NEWSOffshore racing assessment partnership15/12/2022Save articleMarineShift360, a marine industry specific lifecycle assessment tool and the International Monohull Open Class Association have agreed a formal partnership focused on understanding the environmental impacts of high-performance offshore racing.SHOW FULLSCREENMarineShift360 is to become an official sustainability partner to the IMOCA ClassAs part of the agreement, MarineShift360 will become an official sustainability partner to the IMOCA, facilitating the Class in analysing and understanding their full lifecycle impacts.The partnership follows on from the MarineShift360 development period, where IMOCA was a pilot partner.The Class will continue to run a lifecycle assessment involving all competing teams with the aim of the partnership being to understand the true environmental impact of building and campaigning the IMOCA Open 60.The organisations have already started collecting data from new IMOCA builds and compiling the results.Long-term the organisations hope to introduce rules and regulations that will reduce the environmental impacts of high-performance boat building and racing, not just within the IMOCA but across the wider offshore racing community.These could include specifying low impact construction process or using 100% recyclable moulds.A key benefit of the partnership will be to utilise learnings from IMOCA, which operate at the leading edge of marine technology development, to share across the wider marine industry, explained Imogen Dinham-Price, IMOCA Sustainability Manager.The tool is backed by MarineShift360’s founding sponsor, 11th Hour Racing and developed and managed by sustainability consultancy Anthesis.MarineShift360 won a DAME Category Award in 2022.

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