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20 St. James's Place became the RORC Clubhouse on Christmas Day in 1941. The area is known for its luxury shops, hotels, and restaurants, as well as royal and diplomatic establishments including Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, Green Park, and the Ritz London hotel.

The Georgian townhouse offering a 'home from home' for members and their guests to enjoy elegant en-suite accommodation, an intimate dining room with a weekly changing menu, bar and a variety of rooms available to hire.

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LONDON — At the clubhouse of the Royal Ocean Racing Club here, the only ocean in sight is in the oil paintings that hang on the walls and in the stairwells.

The real Celtic Sea and its frothy perils are far removed from No.20 St. James’s Place, the club’s fashionable address in central, mind’s-eye London, near Green Park and a short stroll from Buckingham Palace.

“I remember once sailing on an Italian boat and they introduced me as a neighbor of the queen,” said Eddie Warden Owen, the club’s chief executive officer.

The club, which stages the Rolex Fastnet Race, does have an office in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. That’s the starting point for the Fastnet, which begins Sunday, as well as for many of the club’s other offshore regattas.

But the heart of the matter remains here in London, behind a Georgian brick facade at the end of the oddly shaped L of a street where Rupert Murdoch has a penthouse apartment and where the late Princess Diana’s ancestors built Spencer House, one of London’s last 18th- century private palaces. It has been restored for an estimated £16 million, or $24 million, by its billionaire tenant, Jacob Rothschild, and is now the headquarters for his investment company.

“I can see from the outside point of view that it looks a bit odd that we are sitting in the middle of St. James’s, but it works,” said Janet Grosvenor, a club member and former Fastnet race director. “It was a group of businessmen who founded the club and the logical place for them to meet and come together was London, and they wanted it to be international, too.”

As of July, the club had 3,265 members from 65 countries. Nearly 2,000 members are based in Britain but there are 1,308 members based overseas, 269 of them in the United States. Female members are allowed, as they are not at some other British yacht clubs, but there were only 289 as of July.

To qualify for membership, candidates must have completed no less than 500 offshore racing miles, or 800 kilometers, and have spent at least two nights at sea. There are apparently no exceptions.

“You can’t buy membership,” Grosvenor said. “You can’t just ring up and say, ‘I want to be a member.’ You have to do the mileage. You’ve got to have the background and have got to be proposed and seconded.”

The American media magnate Ted Turner, who won the Fastnet on corrected time in 1979 with Tenacious, is a R.O.R.C. member. Honorary members include King Juan Carlos of Spain and King Harald V of Norway.

Despite its high-born connections, high-rent address and imposing façade, the club is surprisingly informal. Coat and tie might be obligatory for men at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in nearby Knightsbridge, but there is no dress code at the R.O.R.C.

“We don’t pretend to be anything we’re not and that’s the good thing,” said Mark Newens, the house manager. “The great thing here is every member has to have qualified through ocean racing and therefore you know when you’re meeting a member that they’ve all shared the same common experience: Get wet, get cold, get miserable, and have a few drinks afterwards.”

Sometimes more than a few drinks.

“You see some great party tricks,” Newens said. “There’s one member who is very high up in a bank who can put a pint on top of his head and he can sit on the floor, pick the pint up with his feet and drink it. That’s usually at 2 in the morning.”

The club is a newcomer in British terms. The Royal Thames, the oldest sailing club in Britain, was founded in 1775. The Royal Yacht Squadron — with its clubhouse in Cowes Castle — was founded in 1815.

The Ocean Racing Club was not established until 1925 and was inspired by the Cruising Club of America, which had resurrected the Newport-Bermuda race in 1923. Weston Martyr, a former gold miner and trader turned writer who was then living in New York, had taken part in the race and was convinced that his fellow Britons required something similar.

With Martyr lobbying in and out of print, the decision was made to start a race from Cowes. There was support for racing to the Spanish port of Vigo, but Martyr’s route around the Fastnet Rock off the southern Irish coast prevailed.

Sixteen boats entered, but only seven started on Aug. 15, 1925. Jolie Brise, a converted French pilot cutter, was the winner, and before the last boat had finished, the Ocean Racing Club was founded at a dinner in Plymouth.

It later received royal patronage and has long been known by its acronym, R.O.R.C. But it did not come to St. James’s Place until 1942, with World War II in full roar. The club’s quarters in Pall Mall Place had been destroyed and the newly hired steward killed by a bomb in November 1940.

According to Ian Dear’s book, “The Royal Ocean Racing Club: The First 75 Years,” the club’s secretary, Pete Peterson, and others managed to salvage much of the contents of the wine cellar, carrying the bottles to safety under a blanket on a stretcher.

“Onlookers lifted their hats respectfully as the two men maneuvered ‘the body’ out of the ruins,” Dear wrote. “Afterward Peterson sent a telegram to the commodore: ‘Clubhouse bombed. Steward killed. Wine saved.”’

A German bomb also destroyed the roof and some of the walls of No.20 St. James’s Place before the club made the decision to move in. But the new clubhouse was inaugurated on July 23, 1942.

