IRC takes another step forward
IRC Rating Authority
www.ircrating.org
The IRC Rule is owned and managed by RORC and UNCL and certificates are issued by:
RORC Rating Office Lymington, UK
info@rorcrating.com
www.rorcrating.com Director:
Jason Smithwick Jenny Howells Emma Smith Carole Abbott Sally Moss
UNCL Centre de Calcul Paris, France
irc@uncl.com
www.uncl.com Director:
Ludovic Abollivier Basile Despres Rose Lounes
In countries outside the UK and France, IRC administration is through the local Rule Authorities around the world.
Please see
www.ircrating.org for contact details.
As well as technical and measurement advances, the International Rating Certificate (IRC) and the Channel Handicap System (CHS) from which it developed have seen a variety of administration software versions since inception. Back in 1985, which was the first full year of CHS certificates, the ratings were processed in GWBASIC. In this program the staff in the rating office had to enter all the data manually and proceed strictly from one page to the next - if an input needed changing it was necessary to go to the end of the input process and start again. Certificates were printed in duplicate on a dot-matrix printer and sent out in the post, with each boat having a paper file where the copy certificate and all correspondence were kept. Jump forward to 1999/2000 with the introduction
of IRC2000, when CHS changed its name to IRC, and a new data input and rating calculation system had been written in Visual Basic with an Access database. This system allowed the rating staff to move between the different sections - for hull, rig and sail data inputs for instance. By this time the new application form was in Excel format, and later this was further developed to enable importing straight into the software to avoid manual input. Certificates could now be produced as PDFs and emailed out to owners. In 2008 there was an important advance when the RORC Rating Office and the UNCL Centre de Calcul started accessing a single set of software and database on the same server based in the UK, rather than working from duplicate versions of the software in each office with separate databases. Move forward to 2012 and the introduction of an online portal called MyIRC for IRC applications was introduced for UK sailors; we hope to be able to introduce this worldwide in the not too
ORC/IRC World Championship 2022 new dates
The second edition of the biennial ORC/IRC World Championship will be held from 23 June to 1 July 2022 in Porto Cervo, Italy. A large fleet is expected to take part in Porto Cervo with organization provided by the Yacht Club Costa
Smeralda; the new dates have been chosen to avoid any overlap with the Rolex Giraglia regatta scheduled for mid-June. The Notice of Race for the 2022 ORC/IRC World Championship will be published in June 2021, one year ahead of the regatta.
distant future.
During 2020 a new IRC administration application has been written which is being used for producing all IRC certificates from January 2021 and you will immediately have noticed that your IRC certificate looks different! The new application uses a combination of software languages, including Python for the IRC TCC calculation for easy development and research by the IRC technical committee. It also includes a new interface and graphical check of the boat to ensure correct data input.
International Rating Certificate
Seahorse Issue 487 £6.50 US$8.50
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A chance to see what you are missing…. The new conquistadors
Powering 100-foot supermaxis and giant superyachts, winning the Maxi72 worlds, equipping the Vendée Globe favourite and infiltrating the fastest giant French multihulls... Doyle Sails is on a mission to win everything
2019 ended on a strong note for Doyle Sails with yachts carrying its inventory winning a hard-fought line honours and second place in the tough Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race. Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant’s Comanche took line honours with Christian Beck’s Infotrack following them across the line leaving arch
we wanted to go. We set up a triple headsail arrangement with the non- overlapping J0 in front, a J2 staysail and a storm staysail, inside. We got all the way down to VMG running angles with a non-overlapping jib on, which is pretty cool.
‘We saw how strong and efficient theJ0concept is They arevery
Above: Mike Sanderson (at the helm of Aquarius), Volvo Ocean Race winner and chief executive of Doyle Sails, has led a
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