IRC Archives

Scoring plan for Offshore Sailing Worlds

December 14th, 2017

Organizers from the 2018 The Hague Offshore Sailing World Championship, in consultation with the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) and the

October 16th, 2017

The annual IRC Congress meeting was held October 7, 2017 in St Malo on the northern French coast. Forty delegates

September 19th, 2017

The Offshore World Championship 2018, a World Sailing sanctioned event, has embraced an innovative solution to be used for the

July 15th, 2017

If everything had gone to plan, Paul Zabetakis and his Impetuous team would be celebrating their first Swan 42 National

May 3rd, 2017

Dr Jason Smithwick has been appointed as the Director of Rating for IRC, managing the Lymington (UK) based Rating Office

March 30th, 2017

American handicap racing in the U.S. is bogged down in rating systems and acronyms, so how can we make sense

March 27th, 2017

Co-managed by offices in England (RORC) and France (UNCL), IRC is a rating rule to handicap different designs of keelboats

March 16th, 2017

Brian Turvey describes in Afloat.ie the ECHO performance handicapping system used in Ireland to encourage participation and enthusiasm among the

March 14th, 2017

Here are some moments in sailing history stored in the Scuttlebutt archives… 5 years ago: What happened to those iconic

February 9th, 2017

Since 1999 there have been World Championships run for yachts handicapped under the Offshore Racing Congress’ IMS and ORCi rating