Improving ORC handicap system

The 2024 Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) Annual Meeting will be held in Singapore on November 1-4 to discuss ideas and innovations to improve the world’s largest measurement-based handicap system.

Submissions made by representatives from among the over 40 countries that use the system get submitted, with these ideas being allocated to Committees to discuss and make recommendations to the Congress for approval, whereupon the new rules and policies will be updated by the Staff in December for implementation in early January 2025.

The suggestions vary widely from the highly-technical such as extending the ORC VPP down to 4 knots of true wind speed (USA 7), to the highly-practical such as devising more appropriate class splits for ORC Double Handed championship events (SWE 3).

For the complete list of Submissions and meeting details: https://orc.org/agm-2024