Start Up helps put Club on the IRC map
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The Royal Dart Yacht Club (RDYC) is one of nine clubs around the UK who are using the RORC Rating Office’s Start Up scheme to encourage members to race their boats using the International Rating Rule (IRC) in 2016, and is now looking forward to a bumper number of RDYC members entering the IRC classes in Dartmouth Royal Regatta Sailing Week in August.
In 2015 only one boat from the RDYC entered the regatta under IRC and only three boats in the club held IRC certificates. Fast forward to July 2016 and the Club now has over 30 IRC rated boats and already six of those have entered Dartmouth Week in the IRC Classes.
Image: Dartmouth Week 2015 by Peter Newton Photography
With 61 yachts from seven nations, the Royal Ocean Racing Club's three day long IRC National Championship, starting tomorrow (Friday 24th June), will feature one of the strongest line-ups of recent years.In addition to the new high speed, adrenalin-fuelled box rule classes, the FAST 40+ and HP30, several competitors are using the IRC Nationals as a warm-up for next month's Brewin Dolphin Commodores' Cup.
