Argentina

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

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

130 Argentine boats in the FleetEdge governed fleet — a fleet anchored by Germán Frers naval architecture (44 of 128 designer-attributed hulls, 34.4%), led by STORMLINE rough-water platforms at 17.7%, 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 2026-06-21

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 128 designer-attributed hulls (34.4%), the largest single design-board share on any FleetEdge country page. PGYD — the Argentine board behind KATARA’s Pg-390 — follows at 12 boats (9.4%), with Volker N (8) and Billoch M (7) carrying the domestic second tier.

STORMLINE leads the archetype distribution at 17.7% (23 boats), with GLIDEFORM at 14.6% (19) and IRONWIND at 13.8% (18) behind it — together just under half the fleet. Rough-water specialists in front, low-drag upwind flow and stiff stable-drive platforms underneath: a long-running design preference consistent with the short, steep estuary chop of the River Plate and the open Atlantic courses south of it, with Frers naval architecture supplying the structural backbone across all three modes.

The 2026 milestones run in two directions. Abroad, KATARA (ARG 5900, Pg-390 by PGYD, DEEPFRAME) won Class B at the ORC World Championship at Sorrento on 18 points, and FROM NOW ON (ARG 5835, Swan 45, AEROBLADE) — 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, eight 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.

At a glance

Argentina — structural profile.

Scope
130 boats
130 ORC-rated · 0 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. STORMLINE — 23 boats (17.7%)
  2. GLIDEFORM — 19 boats (14.6%)
  3. IRONWIND — 18 boats (13.8%)
Eleven canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Frers G
44 boats (33.8%) — 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 2026-06-21
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Argentine fleet.

130 Argentine boats — here’s how a STORMLINE 17.7% lead over GLIDEFORM (14.6%) and IRONWIND (13.8%) reads against the Germán Frers 34.4% design-board leading share, and what the combined signature reveals about Argentine offshore racing.

The Argentine ORC Fleet Signature

Argentina's fleet is led by STORMLINE. STORMLINE carries 17.7% (23 boats) — rough-water specialists with hull shapes optimized for steep, short waves, at home in the River Plate's shallow estuary chop. GLIDEFORM follows at 14.6% (19 boats) — low-drag hulls with efficient upwind flow and moderate displacement. IRONWIND rounds the top three at 13.8% (18 boats), stiff stable-drive platforms with predictable load behavior. Just under half the fleet sits in the top three archetypes, with Germán Frers naval architecture supplying the structural backbone across all three.

  • STORMLINE 17.7% · 23 boats
  • GLIDEFORM 14.6% · 19 boats
  • IRONWIND 13.8% · 18 boats

Dimension emphasis: Hull Efficiency · Sail Drive Efficiency

The 2026 Argentine story runs from macro to micro: Germán Frers naval architecture at 34.4% of attributed hulls and a STORMLINE-led archetype grid; KATARA’s ORC Class B world title at Sorrento 2026 abroad; and at home, an eight-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

STORMLINE

Rough-water specialist with a hull shape optimized for steep, short waves.

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 23
Share 17.7%
  • J/111
  • J/121
  • Fast 40+

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull with efficient upwind flow and moderate displacement.

weak upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 19
Share 14.6%
  • J/109
  • Dehler 38
  • Italia 11

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 18
Share 13.8%
  • J/122
  • XP-44
  • Swan 45

DEEPFRAME

Deep-hull efficiency paired with a stiff platform for drag-optimized flow.

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 14
Share 10.8%
  • Swan 60
  • Nautor custom
  • ClubSwan 50

AEROBLADE

Light, agile platform optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 13
Share 10.0%
  • Class 40
  • IMOCA derivatives
  • Pogo 30

AEROMAX

Power-efficiency hybrid with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement.

strong upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 11
Share 8.5%
  • TP52
  • GP42
  • Melges IC37

GRAVITYRUN

Heavy-mode momentum boat with strong downwind power in sustained breeze.

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 11
Share 8.5%
  • Swan 47
  • C&C 41
  • Sigma 38

KEELFLEX

Narrow stability window; fast when perfectly balanced, punishing when not.

