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Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) News and Results
Local Sailors Dominate RORC's Cherbourg Race
#rorc – The final race of the RORC domestic season, the Cherbourg Race this year proved a tough and technical upwind battle for the fleet as, faced with squalls and spring tides, the competitors were kept firmly on their toes…
RORC's Cherbourg Fixture is Penultimate Race
#rorc – The Royal Ocean Racing Club's Cherbourg Race is the penultimate race of the RORC Season's Points Championship with next month's Rolex Middle Sea Race bringing the championship to a conclusion writes Louay Habib. The sprint from Cowes to…
RORC Channel Race & A Hat Trick for French Skipper's 'Night and Day'
#rorc – Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, 86 yachts in the Channel Race experienced thunder, lightning and all manner of wind conditions, which produced a complex 100 mile race in The Solent and offshore along the south west…
RORC Offshore Fleet Set Sail for St Malo
#rorc – This weekend over 170 yachts from six different nations will race across the English Channel to the famous walled port city of St Malo in Brittany, France. The 170-mile race pre-dates the Royal Ocean Racing Club by almost…
RORC Launches Photo Contest For IRC Yearbook Front Cover
#RORC - The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Rating Office is launching an international competition next week to select the photograph that will grace the front cover of the 2014 edition of the RORC IRC Yearbook, published by Yachting World.…
O'Leary's Antix Seventh on the Solent at RORC IRC Nationals
RORC British National Champions are decided, but Ireland's sole contender, Anthony O'Leary's Ker 39, Antix has to make do with seventh after a frustrating conclusion to the weekend series yesterday, writes Louay Habib. Race 6 provided the final twist in…
Irish Champion O'Leary Aiming High at British IRC Nationals
#rorc –  Recently crowned Irish IRC champion Anthony O'Leary's Irish Ker 39, Antix, is hoping for overall success in this weekend's British IRC championships, but he's not the only Irish crew racing on the Solent, former Volvo race winner, Wexford's Justin Slattery…
Round Ireland Ace Surfs to RORC Morgan Cup Win
#rorc – Piet Vroon's marlin blue Ker 46, Tonnerre de Breskens, surfed through the finish line at Dieppe to take Line Honours and the win overall under IRC to lift the Morgan Cup writes Louay Habib. Finishing the 122-mile race…
RORC De Guingand Bowl Race Review – A Wild Ride to Guernsey
#rorc – The 120-mile race to Guernsey produced some of the toughest conditions in this year's RORC Season's Points Championship so far. However one of the smallest yachts in the race claimed overall victory in the 85 strong fleet writes…
Irish Ker 39 Campaigns Sixth & Seventh in RORC Myth of Malham Race
#rorc – Two Irish linked Ker campaigns – among seven such designs in the top ten – showed the potency of Irish offshore sailing in a marathon edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's (RORC) Myth of Malham race with…
Peter O'Leary on the Helm as Antix Goes Offshore in Myth of Malham Race
Royal Cork's Anthony O'Leary's Antix, will have his son Olympic helmsman Peter on board the Ker 39 for RORC's weekend Myth of Malham race. The offshore race starts this Saturday from the Royal Yacht Squadron Line. It is a 230–mile…
Vintage Trentesaux Wins 100-Mile Race to Le Havre
The RORC domestic offshore season sprang to life with a fast and, at times, furious 100 mile race to Le Havre for the coveted Cervantes Trophy. Sam Marsaudon and Géry Trentesaux's MC34 Patton, Courrier Vintage, finished the course in under…
Big Fleet Expected for RORC's Cervantes Trophy
104 boats are lining up for the opening race of the RORC domestic offshore racing season, the Cervantes Trophy. Organised by RORC in association with the Société des Régates du Havre and the Royal Yacht Squadron, the Cervantes Trophy race…
Perfect Score for David Franks at Conclusion of RORC's Easter Challenge
#rorc – Winter was halted momentarily this morning on the final day of at the RORC Easter Challenge when the sun broke through, raising the ambient temperature on the Solent above freezing. Combined with more 15 knot winds, Easter Sunday's…
Royal Cork's Antix Moves up to Second at RORC Easter Challenge
#RORC – Anthony O'Leary and his Royal Cork crew on the Ker 39 Antix have moved up to second overall in IRC 2 at the RORC Easter Challenge but South African Mike Bartholomew and his King 40 Tokoloshe had another…
Irish Entries Scoring Well in RORC Easter Challenge Opener
#rorc – Royal Cork's Anthony O'Leary is fourth overall after counting a fourth and third in his 11-boat fleet in the IRC 2 division of the RORC Easter Challenge, held in freezing conditions in the central Solent off Hill Head…

THE RORC:

  • Established in 1925, The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) became famous for the biennial Fastnet Race and the international team event, the Admiral's Cup. It organises an annual series of domestic offshore races from its base in Cowes as well as inshore regattas including the RORC Easter Challenge and the IRC European Championship (includes the Commodores' Cup) in the Solent
  • The RORC works with other yacht clubs to promote their offshore races and provides marketing and organisational support. The RORC Caribbean 600, based in Antigua and the first offshore race in the Caribbean, has been an instant success. The 10th edition took place in February 2018. The RORC extended its organisational expertise by creating the RORC Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote to Grenada, the first of which was in November 2014
  • The club is based in St James' Place, London, but after a merger with The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club in Cowes now boasts a superb clubhouse facility at the entrance to Cowes Harbour and a membership of over 4,000