Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) News and Results
![New Racing Manager Appointed at The Royal Ocean Racing Club](/media/k2/items/cache/268a4a89c5c6b64a11a4efa63b765d7d_L.jpg)
The Royal Ocean Racing Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Stone as the new Racing Manager from mid-November 2017. He will succeed Nick Elliott at the international members' club based in London and Cowes. Chris from Australia…
![Nick & Suzi Jones' First 44.7 Lisa, skippered by RORC Commodore Michael Boyd](/media/k2/items/cache/355a670ee98ad25b41ed65d281b83ab9_L.jpg)
Ker 46 Lady Mariposa, skippered by Daniel Hardy, has won the 2017 RORC Cherbourg Race, after holding off a strong challenge from James Neville's HH42 Ino XXX writes Louay Habib. After IRC time correction, 29 seconds was the winning margin,…
![Nick & Suzi Jones' First 44.7 Lisa, skippered by RORC Commodore Michael Boyd](/media/k2/items/cache/7e2d0c1c81f239fb25523709fb6075b2_L.jpg)
The RORC Cherbourg Race is the penultimate race of the RORC Season's Points Championship, between the record breaking entry for the Fastnet Race, and the highly acclaimed Middle Sea Race. The 75 nautical mile race from Cowes to Cherbourg is…
![Rambler 88 continued its dominating form at the Isle of Wight this past weekend](/media/k2/items/cache/c561fde4540357ced07e31d31f34f274_L.jpg)
There's Life in IRC Yet as Rambler 88 Takes RORC Channel Race - With Sights Now Set On Fastnet
25th July 2017 RORC
#Rambler88 - Last weekend’s RORC Channel Race has clearly demonstrated two things writes W M Nixon. Firstly, the way that George David’s hugely impressive Rambler 88 won the Volvo Round Ireland race 2016 every which way was no flash in the…
![Simon Henning's Alice led the three Farr 36s in IRC Three](/media/k2/items/cache/fe87df384d85baef914d3bc893abb4a1_L.jpg)
The second ever IRC European Championship took place in the south of France over four days last week for an international fleet of 53 boats. While last year the inaugural event was incorporated into Cork Week, this year's IRC European…
![Whooper continued her run of bullets in IRC Three](/media/k2/items/cache/e46dad130608bdabf030cb6f7b914791_L.jpg)
With a near perfect scoreline, Giovanni Belgrano's 1939 classic yacht Whooper was crowned 2017 champion at the Royal Ocean Racing Club's IRC Nationals. Today, two windward-leeward races were held on the Solent in similar brisk southwesterlies to the first two…
![Scoring three bullets on the first day of racing in the IRC National Championship, Ed Fishwick's Sun Fast 3600 was star performer](/media/k2/items/cache/1a605095d6ef5f88d6e052f3f870f900_L.jpg)
With the southwesterly piping up to 30 knots in the final race, the RORC IRC Nationals got off to a brisk start on the Solent today with two windward-leewards followed by a round the cans race. Appropriately, given this is…
![Racing at the RORC IRC Nationals takes place over 23-25th June with a first warning signal each day at 1050](/media/k2/items/cache/862624903276a9620018603c4d9ebb30_L.jpg)
Racing gets under way this Friday on the Solent for the cream of the British keelboat fleet at the Royal Ocean Racing Club's IRC Nationals writes James Boyd. The rating rule will create a level playing field between the 53…
![RORC Commodore, Michael Boyd's First 44.7 Lisa, winner of the 2017 Morgan Cup Race](/media/k2/items/cache/32e732265f80359e0c84941c6f2a285f_L.jpg)
British First 44.7, Lisa, is the overall winner of the 2017 Morgan Cup Race. Owned by Nick & Suzy Jones and skippered by RORC Commodore, Michael Boyd of the Royal Irish Yacht Club on Dublin Bay. The Corinthian team scored…
![Stuart Greenfield will be racing his vintage Ron Holland Half Tonner Silver Shamrock Two Handed](/media/k2/items/cache/005a712bfc0015b9d247d0d1469ee3ef_L.jpg)
Silver Shamrock, the Ron Holland designed Half Tonner that won the World Championship in 1976 will be the smallest yacht taking part in the RORC Myth of Malham race on Saturday. Owner Stuart Greenfield is racing Two Handed with co-skipper Nathan…
![Arnaud Delamare and Eric Mordret's JPK 10.80 Dream Pearls](/media/k2/items/cache/db2ede2cb6221f47d4b5ae03b3845b34_L.jpg)
In a weekend that saw the only Irish JPK10.80, Rockabill VI, win the biggest ISORA race for many years, Arnaud Delamare and Eric Mordret's sister ship Dream Pearls has won the Royal Ocean Racing Club's De Guingand Bowl Race. In…
![Racing Manager Job At Royal Ocean Racing Club](/media/k2/items/cache/a959823fc14d16007c5b5269527d74b4_L.jpg)
The Royal Ocean Racing Club is inviting applications from suitable candidates for the post of Racing Manager to direct a small but energetic race management team based in Cowes. The RORC is an international members' club with clubhouses in London…
![Daniel Hardy's Ker 46 Lady Mariposa is the fastest yacht rated under the IRC rating system for RORC's De Guingand Bowl Race](/media/k2/items/cache/edc29bb9c3320efdef387c0b647d2c05_L.jpg)
The Royal Ocean Racing Club's offshore racing season continues this weekend with the 4th race of the RORC Season's Points Championship. Over 80 yachts are expected to take part with the vast majority of the crews made up of passionate…
![Dr Jason Smithwick, new Director of Rating for IRC](/media/k2/items/cache/0c4cf0b57d1cd0851a21389fab20254e_L.jpg)
The Lymington (UK) based Rating Office, headquarters of the world's most popular rating system IRC, is to be managed by Dr Jason Smithwick. Following on from academia, roles in the research industry and sailing's international federation Smithwick will take up…
![Dutch Grand Master, Piet Vroon is back, as skipper of Ker 51, Tonnerre 4, taking another tilt at the championship in IRC Zero](/media/k2/items/cache/4d23e4805f0d3c3d71c48f5d6453ce6d_L.jpg)
Over 500 yachts are taking part in the 2017 RORC Season's Points Championship. Over 5000 sailors from all over the world will race in the biggest offshore sailing competition in the world. While this year the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race…
![Close racing in the RORC Easter Challenge. Roger Bowden's King 40, Nifty (ex-Tokoloshe 1), claimed first overall in IRC One](/media/k2/items/cache/dc49de7de5ebb150cf437e50b453356e_L.jpg)
Across the 50 boat fleet competing at the RORC's three day long domestic season opener, that doubles as its annual training regatta, it was close across most classes, but none more so than IRC One writes James Boyd. In this,…