COWES will be the focus for most of the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Season's Points Championship — the world's largest offshore racing series — for the year ahead. 

The 2024 RORC Season’s Points Championship is already underway — the first points scoring race was the Rolex Middle Sea Race in October. 

Class winners for the RORC Season are decided by the best five race results over the season, which ends in September. 

The next two scoring races are the RORC Transatlantic Race, and the RORC Caribbean 600 this month, but after them, all the Season's Points Championship races are held in Northern Europe, with most of them starting on the Royal Yacht Squadron Line, Cowes.

During 2024, the Cowes-based RORC is organising or assisting with four inshore racing events — The RORC Easter Challenge, The GBR IRC National Championships, The Vice Admiral’s Cup and the IRC European Championships. 

For more than 20 years, the RORC has held a training regatta over the Easter weekend, with three days of racing on The Solent.

Easter Sunday is always popular with children — and those young at heart — for the customary Easter Egg toss.  

The GBR IRC National Championships, first held in 1999, will see racing split over two weekends, jointly run by the RORC and the Royal Thames Yacht Club. 

The RORC Cowes Clubhouse will be regatta central for fun-filled evening entertainment, especially the prizegiving event, during The Vice Admiral’s Cup.