Minutes of the 2024 Annual General Meeting – Approved!
Highlights:
ORC Rating Systems include the management of measurement rules and certificates for Monohulls (ORC International and ORC Club), ORC Multihulls and ORC Superyachts.
ORC certificates for monohulls (ORC International, ORC Club) are issued by National Rating Offices in 45 countries on six continents and centrally managed by ORC for 6 countries where a national office is not yet established, while ORC Multihulls and ORC Superyachts, are currently administered by the ORC central office.
ORC championship events continue to be popular and competitive, with high levels of participation and the highest-quality teams emerging on top after a combination of several inshore and offshore races. Individual races are competitive and often resolved only within seconds of corrected time. Inspections and measurement controls are strictly enforced at ORC World and Continental championship events, with a variety of designs – both racers and cruiser/racers – winning these events, suggesting fairness in the system for all boat types.
ORC World and Continental championships in 2025 include the following:
The 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship was held for the second time in Tallinn, EST, and featured racing among 64 teams from 9 nations in a wide variety of sailing conditions. Organized by the Kalev Yacht Club, both new and old designs with top-level professional and amateur teams were on the podium in three classes.
The 2025 ORC Double Handed World Championship was held in Monfalcone, ITA, was organized by the YC Monfalcone, attracting 54 entries from 9 nations competing in three classes.,
The 2025 ORC European Championship was this year was held as an event in the 43rd Copa del Rey MAPFRE organized by the Real Club Nautico de Palma in Palma, Mallorca. This event featured a highly-impressive turnout of 117 entries from 21 nations racing, and attracted some of the world’s top sailing talent for a highly-competitive series in all four classes.
The first-ever ORC North American Championship was held as part of the Storm Trysail Club’s 30th biennial Block Island Race Week in Rhode Island, USA. The event featured 25 entries from the USA competing in three classes.
The 2025 Garmin ORC Double Handed European Championship was organized by Helsingfors Segelklubb in Helsinki, FIN with 35 entries from 7 countries.
Weather Routing Scoring was continually developed and improved this year with PredictWind and used officially for all offshore races at ORC World and European Championship events, as well as at numerous major offshore races such as the AEGEAN 600 and the 116th edition of the Chicago-Mackinac Race. At the request of organizers from dozens of other ORC-scored races around the world, this was also used for shadow-scoring to test the method’s effectiveness at predicting fair results.
Fleet Statistics
The total number of ORC Certificates issued in 2025 until 30 October is 14265 for 9648 boats, a 5% increase compared to 2024.
This includes:
3176 ORC International certificates
7257 ORC Club certificates
544 ORCi DH certificates
1648 ORC Club DH certificates
75 ORC International Non-Spinnaker certificates
1566 ORC Club Non-spinnaker certificates
70 Multihull and 168 Superyacht certificates
Compared to the same period of the previous year, the total number of boats issued certificates has increased by 5.0% and certificates increased by 0.8%
- Membership of the Committees
Peter Tjalma replaced by Raymond Roesink in the Classes & Events Committee
- Financial Report and approval of 2024 Financial Accounts
Patrick went through the numbers and the budget for 2026
Reports and Recommendations of Committees
- International Technical Committee
Allesandro told the ITC standpoint to the proposed submissions.
A lengthy discussion about the ORC VPP Residuary Resistance model proposed changes with some good inputs from X-Yachts and the technical committee. This ended up as being decided in line with the ITC proposal but with quite a lot of bandwidth given to the team from Danish Sailing Federation, X-Yachts and Vmax Consulting. This is most likely not the last thing we hear in this case. Here is a link to the report compiled by Max Gurgel! - Rating Officers Committee
- Measurement Committee
- Special Regulations Committee
- Offshore Classes & Events Committee
- Race Management Committee
- Promotion and Development Committee
- Any other business – Nothing raised and Bruno thanked all for a very productive albeit tiring meeting!