With effect from 23 March 2018, in IRC 2017 and 2018 Rules, insert new rule modifying RRS49.2:

Add IRC rule 22.6:

22.6 Crew Position
22.6.1 RRS 49.2 is modified by deleting “sitting on the deck” in the second sentence.

Download Notice 2018/01 for full information and French text 

Another successful annual IRC Congress meeting was held in early October in the popular sailing venue and race destination of St Malo on the northern French coast. Forty delegates from as far afield as Japan and the USA came together to talk about the International Rating Certificate (IRC) racing around the world, technical development and ideas on encouraging participation in yacht racing generally.

In 2018 there is the exciting prospect of the IRC European Championship combined with the RORC’s Commodores’ Cup in Cowes in June, closely followed by the joint IRC and ORC Hague Offshore World Championship in the Netherlands in July. These events set the high standard for IRC racing in 2018, along with the major offshore classic races that continue to be scored using IRC.

Click here to read IRC Notice 2017-01 regarding IRC rule 13.2 and ERS H.5.4 (sail measurement).

For clarification, this modifies ERS 6.5.4 - read extract here. 

Issued 2 May 2017

This is not an exhaustive list of every development in the 2017 software, but covers the main
changes and has been produced to help owners understand changes to IRC ratings. All these are
applied automatically in the software, which is applied across the whole IRC fleet.

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