigua. A stable breeze of 14-15 knots just south of east, with no squall activity, produced picture-perfect conditions. The Corsairs were set a 33nm course. The Buccaneers and Privateers a shorter 18nm option. More ...