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RORC & Future of Offshore Racing
FirstShift intelligence on RORC, participation, pathways, rating debates, race formats and the future direction of offshore yacht racing.
Offshore yacht racing: How do we create the next generation and who pays for it?
RORC has rebuilt a serious route into offshore racing. The next step is to fund it as part of the sport’s infrastructure, rather than as an annual act of generosity.
Stuart Greenfield
8 min read
Offshore racing is now two sports. The results prove it.
No fully crewed boat has won the RORC Season’s Points Championship since 2021. A modest proposal for the results sheet, and a harder question about the autopilot.
Stuart Greenfield
5 min read
The hardest thing in offshore racing is other people - Is it time to change who gets to win?
Building, training and leading a crew through an offshore season is one of sport’s great challenges. It’s time the silverware said so...a crazy proposal... you decide!
Stuart Greenfield
11 min read
Expensive, Elitist, Ridiculous — and Still Bloody Magnificent
Can ocean racing still turn money and ego into courage, competence and trust?
Stuart Greenfield
13 min read
IS OFFSHORE RACING IN CRISIS — OR JUST EVOLVING?
A view from 50 years offshore, by Stuart Greenfield, RYA Yachtmaster and racing coach
Stuart Greenfield
3 min read
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