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2024 is another successful year, with >14K certificates issued worldwide. Representatives of boat owners and sailors from the 41 nations around the world that use rating certificates from the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) met today in Singapore at the 55th edition of their annual Congress meeting.

The strength of the ORC system is in its ability to use the latest scientific and technical tools to provide what’s needed for fair racing among racing sailboats of dissimilar design. With continual investment in research and updated analyses of the fleet, this approach to handicapping is more consistent and objective than other approaches since it can use these tools to more fairly rate boat types that range widely among Monohulls, Multihulls, Superyachts and now J Class yachts too.

The Offshore Racing Congress reports another great year of progress in its 55th year of providing technical solutions for fair racing among a wide variety of racing yachts: Monohulls, Multihulls, Superyachts and a new class this year: the magnificent J Class yachts.

The 2024 edition of the Mediterranean’s most famous 600-mile offshore race was one of the most memorable on record.
Swiss Franco Niggeler's Cookson 50 KUKA 3 wins Overall ORC Category and Boccale del Mediterraneo Trophy.

Organizers of the annual Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC), the premier ORC-scored winter offshore race series in the US, have announced that due to ongoing weather challenges in central Florida, they have made the difficult decision to cancel and replace this year’s St. Petersburg to Lauderdale Race, originally scheduled for November 20th.

The inaugural South African ORC Double-Handed Championship will be held on 19-20 October 2024. The Championship will be staged as a single offshore race, known as the Canyon Cup 100, with an intended course of 100 miles.

The team which has virtually dominated J Class racing since they joined the fleet early in 2022, had originally made winning this prestigious regatta - which has been sailed at the heart of the 37th America's Cup arena - as one of their primary goals from the outset.

The winners of the Barcelona Superyacht Regatta 2024 were: V, followed by Jasi and Nefertiti in the Performance Class. In the Cruiser Class, Halekai took the grand prize, followed by Esense and Fidelis.

October 5, 2024 - Newport, Rhode Island, USA - After six days of competitive inshore and offshore racing within three classes, two new and one returning team have been crowned ORC World Champions at the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court. These three teams demonstrated an exceptional level of preparation, practice and eventual execution to prevail after six days of intense inshore and offshore racing among the 43 entries with top-level sailors from throughout the United States and around the globe.

October 4, 2024 - Newport, Rhode Island, USA - Today’s penultimate race day at the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club Harbour Court featured a day-long distance race to fulfil the event’s requirement to give another test of offshore sailing skill among the 43 participating teams.

October 3, 2024 - Newport, Rhode Island, USA - A delayed start to wait for wind today still yielded two more windward-leeward inshore races at the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club Harbour Court. With five inshore races completed, the scorelines now have one discard applied, resulting in even closer points margins on the leaderboard in some classes.

Today the weather was the star in Day Three of the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club at Harbour Court. A rather gloomy forecast of a 6- to 8-knot easterly blossomed into 10 to 12 knots and what many locals called some of the best conditions of the season.

The J Class yachts, which will compete at the upcoming J Class Barcelona Regatta and their crews will assemble over the next few days in the heart of the Catalan capital, the host city for the 37th America’s Cup, as final preparations are made before racing starts on Monday, October 7.

After 24 to 30 hours of racing and sailing courses varying in length from 157 to 203 miles the fleet has now finished and the results in for the first race of the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club at Harbour Court. These results are significant for all of the 43 teams competing because they are not discardable in the final score tallies.

After an impressive spinnaker start out of Newport Harbor, the first several hours have shown great progress into first race at the 2024 ORC World Championship held at New York Yacht Club.

After three days of inspections, the first race of the 2024 ORC World Championship organised by the New York Yacht Club in cooperation with the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) will start on Monday with a long race designed to test the offshore skills of the 43 teams entered the week-long event.

The final destination of the Multihull Cup 2024 Trophy went down to the wire today, with just 20 seconds deciding the outcome of what has proved to be a highly competitive and friendly encounter in Mallorca.

In less than one week and for the first time in 24 years an ORC World Championship will commence at the New York Yacht Club in Newport, Rhode Island. This event, co-organized with the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), features competitive inshore and offshore racing among 43 yachts from throughout the US and around the world that range in size from 30 to 52 feet in length.