Sail number K9350Y

[PeterWright]

I read your posts

Hi Scottie,

See post 2 on this thread

and would include them in the "lot of good stuff" as you made no confusion between national authority issued numbers and class association issued ones. Nor did you suggest that the RORC rating office issues numbers.

You did however imply that these sail numbers have to do with racing, which is not their fundamental purpose, and say that the RYA would tell you a rating (which they won't, unless your boat is of a class which has a Portsmouth no.)

And it was,as I said, Geoid96 who referred Sophie to the correct department of the RYA.

Peter

 

[geoid96]

The RORC rating office issue rating certificates (Either IMS or IRC) for yachts whose owners wish to race under either of those handicap systems, AFAIK they have no role in issuing sail numbers .......

Peter,
A good summary, however my yacht has an 'R' suffixed sail number issued by the RORC Rating Office. See:
http://www.rorcrating.com/2009-rorc-rating-news/57-gbr-sail-numbers-online

 

[Keen_Ed]

The prefix changed, so a boat that used to be K471 became GBR471.
At least that's what happened in international classes.
I suspect a few classics still use K.
I think the change must have been in the 90's, with an overlap.

Change happened at least before the 96 Atlanta Olympics. Was to make sailing a bit more spectator friendly, so people like Canadian, Kiwi and Australian non-sailing spectators would have more of an idea about who to follow, if they hadn't been informed they should look for KC, KZ and KA respectively.

 

[Keen_Ed]

The RORC rating office issue rating certificates (Either IMS or IRC) for yachts whose owners wish to race under either of those handicap systems, AFAIK they have no role in issuing sail numbers.

[Pedant point, FWIW]
RORC has nothing to do with IMS, which actually doesn't exist any more. It was replaced by ORCi (for international) and ORCc (for Club). Both are administered by ORC - the offshore racing congress, who's secretariat is in Italy. ORC used to administer the offshore special regulations, but that's now done by ISAF.

The RORC rating office - the wholly owned subsidiary, based in Lymington, which together with UNCL runs the IRC rating system (they also do other stuff - swans etc), can issue sail numbers with an R suffix.
http://www.rorcrating.com/component...c-rating-news/57-gbr-sail-numbers-online.html

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[TimBennet]

Pedant point, FWIW]

No need to apologise - I don't think it's pedantry. I think if someone opens their thread with "Along with a lot of good stuff, there's a fair bit of misleading information in this thread" I think it's incumbent on them to get their facts right, especially when it contradicts accurate information already given.

 

[Rowana]

Rowana has simply "19" on the main as a number. Where does that come from?

Not that I'm really bothered, just curious.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Most likely it is the series number - i.e. the 19th of your classs to be built.

 

[PeterWright]

[Pedant point, FWIW]
RORC has nothing to do with IMS, which actually doesn't exist any more. It was replaced by ORCi (for international) and ORCc (for Club). Both are administered by ORC - the offshore racing congress, who's secretariat is in Italy. ORC used to administer the offshore special regulations, but that's now done by ISAF.

The RORC rating office - the wholly owned subsidiary, based in Lymington, which together with UNCL runs the IRC rating system (they also do other stuff - swans etc), can issue sail numbers with an R suffix.
http://www.rorcrating.com/component...c-rating-news/57-gbr-sail-numbers-online.html

[/PP]

Apologies, I was out of date on the replacement of IMS (which was dying around the world, except for the Med) by ORCi & ORCc in Jan 2008, thanks for the correction.

Also thanks to both you and Geoid96 for the info on RORC issued sail numbers - a nagging doubt on that caused me to put "AFAIK" against that comment. Now I know better!

Peter