One week from today 36 teams from 9 nations around the world will be assembled in the harbor in Sorrento, doing their final preparations to start racing on Friday, 19 May through Sunday, 21 May for the ORC Mediterranean Championship and Campionato Nazionale del Medio e Basso Tirreno. More ...

In the ORC class, the largest boats, the -ORC 0-1- had their first taste of racing on the Bay of Palma with a 24.3-mile coastal race, where the Spanish Navy’s “Aifos” was the fastest boat. Skippered by Jaime Rodríguez Toube, the team completed the route in three hours and fifteen minutes, although they move into second place More ...

The skies cleared and northerly wind filled enough today after a long postponement to complete one final inshore race of the 2023 ORC European Championship, hosted by the Royal Malta Yacht Club. The new ORC European champions in each class sailed well all week, but their overall victories were not guaranteed More ...

A weak frontal boundary hovering over Malta today brought cloud cover and light air for the fleet in the penultimate day of racing at the 2023 ORC European Championship, hosted by Royal Malta Yacht Club. Today the Coastal Race was on the schedule, a non-discardable race intended to last for 10-12 hours More ...

Today was another near-perfect day for racing in Day Four of the 2023 ORC European Championship, hosted by the Royal Malta Yacht Club. Blue skies, flat seas and 8-12 knots of wind kept the racing close in all three classes of this championship event featuring 37 teams from 11 nations. More ...

Sunny skies, flat seas and 8-13 knots of wind made for perfect conditions in the start of inshore windward/leeward racing on the third day of the 2023 ORC European Championship, hosted by the Royal Malta Yacht Club. Two races were held for all classes, with the 10 teams in Class A and 9 teams in Class C. More ...

From the late morning start yesterday of the Long Offshore race, the fleet of 37 entries from 11 nations experienced a wide diversity of conditions in this suitable test of skills to open the 2023 ORC European Championship, hosted by the Royal Malta Yacht Club. Elapsed times ranged from 19:41:46 for the Class A winner, More ...

Under brilliant blue skies and active seas today, the fleet of 38 boats from 11 countries started the 2023 ORC European Championship hosted by the Royal Malta Yacht Club with a brisk “majjistral” wind, the local term for breeze from the northwest that funnels between Sicily and Tunisia. More ...

With a gun salvo from the Frigate Luigi Rizzo the RAN 630 – Regata dell’Accademia Navale (Italian Naval Academy Regatta) in its sixth edition, kicked off Sunday morning April 23, in the waters off Livorno, in Tuscany. This 630-mile offshore race is valid with a coefficient 3 for the Italian Offshore Championship. More ...

The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) and GAASTRA Sportswear are pleased to announce a renewal of their partnership for 2023, with GAASTRA being the Official Apparel Partner of ORC.  “We are excited to extend the partnership with ORC and push it to the next level,” says Karel Begemann, Marketing Manager for GAASTRA More ...

One week from today on Wednesday 26 April, 39 teams from 12 nations will set off on the first race of the 2023 ORC European Championship, organized by the Royal Malta Yacht Club (RMYC) under the authority of the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC), the Malta Sailing Federation and with support from Yachting Malta. More ...

The ORC World Championships in Kiel (August 4-12, 2023) will combine the highest level of racing with what promises to be a record-breaking number of participants. Already less than 18 weeks before the start, 101 yachts are registered in Class A (13 entries), Class B (26 entries) and Class C (62 entries). More ...

Considered the most prestigious regatta on the West Coast and a premier event since 1964, Rolex Big Boat Series brings competitors from around the country and the world to San Francisco Bay for four days of racing. Scheduled for September 13-17, 2023, when conditions are optimal for big breeze, More ...

To use a football metaphor, we could define the Campionato Italiano Assoluto d'Altura (Italian Offshore Sailing Championship) as "the Scudetto of Italian sailing": the main event reserved for sailing boats with a maximum length of 16.40 metres; the not-to-be-missed event for all owners and crews competing at the highest levels More ...

The organizers of the Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Tour (MMNRT) announce a new promotional agreement with the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) and its 2023 Double-Handed World and European Championship events aimed to promoting the double-handed racing at events of the MMNRT. More ...

The Jachtclub Scheveningen announces that its annual North Sea Regatta is now open for entries. The event starts with the Vuurschepen Race held over 16-17 May, followed by the RORC North Sea Race held over 19-20 May, then inshore races held in Scheveningen over 27-29 May. More ...

The final race of the 2023 Superyacht Challenge Antigua was held off the South Coast of Antigua on Sunday 12 March. The weather this year was more Mediterranean than Caribbean but the spirit of regatta was unchanged. Now in its 12th edition, the Superyacht Challenge Antigua is an exciting, friendly event, More ...

After yesterday’s postponement racing was back on at the Superyacht Challenge Antigua on Saturday 11th March. Line Honours was once again taken by the 148ft Dubois sloop Gitana in an elapsed time of 01 hour 57 minutes and 39 secs. The racing was extremely close with the top four boats finishing within 4 minutes More ...

The first day of racing at the Superyacht Challenge Antigua was blessed with tropical heat and moderate breeze of 12-15 knots from an unusual westerly wind direction. The Race Committee set a course of approximately 13.5nm, composed of seven legs. With plenty of mark roundings over a short distance More ...

Less than one week remains to the 15 March deadline for regular entry fees assessed to attend the 2023 ORC Mediterranean Championship being held over 18-21 May in Piano di Sorrento, Italy. At the discretion of the organizers from the Circolo Remo e Vela Italia (CRV Italia) more entries may be accepted More ...

