Devonport, Westcoaster and Coastal Sprint are Open for Entry
Races are Open to Enter
Entries are now open for the West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint, Devonport and the Melbourne to Hobart (Westcoaster). We are proceeding with preparations for our traditional Christmas races and on current trends, expect that by early December, vaccination rates will allow the border to Tasmania to open. Let us know your intention, enter the races early,...
ORCV scoops Australian Sailing Victoria Awards
ORCV scoops Australian Sailing Victoria Awards
The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) has scooped the 2021 Australian Sailing Victoria Awards, being named Victoria Club of Year, receiving the Sport Promotion award, while ORCV Life member Robin Hewitt received the Lifetime Achievement award.
These awards followed on the back of another ORCV member, Peter Davison, being named Victorian...
A Lifetime Achievement for Robin Hewitt
A Lifetime Achievement for Robin Hewitt
Exemplifying excellence and an unwavering dedication to the sport of sailing, Robin Hewitt is an extraordinary individual who has actively shared, supported and inspired current and future generations of sailors. Robin has given a lifelong commitment that set standards for others to...
Peter Davison named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year
Peter Davison named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year
Victorian yachtsman Peter Davison, the owner/skipper of the Archambault 40 Arcadia, was named Victorian Offshore Sailor of the Year by Australian Sailing last evening.
An ORCV and Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) member, Davison has successfully competed in several of the premier offshore races with the ORCV this season, sailing...
New Comer Tony Hammond takes Dual Championship
New Comer takes Dual Championship
Tony Hammond entered the ocean racing scene this past year, having bought ‘Maverick’, a Sunfast 3600 to sail it shorthanded. Tony takes out the 2020-21 West Offshore Coastal Sprint series and also the 2020/21 ORCV Double handed Championship.
Tony Hammond on the helm. Photo Rod Smallman
He’d been...
The Plan – Come 80% vaccination reached
The Plan – with Return to Sailing
Each day provides more certainty on the direction forward to when we can return to sailing and that target of being 80% double dose vaccinated. At this stage, it looks like we will reach the target early in November, possibly after the Melbourne Cup weekend.
With this in mind, our first race back...
Updating and Checking your Details
Crew Compliance
With the 2021/2022 season, the ORCV will be streamlining compliance checking. With larger fleets and more crew, there will be greater reliance on skippers and crew co-ordinators to follow up on missing crew data. We can all help by checking our own data.
The ORCV utilises three external databases during the course of our racing and/or training events. Why...
ORCV Knowledge Webinars
ORCV Knowledge Webinars
We invite ORCV members to join our trainers for some informal tutorials and discussion webinars. Each webinar will start at 8pm with a quick instructor led tutorial before opening the remainder of the session to questions and discussions and will run for no longer than 60mins.
Registration is required.
These sessions are open to only ORCV members and are...
Keelboat and Rudder Inspections
Keel & Rudder Inspections
Background
Unfortunately, in recent years there have been a significant number of serious keel failures in offshore racing, some of which have resulted in fatalities. World Sailing has reviewed these incidents and as a result introduced a requirement for boat owners to regularly undertake an inspection of their boats to...
2021 AGM Awards
Special Awards - 2021 ORCV AGM
“Praise of contributions made to the ORCV, should not be missed".
At Tuesday night's AGM, we honoured:
Angus Fletcher with a Life Membership (Posthumously)
The committee and members voted to accept unanimously that Angus Fletcher (recently deceased) should still be progressed to being honoured posthumously for LIfe...
Expressions of Interest - Anniversary Races
Celebrating 170 years of Ocean Racing
We invite you to be part of the history of the ORCV and join us on the upcoming anniversary races in 2022 and 2023.
Ocean racing is alive in Victoria with three iconic races approaching significant milestones and we invite you to be part of these iconic races.
50th Melbourne to King Island (starts 11th March 2022)50th Westcoaster - Melbourne to Hobart...
Sportsboat screamer as Cool sets the pace
Sportsboat screamer as Cool sets the pace
The fleet heading to the first gate Photo Michael Currie
The second race of the ORCV Winter Series saw 45 for the passage down to Blairgowrie, with the fleet drag racing down the bay in record-breaking time. The 25nm run down to the south channel saw some extremely close racing between yachts, with the sportsboats and...
Weight to leeward on the Great Ocean Road Sail
Weight to leeward on the Great Ocean Road Sail
Another ORCV Apollo Bay race has been run and won, with Alien (R880) claiming victory as overall race winner. The fleet of 41 enjoyed a cool but sunny day on their run to Apollo Bay, with a breeze that turned fickle in the closing stages of the race. Whilst many yachts enjoyed a smooth run to Cape Patton, only a few managed to escape the wind...
Sunfish sighting reported in the ORCV Carnival of Short-Handed sailing race
Sunfish sighting reported in the ORCV Carnival of Short-Handed sailing race
The passion for short-handed sailing is well alive in Melbourne sailing scene with James Russell on his Adams 10 yacht, Surprise (SM63) being crowned overall winner in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) Carnival of Short-Handed Sailing.
With a revised course and allowing both double handed and 4+ autohelm boats...