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Primagaz skipper Laurent Bourgnon and Fuji’s Loïck Peyron get in a little pre-match practice in St Malo before the 1994 Route du Rhum (Peyron already appears to have suffered a beam failure). Fuji was dismasted during that year’s race which Bourgnon would go on to win. The fearless Swiss skipper, who was later lost in a diving accident, would also go on to win the next race in 1998 when Peyron finished fifth
in France and the UK and investing further in IRC development. New technology has always led to debate, whether it is
about its use or how it is rated. Go back far enough and some of the fiercest arguments were about the acceptability of elec- tronic logs and depth sounders. Today’s debate is around the use of autopilots. There is rapid improvement in this area with inertial navigation systems, motion sensors and artificial intel- ligence. While it is generally believed that a good helm will still outperform these systems in most conditions, the premise now often comes with an increasing number of caveats. Within RORC racing autopilots are permitted for double-
handed boats, a common stance among other events in the world. The technology is already in our fleet and developments, and possible rating solutions, will be kept under review. In the meantime, the club have been looking at autopilots
as a way of allowing many competitors who wish to sail with fewer crew (but not two-handed) to do so more easily, increasing participation. This trend is as much about the crew being fully involved in the racing as about the organisation of a large crew. We propose to allow the use of autopilots next
year across all our fleets. I see this as an important step in responding to changes in the way that our competitors want to race their boats.
Steven Anderson Commodore
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Commodore’s letter
erance of imperfection because of the near-unlimited number of parameters influencing performance. It is, however, human nature to challenge the compromises made and as we see in the pages of this magazine this leads to much lively debate… IRC is the result of a close co-operation between the RORC
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and UNCL. The two organisations have been working together on rating systems since 1983 for the benefit of their members and the racing community. IRC is about evolution not revolution and it has continually developed with changes in technology; it is very much up to date with current trends including foils. But it is not always high tech that has to be considered.
In Nice it was interesting to learn more about the modern use of the ‘whisker pole’ and proposed rule changes to deal with their use as outboard leads with multiple headsails. We are also improving further the integration of the two rating offices
have just returned from Nice and the IRC Congress where the focus was very much on the future and the continued development of the rule. I often hear that rating rules come and go. Perhaps, but IRC has been around for a long time now because, like ORC, it has not stood still. To be successful any rating rule demands some tol-
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