{"id":160957,"date":"2025-08-17T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/all-new-world-champions-crowned-at-the-2025-garmin-orc-world-championship-sail-world-com\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:45:03","slug":"all-new-world-champions-crowned-at-the-2025-garmin-orc-world-championship-sail-world-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/all-new-world-champions-crowned-at-the-2025-garmin-orc-world-championship-sail-world-com\/","title":{"rendered":"All New World Champions crowned at the 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship – Sail-World.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two inshore races sponsored by ALTER MARINE were completed today on Tallinn Bay, three new ORC World Champions have emerged at the 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship.<\/strong>
Each had been at the top of their leaderboards for most of the week and have demonstrated their prowess in the mixed format of inshore and offshore racing in conditions that varied from light air to today’s blustery 20-25 knot winds.
In Class A, the new World Champions are the team on Niklas Zennstrom’s Carkeek Fast 40+ RAN (SWE) based on a scoreline of 6-3-1-1-1-2-1 in the series raced among 8 entries. Sailing with Zennstrom was an international team of professional talent that included Adrian Stead, Tim Powell, Steve Hayles, Justin Slattery, Toby Iles, Joy Fitzgerald, Tom Kiff, Griffin Spinney and Mark Lees. <\/p>\n

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RAN hitting speeds over 22 knots today in Class A – 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship – photo © Janis Spurdzins \/ Kalev Yacht Club<\/a><\/div>\n

Asked about the brisk conditions of today’s racing, Zennstrom said “We’re comfortable sailing in a lot of wind, the boat has a lot of stability and is quite light, but today was all about making it around the race course in one piece.” Zennstrom and team mate Joy Fitzgerald reckon they saw a top speed of 22.6 knots on one of the downwind legs.
Next up for the team is the IRC European Championship in Bonafacio, Corsica, but Zennstrom said they don’t plan to make any changes to the boat to race under IRC. In fact, he said he thinks the ORC system is doing well to fairly rate a fast boat such as RAN among others that are not so fast.
“Our boat is set up to be as fast as possible, and our impression was that ORC boats were set up to be slower, so I think its interesting to see that fast boats can also be competitive in ORC. It’s a good testament to the rating rule that it does not bias one or the other.”