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IRC is a rating rule to handicap different designs of keelboats allowing them to race together. Each boat’s rating (her ‘handicap’) is calculated using measurements of the boat; her length, weight, draft, sail area, etc. The resulting time corrector, the boat’s ‘TCC’, is her handicap. After a race, each boat’s elapsed time (the time she has taken to complete the course) is multiplied by her TCC to calculate her corrected time (her race time making allowance for the characteristics of the boat). The boat with the shortest corrected time is the winner of the race.

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Show news Centenary edition respects the legend
Quotes from the Rolex Fastnet Race winners
Posted on 1 Aug Last hurrah for centennial Rolex Fastnet Race
20kt breeze gives welcome momentum to the final boats attempting to finish
Posted on 1 Aug J/99 claims Rolex Fastnet Race's IRC Three
Winning by 19 minutes corrected time
Posted on 31 Jul Léon wins the Rolex Fastnet Race
Alexis Loison and Jean-Pierre Kelbert have won the event in its centenary year
Posted on 31 Jul Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta
Looking back on 2025 and forward to 2026
Posted on 31 Jul Superstar last minute entry into race
Elizabeth Tucker enters her Class 40 in the GCCM Gold Coast Mackay Yacht Race
Posted on 31 Jul Gold Coast Mackay Yacht Race starts tomorrow
Connecting two regional cities with the glamour and passion of sailing
Posted on 31 Jul 2025 New Quay Yacht Club Keel Boat Regatta
West Wales was blessed with perfect sailing conditions on Cardigan Bay
Posted on 31 Jul Rolex Fastnet finishers wait with bated breath
Aiming to claim the elusive prize for IRC Overall
Posted on 30 Jul Cowes Week 2025: The countdown to race time begins
Anticipation is building for one of the world's most iconic regattas
Posted on 30 Jul Anticipation rises in centenary Rolex Fastnet Race
The podium places in the different classes have begun to take shape
Posted on 30 Jul Team Django claims Admiral's Cup podium finish
Third place overall for the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda team in a world-class international fleet
Posted on 30 Jul A Crown for the Principality
Yacht Club de Monaco wins the 2025 Admiral's Cup
Posted on 30 Jul A defining finale to the Admiral's Cup 2025
Provisional results are in and the overall winner will be officially announced today
Posted on 30 Jul Fastnet Race 2025 | D4 Update from Cherbourg
Update on the leaderboard across the different classes
Posted on 29 Jul Fastnet Race, RS Aeros, Isle of Wight
Fastnet Race, RS Aero Worlds, GL50s, Isle of Wight circumnavigation
Posted on 29 Jul Rolex Fastnet Race Day 4
Black Jack 100 takes monohull line honours ahead of arch rivals
Posted on 29 Jul Admiral's Cup in the Rolex Fastnet Race update
ROST Van Uden surge into AC1 lead
Posted on 29 Jul First finishers in centenary Rolex Fastnet Race
The best of the battles was delivered by the 100 foot Maxis
Posted on 29 Jul Black Jack 100 Claims Monohull Line Honours
Arriving in Cherbourgh early this morning in the Rolex Fastnet Race
Posted on 29 Jul Smuggler puts down hammer and goes unchallenged
In the 2025 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race
Posted on 29 Jul Fastnet Race 2025 | Black Jack 100 wins
Black Jack 100 takes the Erivale Trophy for Monohull Line Honours.
Posted on 29 Jul Fastnet Race 2025 | Interview with Linda Goddard
The latest from Cherbourg as well as Bedouin before that start and a compilation of the start itsel
Posted on 28 Jul Rolex Fastnet Race Day 3
SVR Lazartigue defends her multihull line honours
Posted on 28 Jul Admiral's Cup in the Rolex Fastnet Race update
Black Pearl leads the charge cround the Rock
Posted on 28 Jul Fastnet Race 2025 | Interview with Alice Parker
Interview with Alice Parker and the latest from the dock in Cherbourg
Posted on 28 Jul Rolex Fastnet Race: SVR Lazartigue wins
SVR Lazartigue is the first of three Ultim 100ft foiling trimaran, to finish the 2025 Rolex Fastnet
Posted on 28 Jul Rolex Fastnet Race Start - Martin Augustus Gallery
Mainly focusing on the IRC classes who make up the majority of the 444 yacht fleet
Posted on 28 Jul Rolex Fastnet Race 2025 | Race Start Pics
A vastly different scene from the last two Fastnet's and the boat-breaking conditions
Posted on 28 Jul Rolex Fastnet Race Start - Jason Ludlow Gallery
A superb gallery of some of the fastest offshore yachts in the world
Posted on 27 Jul
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Prizegiving ceremony for Black Jack, monohull line honours - centenary Rolex Fastnet Race
© Stefano Gattini Prizegiving ceremony for Léon, overall victory under IRC time correction - centenary Rolex Fastnet Race
© Stefano Gattini Black Jack - centenary Rolex Fastnet Race
© Carlo Borlenghi A highly successful centenary Rolex Fastnet Race is into its last moments
© Arthur Daniel Raphael takes second in IRC4 - centenary Rolex Fastnet Race
© Paul Wyeth Abracadabra 2's Alban Mesnil and Romain Gibon celebrate their IRC Four win - centenary Rolex Fastnet Race
© Arthur Daniel / RORC First in IRC One is Long Courrier - centenary Rolex Fastnet Race
© Paul Wyeth / RORC Richard Matthews of Oystercatcher completed his 26th Rolex Fastnet Race
© James Tomlinson / RORC Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com Apocalyptic conditions during an evening race in July at Lymington
© Jason Ludlow / www.jasonludlow.com
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