2025 Garmin ORC World Championship Starts With Long Offshore Race powered by Piletilevi | PLG
- Piret Salmistu
- Aug 9
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 24
After a final day of preparation, a practice race and opening ceremonies today, the crews in the assembled fleet of 65 teams from 9 nations entered in the 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship are ready for racing tomorrow, Monday August 11th, the first of six days of competition that concludes on Saturday August 16th.
The first start tomorrow will be at 10:00 local time for a long overnight offshore race powered by Piletilevi | PLG that will vary in length for each of the three classes: 211 miles for Class A, 195 miles for Class B and 175 miles for Class C. These courses all have a short north-south lap in the bay north of Tallinn, then take each class on a roughly triangular-shape tour of the Gulf of Finland from Estonia to Finland then back to the Estonian coast.
The forecast weather looks perfect, with northwesterly to westerly winds varying from as low as 8 knots to as high as 18 knots throughout the race period, and also changing across the course area:
The forecast weather looks perfect, with northwesterly to westerly winds varying from as low as 8 knots to as high as 18 knots throughout the race period, and also changing across the course area:
While the 1200 EEST forecast for Tuesday August 12th suggests gradually lightening winds during the second half of this race, this should not disadvantage the slower-rated boats in each class because of ORC's use of Weather Routing Scoring (WRS). In this method the ratings for each boat are determined by that boat's rated performance on the course as the forecasted weather changes for that boat while sailing from the start to the finish.
Tracking for each boat during the race is provided by TracTrac powered by SEB Eesti, with the following link: https://www.tractrac.com/event-page/event_20250808_ORCWorlds/3124
The organizer of the Garmin ORC World Championship 2025 is the Kalev Yacht Club, along with Tallinn Olympic Sailing Center, Estonian Sailing Federation and the Offshore Racing Congress. The supporters of the regatta are Garmin, Tallinn City, the Ministry of Culture, SEB Eesti, Piletilevi | PLG, Amserv, Pantaenius, Alter Marine, A. Le Coq, Liviko Distillery, Sportland Eesti, Telia Eesti, Coffee Address, Baltic Cruisers, GST Marine Boatshop, and SAR Tallinn.
Follow the 2025 ORC World Championship in Tallinn, Estonia:
Official Website: www.orcworlds2025.com
ORC Website: orc.org/worlds2025
Notice Board: manage2sail.com
Entry Lists, Scratch Sheets & Results: https://data.orc.org/public/WEV.dll?action=index&eventid=uxauu
Facebook: facebook.com/orcestonia
Instagram: instagram.com/orcworlds2025tallinn
YouTube: youtube.com/@KalevJahtklubi
Photo galleries: Kalev Yacht Club Flickr albums
Follow the fleet in real time via TracTrac - powered by SEB Eesti
ORC Partners are Vennvind, TracTrac, PredictWind, and Leica Geosystems.
Media contacts - 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship
Info- and Media Manager
Piret Salmistu +372 507 7217
ORC - Offshore Racing Congress
Dobbs Davis
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