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In association with The Royal Thames Yacht Club & The Royal Ocean Racing Club 2009 EAORA Youth The Insure & Go 7 race series, has just completed its second year with 20 cadets from member clubs racing offshore on 10 boats. The cadets raced a total of 4188 miles with Tim Galloway collecting the prize for the Most Offshore Miles Raced. Read more... 60th EAORA Prizegiving EAORA would like to thank Commodore Michael Wallis & his team at the Medway Yacht Club for hosting a superb prizegiving dinner & party on Saturday 17th October 2009.18 boats were represented with a host of trophies being collected by this years winners. Download the winners list! Raffle Donations The EAORA committee would like to thank all the companies & boats that supported the prizegiving in particular Sudbury Print Group & Wallis the Florist. Download the full list here!	EAORA 2010 2010 Programme Be sure to download and view the 2010 programme... Here's to a good 2010 season! Download and read the 2010 programme Buckley Goblets Fifteen boats came to the start line at the Nass Beacon at West Mersea for the last race of the EAORA 2009 season, including new competitors, Alan Page with his Benneteau 44.7, Ko Ko Kai (Royal Temple Yacht Club) and Cracker (Stephen Heppell's IMX 40). There was a distinct autumnal nip in the air as Class 3 got away at 0700, with the Class 2 and Class 3 boats hot on their heels reaching out of the River Blackwater to the Colne Bar buoy with a 15 to 17 knot north-easterly breeze... Read the whole Buckley Goblets Report The Houghton Cup Saturday 29th August dawned bright and breezy with a 15 to 20 knot westerly breeze and clear skies for the penultimate EAORA race of the season. The race officer set an excellent new 55 mile course out of the Crouch and round the Barrow sands... Read the whole Houghton Cup Report The Harwich Race The Harwich race started at the Branklet buoy in the Crouch with a westerly breeze of up to 22 knots and a foul tide. With a downwind first leg, Class 3 got off to a flying start with Tony and Chuffy Merewether's Sunfast 32, Amazon, accelerating off in front... Read the whole Harwich Race Report The Walker Challenge Race The Walker Challenge Race started at the Harwich entrance off Dovercourt Breakwater early on Saturday morning with winds gusting up to 30 knots from the west. The Class 3 boats got off to a flying start, fetching out to the Medusa buoy... Read the whole Walker Challenge Race Report Cannon Ball Race The Cannon Ball Started in the Markermere just outside the Muden Harbour entrance. After the fleets lay day the day before after a grueling East Coast race everyone was chomping on the bit at the start line, with the wind in a northerly direction a good course was to be set. Read the whole Cannon Ball Report RORC East Coast Race The RORC East Coast race, the final east coast Fastnet qualifier and the EAORA week feeder race, started at Harwich with a good westerly breeze. An exciting downwind start from the Beacon Hill line saw yachts race away along the south side of the Harwich deep water channel toward Rough, the first turning mark. Read the whole East Coast Race Report RORC North Sea Race 12 of the 56 IRC entrants for the RORC North Sea Race were East Anglian Offshore Racing Association Yachts. Bright sun and 10-15kts of breeze got the yachts away from the start and towards the South Galloper buoy. Read the whole North Sea Race Report
Resources PDF Downloads Memorandum On Safety Special Regulations Checklist Web Links RORC Rating Office	Want To Get Started? It is not difficult to race offshore. Yachts competing have to hold an approved category 3 Safety Regulations (see resources section to the left) and an endorsed IRC Certificate 2009 which is obtainable from the RORC rating office. If you would like to know more please contact any EAORA committee member featured on the Contact list page.