APOLLO BAY RACE WRAP-UP For the 24 boats that started, The 2013 Apollo Bay race will be remembered for generally light and variable winds, with large shifts making navigation challenging, some might say even a lottery. A sloppy sea and regular rain showers did not make for the most enjoyable sailing conditions at all! Congratulations to Bandit who won on IRC as well as seconds in both AMS and PH [ ... ]

  Last chance to enter the Apollo Bay Media Competition
If you haven't had a peek at the ORCV Facebook page recently, you may have missed the photos, videos and comments supplied by our eager race entrants.  Due to the overwhelming success of the competition, we have decided to leave the entry period open until 17:00 (5:00pm) Wednesday 22 May, 2013. Entries can be posted straight to F [ ... ]

APOLLO BAY RACE The Apollo Bay Race got under way at 0700 Saturday morning after a 30 minute delay due to inbound traffic. The fleet was enjoying 10-15 knot SW winds with intermittent, but clearing rain. The early leader was Shamrock with several boats bunched up not far behind

Apollo Bay Weather Update  Well, true to form the weather gods are still keeping us guessing! Winds have freshened a bit but more importantly have shifted to the west so no more great beam reaches and more on the nose now. The two PredictWind models are quite different early on so something for the naviguessers to get their teeth into maybe. An  [ ... ]

Safety and Sea Survival Course- Registrations closing soon! Last chance to register for Safety and Sea Survival Course on 25th/26th May 2013.
Details HERE.

Testing conditions for this year's Apollo Bay Race This weekend's race to Apollo Bay doesn't look like we are going to have any records broken. So with light wind tactics are going to be important. As this is the last race of the Offshore Championship the scores are close. In AMS Addiction and Bandit are separated by a point, in IRC Bandit and Dry white are separated by 5 and in PHS Addiction and [ ... ]

2013 ORCV Double Handed Race -The Next Generation. The focus on racing has very much been about the 2013 Osaka Cup of late, but last weekend 22 entrants took part in the ORCV Double-Handed Bay race on Port Phillip. We were alerted by Aidan Geysen from Streetcar that “ There were two young sailors on board Audacious (male and female) who sailed the boat very well, getting the kite up on all the  [ ... ]

2013 Melbourne to Osaka Double Handed Race Adventure Safety Trophy Winner. Our thanks to Jeff Dusting from Adventure Safety who provided a trophy for Line Honours and two Kru Lifejackets for the Melbourne Osaka Double Handed race.
Wasabi were winners of the award and it was graciously accepted on behalf of Bruce and John by Owen, seen here with George Shaw.
Along with their Line Ho [ ... ]

  2013 Melbourne to Osaka Double Handed Race -A very special occasion The Melbourne to Osaka 2013 Award Ceremony held earlier this week at Temmangu Shrine was unforgettable. The three part celebration began in the inner sanctum of the Shrine with a hauntingly beautiful Shinto blessing for the safe arrival of the fleet. The lucky group of 100 invited guests then moved to the nearby tatami ro [ ... ]