Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) News and Results
France's J/133 Pintia Back in Action After Fastnet Race Win for RORC Channel 120-Miler
8th August 2023 RORC
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Channel Race is set to take place on Saturday, August 12th, as part of the RORC Season's Points Championship. Although the number of participating boats will be significantly lower than the world record entry…
Caro Grinder Cian Guilfoyle of Dun Laoghaire is 50th Rolex Fastnet Race Overall Winner
27th July 2023 RORC
Fastnet Race Day Five: Max Klink’s Botin 52 Caro has been crowned overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race. After being confirmed as winner of IRC Zero yesterday, no other boat still racing on the 695 nautical mile course can…
Howth Skipper Johnny Mordaunt Sets New Race Record in Cowes Dinard St Malo Race on Royal Cork Volvo 70 Tschüss 2
8th July 2023 RORC
Royal Cork Yacht Club member Christian Zugel, racing Volvo 70 Tschüss 2, skippered by Howth's Johnny Mordaunt, has set a new Monohull Race Record for the Cowes Dinard St Malo Race. Tschüss 2 completed the 151nm course in an elapsed time…
Howth’s Mordaunt to Captain Tschüss 2 in RORC Cowes Dinard St Malo Race This Weekend
4th July 2023 RORC
Dublin sailor Johnny Mordaunt is boat captain on the Volvo 70 Tschüss 2 for the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Cowes Dinard St Malo Race, which has attracted 204 boats with over 1,000 crew on board from 16 different nations. This…
The UK IRC National Championships has been the battleground for close victories in the past, with Rán winning last year by 0.005 of a point. However, the 2023 Overall IRC National Champion was decided by an even smaller margin. Adam…
RORC UK IRC National Championship Racing Gets off to Spectacular Day One on the Solent
24th June 2023 RORC
Spectacular conditions with an average wind of 16 knots and 20 in the gusts blessed the first day of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s IRC National Championships. A classic Solent day in a south-westerly with glorious sunshine. The competitors rose…
The inaugural IRC Two-Handed European championship will have 60 teams on the start line off the south Breton port of La Trinité sur Mer on Sunday, July 2. The championship consists of 500 offshore miles across two challenging races, taking…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club IRC National Championships is all set this weekend for three days of multiple short-course racing in the Solent. Four individual UK IRC Class champions and the Overall UK IRC Champion will be awarded at the…
91 boats crossed the Royal Yacht Squadron Line for the RORC Morgan Cup Race from Cowes to Dartmouth. A weak sea breeze and a favourable tide got the fleet away to a smooth start to the east, but as the…
Starting on the 16th June, over 90 boats are set for the Morgan Cup Race from Cowes, IOW to Dartmouth, Devon. The Morgan Cup is the tenth race of the RORC Season’s Points Championship, the largest racing series in the…
Volvo Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race Will Celebrate 30th Anniversary With Record Fleet
3rd June 2023 W M Nixon
There’s more than a few of us around who well remember the launching of the new 280 nautical miles Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race by the ideas-filled duo of Martin Crotty and Peter Cullen of the National Yacht Club. It…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s (RORC) Myth of Malham Race attracted a record entry of 147 boats racing under the IRC Rating Rule for the Myth of Malham Cup. The 235nm race attracted the largest entry for any offshore yacht…
A record entry of 159 boats is entered for the RORC Myth of Malham Race. The overall winner of the Myth of Malham Cup will be decided after time correction under the IRC Rating Rule. The impressive RORC fleet is…
On Sunday, one of the newly-launched hot favourites for the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s (RORC) 50th Rolex Fastnet Race in July, Ino Noir, had its boat christening ceremony at RORC, Cowes. The liquid crimson 45ft monohull will catch the eye…
Sixty-nine boats started the North Sea Race outside the Royal Harwich YC for the 180nm race bound for the Scheveningen Yacht Club, Netherlands. The overall winner after IRC time correction was the J/122 Ajeto! raced Two-Handed by Robin Verhoef &…
Three different teams scored victories on Saturday in the 25-strong Cape 31 Class at the RORC's Vice Admiral's Cup on the Solent. James Howells’ Gelert took Race 1, Roger Bowden’s Nifty ran away with it in Race 2, and Niall…
