IRC YEARBOOK 2010
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e celebrated the fi fth anniversary of the many years for its subjectivity, but it is easier East Coast Championships, and our National
IRC Rule in the USA in September and cheaper to obtain and all can be done Championship relocates to a different area of
2009 during the St Francis Yacht Club’s Rolex locally. But IRC has been succeeding and the country to allow everyone to participate
Big Boat Series. The St Francis YC went on continues to grow, with more and more while expanding the IRC footprint.
record as the fi rst adopters of the Rule back events offering IRC Classes. In 2006 the National Championship was
in 2004 when it was little known in the rest of To help its growth, various local owners’ at Block Island, in 2008 in the Great Lakes,
the country. groups have been formed. Late in 2007 the in 2009 in San Francisco and the 2010
Thanks to their successful introduction San Francisco Bay Owners’ Association was edition is scheduled to be hosted by the New
of IRC, the Rule has grown ever since, formed to promote IRC here. In 2009, the York Yacht Club in July.
expanding to the Great Lakes and the Western Long Island Sound Owners’ With the economic downturn, 2009
north-east coast. In 2005 the US-IRC Association was created in an area where unfortunately did not provide us with an
Foundation was created to market and one of our largest groups of IRC Certifi cates increase in the number of certifi cates.
promote IRC and work with US Sailing in resides. This year we saw the formation of However, we expect that, as the global
supporting the IRC Certifi cate owners and the the SoCal 52 Class. All these groups help economy returns to previous levels and with
organising authorities in the United States. support IRC racing in their respective areas. all our effort to date, IRC has a strong
As we expected from the beginning, this is To help the spurt of growth in IRC, we also foundation and US-IRC and US Sailing will
a slow growth process. The mainstream have regional events such as the San continue to support and see growth and
handicapping system had been criticised for Francisco, Pacifi c Coast, Great Lakes and success of IRC here in the United States.
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