After all the fun with ORR-Ez telling us to go away, we've decided to provide ratings for everyone based on the ORC rating system. ORC is being used by many clubs on the Chesapeake, so using ORC should be more universal for all of us.
For this summer, we will work to assign you a rating based on similar or sister ships that currently have ORC certificates. It's not perfect, but we will be a lot closer to a fair rating based on wind and race configuration.
Using a sister ship is not ideal, though. If you want to have a more accurate rating for your boat, getting an ORC Club certificate will make sure your rating is accurate for your boat. If you get a certificate and you hope to sail non-spin on occasion, make sure to also get a non-spin certificate.
If you plan to do Bay races (not just Wednesday nights), having a real certificate could open up more regattas for you to participate. Be sure to check out the options, but ORC Club will get you far without lots of complicated measuring. Two sites of interest are:
and, of course, https://orc.org/
We needed to amend the NOR, so here it is:
Marshall, Thanks for all the extra effort to work to move our rating system in a productive direction. Jeff (Ostinato)
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