There were some problems with the new neighbors, chiefly the American soldiers who were billeted a few doors away in the Stafford Hotel.

One crashed a vehicle into the railings in front of the clubhouse and Peterson was later moved to write a letter to the local police — according to Dear — asking for them to “discourage the excessive number of young women who were attracted to St. James’s Place by the existence of the American Army billet. They hang about and are becoming rather a nuisance. An even more serious matter is the use made of this Place by a more professional type of woman.”

But as peace returned to Britain, so did peace and quiet eventually return to the neighborhood, and the club quickly resumed its racing activities after the war.

The club’s now-defunct Admirals Cup — an offshore competition between national teams that ran from 1957 to 2003 — was particularly successful at its peak.

The club’s low point was unquestionably the 1979 Fastnet Race, in which 15 sailors were killed when a tremendous storm struck the bulk of the fleet when it was well into open water. Only 85 of the 303 boats that started managed to complete the race.

Grosvenor, working in the organization that year, remembers pushing on through the horror.

“I can remember going home and I probably cried for two days because you just have to let it out,” she said. “I knew some of them and dealing with some of the next of kin afterwards was… well, I suppose the question in my mind was, ‘What are we doing?’ It’s supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to be enjoyable, and this is what happened. But I don’t know. I just stayed with it and then I guess you feel, how can I make a difference?”

Grosvenor and the club did so by making safety and safety training even more of a priority. They became early adopters of tracking technology on competing yachts and postponed the start of the race — an unprecedented, protocol-breaking move — for 25 hours in 2007 when weather patterns similar to the 1979 storm posed a threat.

Grosvenor and the club leaders decided it was best that the fleet take the brunt of the storm closer to shore. There were critics, of course, but there were no fatalities, which makes it hard to argue further.

The club — even without ties in the clubhouse — has gathered heft. There is the Fastnet Room, with its photos of club admirals past. There is the Jolie Brise Room, with its seascapes and big meeting table. And out the heavy front door decorated with the club’s trademark seahorse, there is London, central-casting London: no froth, no waves.

In an earlier version of this article, Eddie Warden Owen’s name was misspelled in a photo caption.

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Candidates for Ocean Racing Membership must have completed no less than 500 miles racing offshore including at least two nights at sea, and if possible, at least one RORC race, within the last five years.

Candidates for Corinthian membership should have a background of sailing experience and support the objectives of the Club.

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    RORC Members are part of a unique, famous club, dedicated to encouraging all forms of yacht racing to all sailors. Royal Ocean Racing Club Ltd. Company registered in England & Wales. Registration No. 6035496 20 St James's Place, London, SW1A 1NN T: +44 (0) 20 7493 2248 F: +44 (0) 20 7493 5252 Powered by

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    RORC Members are part of a unique, famous club, dedicated to encouraging all forms of yacht racing to all sailors. Royal Ocean Racing Club Ltd. Company registered in England & Wales. Registration No. 6035496 20 St James's Place, London, SW1A 1NN T: +44 (0) 20 7493 2248 F: +44 (0) 20 7493 5252 Powered by

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    RORC Members are part of a unique, famous club, dedicated to encouraging all forms of yacht racing to all sailors. Royal Ocean Racing Club Ltd. Company registered in England & Wales. Registration No. 6035496 20 St James's Place, London, SW1A 1NN T: +44 (0) 20 7493 2248 F: +44 (0) 20 7493 5252 Powered by

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    The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) is a yachting club based in the United Kingdom that was founded in 1925. The club was formed with the goal of promoting offshore racing and encouraging the development of yacht design. The first race organized by the RORC was the Fastnet Race, which was held in 1925 and became an annual event.

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    RORC members and their guests can enjoy comfortable accommodation, fine dining and social activities at two clubhouses. Be it in the elegant surroundings of the Georgian townhouse in St James's, London or overlooking the Solent from the Clubhouse in the centre of British yachting, Cowes, members can relax in their own 'home from home'.

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    The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) is recognised as the premier organiser of racing for offshore yachts around the world and is a leading authority on safety at sea. Established in 1925, the Club's Fastnet Race has become the world's largest offshore race by number of entries. Supported by Rolex since 2001, the Rolex Fastnet Race attracts over ...

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  18. RORC Transatlantic Race

    Watch on. The 10th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race started on Sunday 7th January 2024 from Marina Lanzarote, Canary Islands and finish at Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina in Grenada, Caribbean. The RORC Transatlantic Race forms part of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Season Points Championships, the world's largest offshore racing ...

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    Club Information. The Royal London Yacht Club was formed in 1838 and is one of the oldest and most prestigious Yacht Clubs in Britain. The elegant Regency Clubhouse is a private Members Club which welcomes Reciprocal Club Members and other guests. The main features are: * 10 bedrooms, most of which are en suite, have recently been redecorated ...

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    Welcome to the Royal London Yacht Club. The Club is one of the most historic and prestigious Yacht Clubs in Great Britain. The elegant Regency Clubhouse with eleven beautiful bedrooms and several function rooms has recently been refurbished and upgraded. The Club is situated on The Parade, Cowes, Isle of Wight with a unique waterfront position ...

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