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Scheveningen Hosts ORC ITC Meeting 2025: Key Discussions Ahead
22. Feb 2025
Next weekend, March 1-2, 2025, the ORC International Technical Committee (ITC) will convene in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, for another important meeting. With a strong tradition of hosting ITC gatherings, Scheveningen has proven to be a favored venue, and this year’s meeting is set to continue that legacy. Nearly all ITC experts are expected to attend, ensuring valuable discussions and progress in ORC technical developments.
ITC Spring Meeting: Exclusive Evening with Andy Claughton and the Latest ORC Updates
20. Feb 2025
Ahead of the ORC International Technical Committee (ITC) Spring Meeting in Scheveningen, sailing enthusiasts are invited to an open evening on February 28th at Jachtclub Scheveningen. Andy Claughton, ITC Chairman and a leading expert in yacht design and rating rules, will share insights on classic yachts, SuperYacht developments, and the latest ORC updates, including Weather Routing Scoring improvements and new rating rule innovations for 2025. Don't miss this unique opportunity to stay ahead in the world of competitive sailing!
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.
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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ORC Double Handed European Championship 2024
ORC DH Europeans 2024 Caorle, ITA
2024 ORC Double-Handed European Championship, now in its second year and the first of several World and European Championship events on the 2024 international racing calendar, will be held concurrently with 30th La Duecento, co-organized by the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC).
La Duecento was created in 1995. It originated as part of La Cinquecento as a medium coastal race, disputed only in the X2 (double-handed) version for the first years. In the following years, La Duecento grew and became an independent race of increasing success in the XTutti (Full Crew) version. The name comes from the miles to go – two hundred – along one of the most challenging and fascinating scenarios of the upper Adriatic: starting from Caorle, passage to the buoy of Grado, then route to the island of Susak (Croatia) and back.
⏰ Date: May 1st - May 5th
🌍 Distance: Caorle - buoy of Grado - round the island of Susak - Caorle
La Duecento was created in 1995. It originated as part of La Cinquecento as a medium coastal race, disputed only in the X2 (double-handed) version for the first years. In the following years, La Duecento grew and became an independent race of increasing success in the XTutti (Full Crew) version. The name comes from the miles to go – two hundred – along one of the most challenging and fascinating scenarios of the upper Adriatic: starting from Caorle, passage to the buoy of Grado, then route to the island of Susak (Croatia) and back.
⏰ Date: May 1st - May 5th
🌍 Distance: Caorle - buoy of Grado - round the island of Susak - Caorle
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