Based on the entries received by 1 May 2012, organizers at the Merenkävijät Sailing Club (MSC) and the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) have announced the split between Class A and Class B entries in the 2012 Audi ORCi World Championship to be held in Helsinki over 4-11 August. More ...

The MAIOR regatta over 28 April - 1 May marked the start of the ORC racing season in Germany, attracting 31 entries from Denmark and Germany divided into three classes to race on courses laid in the Kieler Buche by the Kieler YC. The long weekend featured a wide variety of weather, from light winds to fresh. More ...

The Norwegian Sailing Federation is organizing Nordic Measurer Seminar at Utstein Kloster in Stavanger, Norway on Apr. 28th to 29th. The seminar is intended for measurers who want a more expertise in theoretical and practical measurement procedures for rigging, hull and sail measurements. More ...

The Marina Dorica Association and the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) are pleased to announce that the 2013 ORCi World Championship will be held at Marina Dorica in Ancona, Italy over 21-29 June 2013. This annual event is the sole Offshore World Championship sanctioned by the ISAF. More ...

The 2012 ORC Annual General Meeting will take place in Dublin, Ireland from November 1st - 7th. The meetings will take place in Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire. Special rates are available for the ORC AGM participants but early booking is strongly reccommended due to the small quantity of rooms available. More ...

As Spring draws near, the Winter Series events are drawing to a close throughout Italy, with results being announced for numerous championship series. The Riva di Traiano Winter Championship concluded with the TP52 Aniene as the overall winner, with Alessandro Maria Rinaldi at the helm. More ...

Organizers from the Sailing Club of Rijeka (SCOR) and the Porto Montenegro Yacht Club are pleased to announce a new race for offshore sailors interested in sailing along one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world: the Thousand Islands Race, to be held over 20-30 September 2012. More ...

Audi ORCi World Championship in Finland already approaches 100 entries for August event, and Celadrin ORC European Championship in Italy expects over 70 to attend in June. The two largest events on the 2012 ORC calendar are on track to becoming among the most popular ever in the 43-year history of the ORC. More ...

An ORC Measurers Seminar will be held at the Tihany Sailing Club on Lake Balaton in Tihany, Hungary over 20-22 April 2012. ORC Chief Measurer Nicola Sironi will be assisted by Zoran Grubisa of the ORC Technical Staff to lead this course. This seminar will focus on teaching IMS methods to beginning and intermediate level. More ...

Thanks to the hospitality of the Montenegro Sailing Federation and Porto Montenegro Yacht Club, ORC Tech staff member Zoran Grubisa was invited early this week to make a general presentation of ORC Rating Systems for sailors, owners and race organizers at the splendid premises of Porto Montenegro YC. More ...

With over six months to go before the start of racing, organizers from the Merenkävijät Sailing Club and the Finnish Offshore Sailors Association have already attracted 42 entries from six countries to the Audi ORCi World Championship, held over 4-11 August 2012. Based on the historic fortress island of Särkkä in Helsinki harbor. More ...

With the recent distribution of the 2012 ORC Manager software to all Rating Officers in 35 countries around the world, boat owners and managers can now request 2012 ORC International and ORC Club rating certificates from their national rating authorities. While some countries will continue using 2011 certificates. More ...

The Offshore Racing Congress announces that its innovative user-friendly access to the rating system, ORC Sailor Services, will now feature translations of its services and functions in German, Spanish, Italian, Croatian and Greek to better serve a large segment of the ORC community. More ...

Eighty-four year-old Syd Fischer, a legend in ocean racing history, has earned overall victory in ORCi scoring in the 2011 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in a field of 38 ORCi teams. This is Fischer’s 46th offshore season with his latest Ragamuffin, a Farr-designed TP52 originally from San Diego. More ...

The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) announces its 2012 rules are now available for download online at the Rules and Regulations page. These rules include the International Measurement System (IMS), the ORC Rating Rules (ORC International and ORC Club), the “Green Book” of ORC Championship Rules. More ...

Syd Fischer’s Ragamuffin has taken and holds a slim corrected time lead in ORCi standings in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, in a tight race among two other rivals with only 90 miles left to the finish. As of midnight local time, the Farr-designed TP52 less than two miles from Jason Van der Slot’s Calm, another Farr TP52. More ...

At just over a day and a half into the race and just passing the half-way point of the race in the Bass Strait, Chris Bull’s Cookson 50 Jazz is leading the 38-boat ORCi Division in the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race. Even with a tough first night in strong southerly breezes and large head seas, their average speed of 9.1 knots for the race. More ...

