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...
New ORCV offshore series working a treat for father and son duo
New ORCV offshore series working a treat for father and son duo
Experienced yachtsman David Lynch and his son Andrew, newly initiated into the joys of ocean racing, have successfully sailed their Northshore 369 Pegasus into the lead of the of the West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint Series, hosted by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV).
The pair, who finished Race 3 in second place to...