2020 Winter Series Race 1 - Short Passage race
2020 Winter Series Race 2 - Blairgowrie Passage race
2020 Women Skippers & Navigators Race
2020 Winter Series Race 3 - Short Passage race
2020 Winter Series Race 4 - Geelong Passage race
2020 Sep Safety & Sea Survival Course - 2 Dayl
2020 Sep Safety & Sea Survival Course - 1 Day Refresher
2020 Stanley Race
Commodore Update - Remainder of ORCV 2019/20 Summer Racing Season Cancelled
Commodore's Update
26th March 2020
Re: Remainder of ORCV 2019/20 Summer Racing Season Cancelled
Dear ORCV Community,
Since our letter announcing the suspension of training, the Covid-19 pandemic has moved fast. Our Government’s, both State and Federal, have announced various measures to control the speed and extent of spread of the virus including shutting down non-essential services and...
ORCV and Covid-19 restrictions
Message from the ORCV Commodore. March 18th 2020
Re: ORCV and the Covid-19 restrictions
It is certainly an understatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect on us all. As I write this I am sitting in Inverloch, having yesterday just cut short an NZ sailing holiday to get back to Australia before the borders shut down, I now face two weeks isolation, when I left a week ago,...
Double handed Maverick cleans up in ORCV's 48th King Island Race
Double-handed Maverick cleans up in ORCV’s 48th King Island Race Sailing Maverick double-handed, Rod Smallman and Tom Vaughan have cleaned up in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s 48th Melbourne to King Island Yacht Race, taking out IRC, PHS and Double-Handed divisions and capping off with a second in AMS in the 114 nautical mile race to Grassy in Tasmania. Double-handed racing is fast...
48th ORCV Melbourne to King Island Race Results 2020
48th ORCV Melbourne to King Island Race Results
Congratulations to: White Noise, 1st AMS, 2nd IRC. Maverick 2nd AMS, 1st IRC, 1st PHS, 1st DH Archie, 3rd IRC, 2nd PHS Vertigo 3rd AMS Hartbreaker 3rd on PHS
Full results are here https://www.orcv.org.au/results/2019-20/2020M2KI/series.htm
The magic that happens – the race fairies you never really see
The magic that happens – the race fairies you never really see
I love the King Island race, having done it many times on my own and on friends boats. Gee it’s a lot of work to get the boat to a start line isn’t it ? Provisioning, fuel, safety gear, audits, repairs, compliance paperwork, crew details. How good is it to start a race and better still to finish one. Arriving at King Island...