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 9
Share 6.9%
  • First 30
  • X-35
  • J/35

STEELCORE

Platform-rigid hull with low heel sensitivity and high righting-moment stability.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 6
Share 4.6%
  • First 40
  • Bavaria C42
  • Hanse 388

HEADFORCE

High righting moment, upwind-biased hull that powers through chop.

strong upwind · weak reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 4
Share 3.1%
  • First 34.7
  • Grand Soleil 37
  • Sun Fast 3300

STEELFORM

Heavy-displacement hull with strong directional stability.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 2
Share 1.5%
  • J/70
  • Farr 280
  • SB20
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, 34.4% of the 128 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 at 12 boats (9.4%), with Volker N (8) and Billoch M (7) behind — a national grid where the home design boards, led emphatically by Frers, draw the fleet.

STORMLINE leads the Argentine fleet

STORMLINE is Argentina's structural preference — 23 boats, 17.7% of the classified fleet, ahead of GLIDEFORM (14.6%) and IRONWIND (13.8%). The rough-water specialist — a hull shape optimized for steep, short waves — is the platform Argentine owners keep choosing for the River Plate's shallow estuary chop and the Atlantic courses beyond it: a long-running design preference, not a single-season effect.

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.

Racing Landscape

Argentine boats compete across 4 events in the FleetEdge fleet. The Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026 carries the deepest Argentine entry at 8 boats — 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; FROM NOW ON also took Class 7C GP at the 2024 Rolex Swan Cup in Sardinia, and one Argentine-flagged entry raced Charleston Race Week 2025.

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

8 of 130 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.

Series Standings

1. SANDOKAN · 2nd overall, 66 pts
2. MAC · 3rd overall, 62.2 pts
3. PATAGONIA · 5th overall, 54.8 pts
Cohort 8 boats

Upwind VMG (12 kt)

1. AMERICA DEL SUR · 6.13 kt
2. CONTESSA · 5.91 kt
3. FINISTERRE · 5.91 kt
Cohort 8 boats

Downwind VMG (12 kt)

1. SANDOKAN · 7.65 kt
2. PATAGONIA · 7.59 kt
3. MAC · 7.57 kt
Cohort 8 boats

Series Standings are the published overall event results (high-point scoring, one discard); Upwind and Downwind VMG are certificate-derived predictions at 12 kt true wind across the 8 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 2026-06-21).

Stories

What the Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026 entries revealed.

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

SANDOKAN (ARG 5757, Fast 40+, AEROBLADE) finished 2nd of 12 overall on 66 points — 5.4 points behind the French TP-52 CRIOULA 52 (71.4) and best of the eight Argentine entries — while topping the race group on Downwind VMG at 12 kt (7.65 kt) and sitting 2nd on rated speed (GPH 502.4 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 dimensions run_vmg_12kt, gph_s_per_nm.

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+, AEROBLADE) took 2nd on 66 points and MAC (ARG 001, S-40 OD, DEEPFRAME) took 3rd on 62.2 — both Soto Acebal designs, in two different archetypes — 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.

An AEROBLADE-heavy Atlantic Sur entry

The Circuito Atlantico Sur entry looks nothing like the Argentine fleet at large. AEROBLADE is 10.0% of the 130-boat fleet (13 boats) but 62.5% of the 8-boat entry (5 boats) — more than six times its baseline share — with DEEPFRAME carrying the other three (37.5% against a 10.8% baseline). Fleet-leader STORMLINE, 17.7% of the national grid, did not start at all. The light, quick-accelerating platforms and the deep-hull stiff frames turned out for the offshore circuit; the race composition is not the fleet composition.

Source: FleetEdge ARG fleet baseline (130 boats) vs event cohort FleetEdge archetype assignments (8).

Race Archetypes

8 boats classified in Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026.

The Argentine Circuito entry, sorted by archetype. AEROBLADE carries five of the eight boats — more than six times its 10.0% fleet baseline, including overall runner-up SANDOKAN — with DEEPFRAME's three entries, among them third-placed MAC, making up the rest.

AEROBLADE

Light, agile platform optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed.

Boats 5
Share 62.5%

DEEPFRAME

Deep-hull efficiency paired with a stiff platform for drag-optimized flow.

Boats 3
Share 37.5%
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