The 12th edition of the Superyacht Challenge Antigua (SYCA) has opened with registration of the magnificent fleet in Nelson's Dockyard. Racing off the South Coast of Antigua will conclude on Sunday 12th March. The invitational event is held in the spectacular waters of Antigua with laid-back social events More ...

With still two months to go before The Offshore Race and 19th edition of PalmaVela, held on the Bay of Palma, the list of registrations for the regatta, including both the offshore and coastal races, has already reached 90. Among them, a boat, not only legendary for its long sporting history, More ...

Expectations of a further step forward in the evolution of Ibiza JoySail -to be held from 28 September to 1 October – have been heightened by the early disclosure that the awe-inspiring J Class yachts will be joining the party alongside a strong contingent of returnees from 2022 and some new entries as well. More ...

This classic inshore racing event event held over 30 July - 5 August at the Real Club Nautico de Palma will feature 5 ORC classes defined by CDL limits found in the Notice of Race. The event will also feature greater sustainability initiatives on land and sea, and is also encouraging female participation in all classes, More ...

At the conclusion of the Port Canaveral Race last weekend, Andrew Clark’s J122 Zig Zag was announced as the overall winner of the 2022-23 SORC Islands in the Stream Series. After correcting out for the race win over Pat Harr’s first-to-finish Cookson 50 En Garde, Zig Zag won both the race to the Cape and the entire SORC series More ...

With one month to the close of the early-bird discount entry deadline (28 February), already there are 33 teams from 10 nations committed to compete in Malta for the 2023 ORC European Championship, hosted by the Royal Malta Yacht Club with help from the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC). More ...

It is the comeback of the year 2023: "Tutima" (owner Jörg Delecate/watch manufacturer Tutima Glashütte) returns to the championship regatta scene at the ORC World Championship off Kiel (August 4-12). The all-female crew organized by skipper Kirsten Harmstorf-Schönwitz (Mühlenberger Segel-Club/MSC) More ...

The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) is pleased to announce that its 2023 rules and VPP for the racing of Superyachts is now available. This sophisticated system specifically designed for the vast array of boat types of over 30 meters in length that compete in Superyacht regattas around the world More ...

In preparation for the ORC European Championship Malta 2023, ORC and the Royal Malta Yacht Club are offering a two-day comprehensive Measurement Seminar to be held at the Royal Malta Yacht Club between Saturday and Sunday, February 4-5, 2023. An introductory presentation on the ORC rating system More ...

After four days of windward/leeward course racing in light to moderate breezes, and a final day of no-wind conditions, two class winners emerged at the second annual Southernmost Regatta held last week in Key West, Florida. Victor Wild’s TP52 FOX recovered from a tough first day of last place More ...

The Pineapple Cup-Montego Bay Race, an 811-nautical mile sailing race hosted biennially by the Montego Bay Yacht Club and Storm Trysail Club, with support from platinum partner Appleton Estate, is excited for the start of the 35th edition of the offshore classic. The Pineapple Cup, first run in 1961, More ...

Reigning World and European champions, former World champions and runners-up will also meet absolute newcomers – there are currently entries from twelve nations – and strong partners from the business community. The ORC World Championships are being held from August 4 to 12, 2023 off Kiel. More ...

Racing starts today in the annual Southernmost Regatta in Key West, Florida. The event will be five days of inshore racing, with the GL 52 Class of four TP52’s racing in one course area, while 8 teams of mixed boat types will racing in an ORC Class in another course area inside the reef. More ...

One of the most important events of the South American racing calendar is the “Rolex Circuito Atlántico Sur 2023”, co-organized by the Yacht Club Argentino (YCA) and the Yacht Club Punta del Este under the auspices of ROLEX. The cities of Buenos Aires and Punta del Este are preparing to welcome the best sailors.  More ...

The The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) is pleased to announce its 2023 Rules and the Velocity Prediction Program (VPP) are now available. Distribution of the ORC Manager software that runs the VPP to generate certificates, ORC Speed Guides and other ORC products has been made to ORC Rating Offices around the world.  More ...

The third in the four-race Islands in the Stream series of the SORC was the Ft Lauderdale to Key West Race, a 160-mile journey south towards Miami, turning southwest and then west towards the finish at Key West. With marks of the course positioned along the Florida Keys, this classic race has the fleet hugging close to the islands More ...

After discovering that ORC Rule 208.2 prohibits tacking a Headsail Set Flying and an Asymmetric Spinnaker simultaneously in front of the forestay, the ORCi overall winner CELESTIAL has withdrawn from scoring in that division of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, and a new winner emerges: Matt Donald and Chris Townsend’s TP 52 GWEILO. More ...

Sam Haynes’s TP52 CELESTIAL and Rupert Henry’s Lombard 34 MISTRAL are overall winners in the ORCi and the 2-handed ORCi divisions, respectively, in the 2022 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race. Henry was racing with team mate Greg O’Shea. Both wins were achieved in relatively small margins of corrected time. More ...

UK-based multihull expert Simon Forbes has joined the team at ORC to help manage the issuing of ORCmh (ORC MultiHull) certificates, a new product line for ORC. His appointment is effective immediately. Forbes brings four decades of expertise in an impressive range of skills in the Multihull world. More ...

Organizers from the Circolo Remo e Vela Italia are pleased to announce that entries are now open for the 2023 ORC Mediterranean Championship, run also as the Campionato Nazionale del Medio e Basso Tirreno (CNT). Racing dates for the event are 19-21 May 2023 and are within the Tre Golfi Sailing Week. More ...