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Altea to Host 2026 ORC Double-Handed European Championship
13. May 2025
The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), in collaboration with Altea Sailing Club (Club Náutico Altea – CN Altea), is happy to welcome double-handed sailing teams to the 2026 ORC Double-Handed European Championship, taking place in Altea, Spain, from March 1–7, 2026. The fourth edition of this ORC title event will be sailed in conjunction with the Mediterranean’s most iconic winter regatta – 200 Millas a2, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026.
MaiOR 2025 – Offshore Season Opens with Power, Precision, and Pace in Kiel
12. May 2025
Every spring, the sailing world turns its eyes to Kiel-Schilksee, where the Mai Offshore Regatta (MaiOR) launches the offshore racing season in Northern Europe. From 2 to 4 May 2025, a strong international fleet of 35 yachts gathered on Stollergrund, racing under the ORC rule in conditions that tested focus, finesse, and endurance.
Update on the ORC Sportboat European Championship 2025
12. May 2025
The 2025 ORC Sportboat European Championship, originally scheduled for May at Circolo Vela Torbole on Lake Garda, has been cancelled. We are pleased to announce that the event will still take place later in the year—remaining on the beautiful waters of Lake Garda, hosted by Acquafresca Sport Center in southern Lake Garda on October 13–18, 2025.
CONFLUENCE Leads ORC Mediterranean Championship After Inshore Series in Sorrento
10. May 2025
The inshore portion of the ORC Mediterranean Championship 2025 concluded today off the coast of Sorrento after three days of windward-leeward racing in ideal conditions. CONFLUENCE Leads ORC Mediterranean Championship After Inshore Series. Tre Golfi Sailing Week delivered spectacular action, forming the opening phase of a two-part championship that will resume with a 150-mile offshore challenge next Friday.
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.
With an ORC Certificate, you are getting more than just a rating. ORC Sailor Services allows you access to the ORC Database of all ORC certificates issued worldwide #beyondrating.
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