ORCV West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint Series

Ocean Race distance: > 50 nautical miles (approx)
Safety Category: 3
Start Location: Queenscliff
Finish Location: Port Phillip Heads

ORCV West Offshore Coastal Sprint Races is a new initiative from ORCV Sailing for 2019/20 season in response to skippers wanting more Category 3 races. The ORCV West Offshore Coastal Sprint races have been designed as short distance ocean sprints to provide a crew development pathway for longer ocean races and as a stand-alone coastal racing program. Each Coastal Sprint race aims to have skippers and crew home Saturday evening.

As with all ORCV races, you can compete Fully crewed, Double handed or up to 4 + Autopilot.

Each ORCV West Offshore Coastal Sprint race is classified Category 3, avoiding the substantial equipment upgrade costs required for Category 2 races. There is no requirement for HF Radio, Satellite phone storm sails or Life Rafts (those under 12m). The ORCV Coastal Sprints are perfect training platform when combined with Melbourne to Stanley prior to the Christmas Ocean races of ORCV Melbourne to Hobart or Rolex Sydney to Hobart.

Each race starts off Queenscliff early on a Saturday and just a fraction more than 50nml sailing to a point before turning around and finishing at a finish line off Portsea Back Beach.The races head to either Western Port, Split Point (Aireys Inlet) or will be a triangle with a finish off Portsea Back Beach.

We also announce a new ORCV Coastal Championship award for the Skipper with best three Category 3 results drawn from the Coastal Sprint Series and the ORCV Apollo Bay Race.

Race Documents, Click here

Online Entry, Click here

Yachts Entered, Click here

Results, click here