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How Experts Work to Make Sailing Fair for Everyone - First 2024 ORC ITC meeting in Winchester, UK
16. Apr 2024
In Winchester, UK, a group of the world’s leading sailing experts gathered on April 6-7 for the first 2024 ORC International Technical Committee (ITC) meeting. Their goal? To ensure that yacht racing is as fair and exciting as possible, whether for any monohull sailing boat, luxurious superyachts, or speedy multihulls.
2 Months to go until the ORC DH World Championship 2024 - Meet and Greet!
11. Apr 2024
Just two months remain until the exciting voyage through Norway's heart begins, and the ORC Double-Handed World Championship 2024 lineup is truly impressive! The competition promises to be fierce with 75 entries representing 8 nations – including the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.
Record-smashing number of entries for the 100th Bayview Mackinac Race presented by National Fleet Services
11. Apr 2024
As of today, there are 100 days left to Saturday, July 20, 2024, the start date of the 100th Bayview Mackinac Race presented by National Fleet Services. This annual blue water classic held on Lake Huron and the Straits of Mackinac is the world's oldest continuously run freshwater race.
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25.04 - 28.04 | Busan | KOR | |
26.04 - 30.04 | Palma de Mallorca | ESP |
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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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