The new ORC 2020 regulations and the “sting” on Code Zeroes.
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The 2020 ORC racing season will bring with it an update of the VPP (velocity prediction program ), the program underlying the ORC calculation software, i.e., the system by which the tonnage certificates of each boat in Orc International are processed. The overall impact of the changes on the fleet seems to be modest, except on one decisive detail: the way Code Zero sails, sails widely used for rainbow events such as the Worlds and European Championships where offshore or coastal racing is planned, are considered.
In the previous version of the regulations, on the Tails, to avoid being considered as “super genoa” which would have greatly penalized the rating, the measurement between mid leech and luff had to be 75% or more of the length of the base. The Tails thus read like small gennakers and did not weigh down the certificate.
Sailmakers, and sailors, however, have been ingenious with adjustments and shapes to use those Tails even upwind wide. Certainly, the trend of many sailmakers no longer using the anti-twist line has also improved the performance of these upwind sails. The Orc decided to “punish” this trend by increasing the size to 85 percent, thus making the Tails even closer in geometry to gennakers, and their use upwind will be much more difficult. Unless the decision is made to employ sails with a ratio of less than 85 percent, however, which will be staked as super genoas very penalizing on the rating.
In itself this is a change consistent with what is happening on the race courses, and from this point of view it is unexceptionable. But it does create a difference with the IRC regulations, which still deal in the old way with Tails. Given that there will be a unified IRC/ORC offshore world championship in 2020, this is no small detail.
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