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Keep up to date with the Racing Rules of Sailing The purpose of The Racing Rules of Sailing is to keep sailors and boats safe and to provide fair competition.

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Are you confused about ORC?

Here are some documents that will help you better understand.

 

ORC FAQs issued April 1st, 2017

Lots of contact listed here for additional inquiries.

 Scuttlebutt issue 4805 - Why PHRF is suffering Part 1 - Part 2 & Part3

In a recent study …. Compared to PHRF in every other place we have tried, it has produced better, more competitive racing…for example, check out the attached analysis of the PHRF fleet in the St Pete NOOD regatta in February - the corrected times were on average over 35% closer in the four scored races compared to the PHRF scores.

St. Pete Nood PHRF comparison

ABC’s of ORC Handicap Racing System

The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) has now published a new ORC Guidebook that explains the ORC system of handicap racing.