Argentina

131 Argentine boats in the governed fleet. A LEANFORCE-led, Frers-anchored River Plate fleet — with a Class B world title from Sorrento to its name.

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 Hidden Shape

The hidden shape of the fleet.
The kinds of boat that keep appearing when every hull is measured the same way.

How every Argentine boat clusters, before the results arrive.
Kinship

The Frers fleet of the River Plate — and a Class B world title at Sorrento.

131 Argentine boats in the FleetEdge governed fleet — a fleet anchored by Germán Frers naval architecture (44 of 129 designer-attributed hulls, 34.1%), led by LEANFORCE compact-scale platforms at 28.2%, and carrying KATARA’s ORC Class B world title from Sorrento 2026 as its marquee international result.

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National fleet view · as of 2026-09-02

ORC Authority: ORC Central Rating Office

Argentine ORC certificates are issued centrally through the ORC Central Rating Office, and the marquee structural story is naval architecture — Germán Frers, Argentina’s most internationally renowned designer, accounts for 44 of the 129 designer-attributed hulls (34.1%), the largest single design-board share on any FleetEdge country page. PGYD — the Argentine board behind KATARA’s Pg-390 — follows, with Volker N (9) and Billoch M (7) carrying the domestic second tier.

LEANFORCE leads the archetype distribution at 28.2% (37 boats), with LEANRUN at 16.0% (21) and HEFTLINE at 13.0% (17) behind it — a compact-scale front rank of the Compact family over a large-scale, upright-sailing second tier, with KEELRUN at 10.7% (14) and AEROCORE at 8.4% (11) below them. The spread runs from the one-design tier to the 50-foot offshore boats, with Frers naval architecture supplying the structural backbone throughout.

The 2026 milestones run in two directions. Abroad, KATARA (ARG 5900, Pg-390 by PGYD, AEROCORE) won Class B at the ORC World Championship at Sorrento on 18 points, and FROM NOW ON (ARG 5835, Swan 45, AEROSTREAM) — the 2024 Rolex Swan Cup Class 7C GP winner — raced Class A at the same championship. See the full Class B citation on the 2026 ORC Worlds page. At home, seven Argentine boats met a 12-boat international field at the Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026 and took two of the three overall podium places — the selected result below.

National fleet view · 131 boats · as of 2026-09-02

At a glance

Argentina — structural profile.

Scope
131 boats
131 ORC-rated · 0 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANFORCE — 37 boats (28.2%)
  2. LEANRUN — 21 boats (16.0%)
  3. HEFTLINE — 17 boats (13.0%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes (the fleet’s eight recurring design types) cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Frers G
44 boats (33.6%) — the most-represented design voice in this fleet.

Counts and archetype assignments above are measured from the current corpus. Commentary below is interpretive.

National fleet view · as of 2026-09-02
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Argentine fleet.

131 Argentine boats — here’s how LEANFORCE’s 28.2% lead over LEANRUN (16.0%) and HEFTLINE (13.0%) reads against Germán Frers’ 33.6% share of the fleet, and what the combined signature reveals about Argentine offshore racing.

The Argentine ORC Fleet Signature

Argentina's fleet is led by LEANFORCE. LEANFORCE heads the latest published view at 28.2% (37 boats) — compact-scale hulls of the Compact family, and much the largest single block on this grid. LEANRUN follows at 16.0% (21 boats) — large-scale, upright-sailing platforms of the Large-Platform family. HEFTLINE sits third at 13.0% (17 boats), with KEELRUN at 10.7% (14 boats) and AEROCORE at 8.4% (11 boats) behind them. Germán Frers naval architecture supplies the structural backbone throughout.

  • LEANFORCE 28.2% · 37 boats
  • LEANRUN 16.0% · 21 boats
  • HEFTLINE 13.0% · 17 boats

Dimension emphasis: Hull Efficiency · Sail Drive Efficiency

The 2026 Argentine story runs from macro to micro: Germán Frers naval architecture at 34.1% of attributed hulls and a LEANFORCE-led archetype grid; KATARA’s ORC Class B world title at Sorrento 2026 abroad; and at home, a seven-boat Argentine race group taking two of the three overall podium places at the Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026 — the selected result below.

Complete data Latest published view

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 37
Share 28.2%
  • Elan 333
  • Miura
  • Dufour 30 Classic

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 21
Share 16.0%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

HEFTLINE

Compact scale · level posture · stiff reserve — measured upwind advantage in race results.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 17
Share 13.0%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

KEELRUN

Compact scale · upright posture · neutral reserve — upwind-neutral in race results.

strong upwind · strong reaching · strong downwind

Boats 14
Share 10.7%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

AEROSTREAM

Towering scale · level posture · stiff reserve — downwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 12
Share 9.2%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

AEROCORE

Large scale · tender reserve — downwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 11
Share 8.4%
  • First 45
  • First 40
  • Oceanis 43

SPARKFLEX

Minimal scale · upright posture · tender reserve — downwind-constrained in race results.

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 10
Share 7.6%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

AEROFORCE

Large scale · level posture · neutral reserve — measured reaching advantage in race results.

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 9
Share 6.9%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

Event cohort view · 7 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Racing Landscape

Argentine boats compete across 5 events in the FleetEdge fleet. The Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026 carries the deepest Argentine entry — the home Atlantic circuit, raced against a 12-boat international field. Two boats carried the flag to the 2026 ORC World Championship at Sorrento, where KATARA won Class B and FROM NOW ON raced Class A; KATARA went on to the 2026 Loro Piana Giraglia, finishing 5th in ORC 1; FROM NOW ON also took Class 7C GP at the 2024 Rolex Swan Cup in Sardinia, and two Argentine entries raced the 43rd Copa del Rey — the 2025 ORC European Championship.