Luigi Carpaneda, a keen offshore sailor known to many in Italy and beyond, died last week in an auto accident in his home of Milan. He had a very busy life that included several aspects, and in all he's been respected and is now missed and remembered. Luigi as a teen-ager was one of the few survivors of the Russian retreat. More ...

Organizers at the Sailing Club of Rijeka (SCOR) and ORC have announced a change of dates for the 2012 ORCi Mediterranean Championship to 10-16 June 2012. The date change has been made to allow entries to also participate at the next major ORC event in the Mediterranean region, the 2012 ORCi Europeans. More ...

The Royal Spanish Sailing Federation (RFEV) has announced that the rating system to be used in local, regional and national-level offshore sailing shall be ORC starting on 1 January 2013. During 2012 the current systems will be used for events on the National offshore calendar. More ...

ORC is pleased to announce that Beta version of 2012 ORC VPP - Designer's version is now available for special discounted price of 300 EUR for payments before 15.01.2012. This inlcudes beta version as well as following final version. The price for payments after 15.01. will be 500 EUR. More ...

The coming of winter does not stop ORC racing in Italy, where hundreds of teams enjoy Winter Series racing throughout the country. At the Circolo Velico Fiumicino, sport director Massimo Pettirossi comments on the beginning of the Winter Championship of Rome More ...

The Annual General Meeting of the ORC commenced yesterday, with meetings of the Offshore Classes and Events and Promotion and Development Committees held at the Ritz Carleton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Chairman Don Genitempo led the Offshore Classes & Events Committee into their agenda. More ...

The ORC Argentinean Championship 2011 started on Saturday 29th at the Yacht Club Argentino. This is one of the most important championships of the region and it has a very high competition level since we receive the best boats of ORC Rating systems. There are 62 registered boats. More ...

Putting an end to the drought of Maltese winners, the J/122 Artie, co-skippered by Lee Satariano and Christian Ripard, was named the overall winner of the 2011 Rolex Middle Sea Race yesterday. Artie completed the 606-nautical mile course in an elapsed time of 4 days, 4 hours, 22 minutes, 54 seconds. More ...

Early this morning, at 0054 CEST, the maxi Esimit Europa 2, crossed the finish line of the 2011 Rolex Middle Sea Race in Marsamxett Harbour, Valetta, Malta, to take the line honours win. The Slovenian maxi completed the course in an elapsed time of 61 hours, 24 minutes and 35 seconds. More ...

Heading towards sunset on Sunday evening and a handful of boats in the 2011 Rolex Middle Sea Race fleet have found themselves facing the ultimate drawbridge, the Strait of Messina. With the current having turned adverse, any boats still south of the Strait will need enough wind to get them through. More ...

This 32nd edition of the 606-nautical mile Rolex Middle Sea Race begins this Saturday, 22 October from Grand Harbour. Currently, there are 80 boats entered from 18 countries. Included in this number are the former overall winner, Andres Soriano on the 21-metre mini-maxi Alegre (GBR), 2010 line honours winner. More ...

A record has been broken even before the start of the Rolex Middle Sea Race on Saturday 22nd October. Days before final registration for this year’s event, entries have risen to a record breaking 80 and there are still a few days to go before the last entry can be accepted.New entries from Italy, Serbia, Slovenia and the UK. More ...

With the last race from Isabela Island to San Cristobal the 9th International Galapagos Cup has finished with great success. With winds between 15 and 20 knots, the 85 mile-long race to San Cristobal started at sunset at Isabela island, and was followed by heavy conditions that night which challenged all crews. More ...

Second race of the Galapagos Cup IX is completed. After a delay of more than 2 hours, the race dragged its feet with winds of approximately 10 knots as the fleet passed through the south passage of Turtle Island to Puerto Villamil. The Peruvian Kuan Kun as usual was the first to reach the finish. More ...

In just under three weeks, the sound of cannon fire over Grand Harbour will herald the start of the 32nd Edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race (RMSR). The race starts at 11.00 a.m. on Saturday 22nd October and already the entry list is bulging with international competitors from all over Europe. More ...

In the first third of the race to Santa Cruz Island, to the entrance of the Humboldt Current some 60 miles from Salinas, the wind strength grew to be in the range of 19 to 22 knots from the SW quadrant, resulting in a fast race to the island. From the second day onwards the wind conditions were stabilized at slightly less pressure. More ...