This is the story of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, from its inception in August 1925 up to the beginning of the new millennium and all the challenges that this presents. Because of the RORC's unique position of founding modern ocean racing in Britain-and then of nurturing its early years, reviving it after the Second World War, introducing the Admiral's Cup in the 1950s, encouraging the sport's subsequent expansion internationally, steering it through the choppy waters of the International Offshore Rule, and being in the forefront of the yacht development and rule changes that are now taking place-it is as much the story of the development of the sport in Britain as it is about just one sailing club. Ocean racing has always been one of the toughest-and most expensive-sports that anyone can indulge in. For that reason it has always attracted charismatic, swashbuckling and sometimes eccentric individuals, and from the committee minutes and correspondence in the club's archives, as well as from many other sources, the author has unearthed a treasure trove of anecdote and historical material which reveals just how much fun ocean racing was, and still is.