The home circuit is where the Argentine fleet races itself. The selected result below is the 2026 Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur — the event with the deepest Argentine entries in the archive, a seven-race series in which the home fleet took two of the three overall podium places against visiting boats from France, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Selected Race Result

Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026 — Overall

7 of 131 fleet boats competed inside a 12-boat international field. 7 races, high-point scoring with a single discard, dated 30 January 2026 in the archive. Argentine boats took two of the three overall podium places.

Headlines

What led the Argentine entries at the Circuito Atlantico Sur.

The most recent event on the Argentine record in the current published view is the 73° LORO PIANA GIRAGLIA 2026 inshore series, raced 13 to 16 June 2026 out of Saint-Tropez — its full classified field closes this panel. The featured result on this page remains the 2026 Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur — here is what led the Argentine entries.

Series Standings

1. SANDOKAN · 2nd overall, 66 pts
2. MAC · 3rd overall, 62.2 pts
3. PATAGONIA · 5th overall, 54.8 pts

Upwind VMG (12 kt)

1. AMERICA DEL SUR · 6.13 kt
2. FINISTERRE · 5.91 kt
3. MERCENARIO 4 · 5.88 kt

Downwind VMG (12 kt)

1. SANDOKAN · 7.62 kt
2. PATAGONIA · 7.57 kt
3. MAC · 7.57 kt

Series Standings are the published overall event results (a single overall division with no class key published; high-point scoring, one discard); Upwind and Downwind VMG are certificate-derived predictions at 12 kt true wind across the 7 Argentine entries. Comparative Time and Crew Residual analytics are not published for this event — its data profile is rank results only. Source: FleetEdge published data (as of 2026-08-28).

Stories

What the 2026 Circuito Atlantico Sur entries revealed.

SANDOKAN: runner-up overall and the quickest Argentine platform in the field

SANDOKAN (ARG 5757, Fast 40+) finished 2nd overall on 66 points — 5.4 points behind the French TP-52 CRIOULA 52 (71.4) and best of the seven Argentine entries — while topping those seven on Downwind VMG at 12 kt (7.62 kt) and sitting 2nd among them on rated speed (503.1 s/nm, behind AMERICA DEL SUR's 499.9). The result and the certificate read the same way: the quickest Argentine platform in the field converted.

Source: published data — overall standings (rank 2, 66 pts) + certificate 12-kt VMG and rated-speed dimensions.

A Soto Acebal pair on the overall podium

Two of the three overall podium places went to Argentine boats from the same design board. SANDOKAN (Fast 40+) took 2nd on 66 points and MAC (ARG 001, S-40 OD) took 3rd on 62.2 — both Soto Acebal designs — behind only the visiting French TP-52 CRIOULA 52 (71.4). With PATAGONIA (S-40 OD) 5th and GAUCHO (Soto 40) 6th, the domestic Soto-design block filled four of the top six places in the 12-boat international field.

Source: published data — overall standings · SANDOKAN 66, MAC 62.2, CRIOULA 52 71.4, PATAGONIA 54.8, GAUCHO 44.

Race Archetypes

The Argentine group at the Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026.

The archetype composition of the Argentine entry returns here once the event view can be bound to the same Argentine group this panel is scoped to. Until that binding lands, this section carries the frame without the figures — the boats themselves, their standings, and their observed reads live in the sections above.

Race Archetypes

Classified boats at the ORC World Championship 2026 (8–14 May 2026).

Archetype assignments dated 2026-08-28 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

The ORC World Championship 2026 was raced 8–14 May 2026 off Sorrento — this is the full classified Worlds field, sorted by archetype as the fleet was classified at the time of the event: the towering AEROSTREAM platforms carry the largest block of the entry, with LEANRUN and AEROFORCE the next blocks behind. Argentina's flag in that field: KATARA and FROM NOW ON.

AEROSTREAM

Towering scale · level posture · stiff reserve — downwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 37
Share 36.6%

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 20
Share 19.8%

AEROFORCE

Large scale · level posture · neutral reserve — measured reaching advantage in race results.

Boats 15
Share 14.9%

AEROCORE

Large scale · tender reserve — downwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 13
Share 12.9%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

Boats 7
Share 6.9%

HEFTLINE

Compact scale · level posture · stiff reserve — measured upwind advantage in race results.

Boats 5
Share 5.0%

KEELRUN

Compact scale · upright posture · neutral reserve — upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 4
Share 4.0%

Classified fleet view · 131 of 131 classified · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet Stories

The Argentine fleet's signature.

Frers naval architecture anchors the Argentine fleet

Germán Frers is the dominant design voice in Argentina — 44 boats, 34.1% of the 129 designer-attributed hulls, the largest single design-board share on any FleetEdge country page. The Frers line runs from the Match 30 and Pandora 31 club one-designs through the 50-foot offshore tier. PGYD follows, with Volker N (9) and Billoch M (7) behind — a national grid where the home design boards, led emphatically by Frers, draw the fleet.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Argentine racing.

Fayd 30 (6)

A racer-cruiser from Ast Fayd.

Match 30 (5)

A racer-cruiser from Ast Speed Craft.

Pandora 31 (5)

A racer-cruiser from Ast Marco.

N-34.5 (4)

A racer-cruiser from Nuevo Milenio.

Soto 33 (4)

A Soto Acebal design.

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2026 ORC Worlds — Sorrento

KATARA’s Class B world title and the four-class championship at Sorrento, May 2026 — the marquee result the Argentine fleet carries forward.

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The Fleet Archetypes

LEANFORCE, LEANRUN, HEFTLINE, AEROCORE — the canonical performance archetypes that cluster every fleet by dimensional signature.

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