Austria

Landlocked sailing. Alpine lake racing with offshore campaigns on Neusiedlersee and Attersee — with a reach that runs from the Aegean to the Caribbean.

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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 Austrian boat clusters, before the results arrive.
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An Austrian fleet led by AEROFORCE, with AEROCORE next and LEANRUN third.

58 Austrian boats under OeSV — an Alpine lake program on Neusiedlersee, Attersee and Traunsee that projects outward to the Mediterranean and Atlantic offshore circuit. AEROFORCE leads the archetype distribution at 24.1% (14 boats) — large platforms with a level posture and a neutral righting reserve, with a measured reaching advantage in race results — with AEROCORE at 20.7% and LEANRUN at 15.5% behind it, and HEFTLINE and KEELRUN level at 10.3% next. At this fleet size, the structural read is real but small-sample sensitive: every share moves visibly with a single new boat.

58
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8
archetypes
13
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National fleet view · as of 2026-09-02

ORC Authority: OeSV · Österreichischer Segel-Verband

The Österreichischer Segel-Verband governs a landlocked fleet shaped by conditions unlike any coastal nation. Thermal winds on Attersee, the shallow expanse of Neusiedlersee, and the confined waters of Traunsee build crews with close-quarters tactical discipline. Fifty-eight boats carry a FleetEdge identity under the Austrian flag — small by fleet standards but broadly engaged across the Mediterranean and Atlantic offshore circuit, with international racing reach that exceeds the domestic fleet size.

The Austrian archetype distribution has a clear leader. AEROFORCE heads the fleet at 24.1% (14 boats) — large platforms with a level posture and a neutral righting reserve, with a measured reaching advantage in race results. AEROCORE is next at 20.7% (12 boats) — large platforms on a tender reserve, downwind-neutral in race results. LEANRUN follows at 15.5% (9 boats) — upwind-neutral in race results — and behind it HEFTLINE and KEELRUN sit level at 10.3% (6 boats each): the first compact and level on a stiff reserve, with a measured upwind advantage in banked evidence, the second compact and upright on a neutral reserve, upwind-neutral in banked evidence. Together the leading three account for 60.3% of the fleet; the structural read is real, and the small-sample caveat travels with every claim.

Judel Vrolijk anchors the Austrian design board at 20.7%. Twelve of the 58 boats trace to Judel Vrolijk lines — the largest single design block in the fleet, and a wide enough lead to read as a standing preference rather than a coincidence of who happened to measure. Behind it the class picture is thin: only two classes reach three boats, the Dehler 38 Sq at seven and the Pogo 12.5 3.0 at three. The 2026 forward path runs the Alpine lake season first — Attersee thermal programs, the Neusiedlersee flat-water circuit, and Traunsee confined-waters racing through the Austrian summer — with Mediterranean championship crossover following, where the Austrian fleet has already logged entries across twelve international event records.

National fleet view · 58 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Hidden Shape

The shape of the Austrian fleet.

58 boats in the fleet. 54 ORC-rated and 4 mapped IRC entries attributed across eight populated archetypes — AEROFORCE leads the distribution at 24.1%, with AEROCORE at 20.7% and LEANRUN at 15.5% behind it, and HEFTLINE and KEELRUN level at 10.3% next. Read with the small-sample caveat: every share moves visibly with a single new boat.

The Austrian ORC Fleet Signature

Austria's fleet is an AEROFORCE-led Alpine collective with international reach. AEROFORCE leads at 24.1% (14 boats) — large platforms with a level posture and a neutral righting reserve, with a measured reaching advantage in race results — a step clear of the field. AEROCORE is next at 20.7% (12 boats) — large platforms on a tender reserve, downwind-neutral in race results — and LEANRUN follows at 15.5% (9 boats), upwind-neutral in race results. HEFTLINE sits at 10.3% (6 boats) with KEELRUN at 10.3% (6 boats) level with it — the first compact and level on a stiff reserve, with a measured upwind advantage in banked evidence, the second compact and upright on a neutral reserve, upwind-neutral in banked evidence. Together the leading three account for 60.3% of the fleet across eight populated archetypes, and the top designer cluster (Judel Vrolijk at 20.7%) anchors the design board. Behind that block the class picture is thin: only the Dehler 38 Sq and the Pogo 12.5 3.0 reach three boats. This is a small fleet with an international footprint out of proportion to its size.

  • AEROFORCE 24.1% · 14 boats
  • AEROCORE 20.7% · 12 boats
  • LEANRUN 15.5% · 9 boats

Dimension emphasis: Hull Efficiency · Comp & Time

The 2026 Austrian forward path runs Alpine lake first — Attersee, Neusiedlersee, Traunsee through the summer — and Mediterranean championship crossover second, on the international footprint the fleet has already logged: twelve event records across eight regattas and a season points series — the Aegean 600 in its 2025 and 2026 editions, the Rolex Middle Sea Race, the Rolex Fastnet Race, the ORC Double-Handed World Championship, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in 2024 and 2025, the RORC Caribbean 600, the Copa del Rey ORC European Championship, the Loro Piana Giraglia, and the 2026 RORC Season's Point Championship.

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AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 14
Share 24.1%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 12
Share 20.7%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 9
Share 15.5%
  • 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 6
Share 10.3%
  • 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 6
Share 10.3%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 4
Share 6.9%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 2
Share 3.4%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

SPARKFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 2
Share 3.4%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN
At a glance

Austria — structural profile.

Scope
58 boats
54 ORC-rated · 4 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. AEROFORCE — 14 boats (24.1%)
  2. AEROCORE — 12 boats (20.7%)
  3. LEANRUN — 9 boats (15.5%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes (the fleet’s eight recurring design types) cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Judel Vrolijk
12 boats (20.7%) — 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

National fleet view · 58 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Racing Landscape

Austrian boats appear in eleven event records across eight international regattas in the FleetEdge archive — and the footprint is deepening. The deepest Austrian presence sits at the 2025 Rolex Middle Sea Race, at five boats across the regatta's two collected records. Three boats raced the 2026 Aegean 600 and two the 2025 ORC Double-Handed World Championship. Single Austrian entries appear at the 2025 Aegean 600, the 2025 Rolex Fastnet Race, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in both its 2024 and 2025 editions, the 2026 RORC Caribbean 600, the 2025 Copa del Rey ORC European Championship, and the 2026 Loro Piana Giraglia.

That footprint is wide but still shallow at most events, so this page carries no selected race result yet. FleetEdge publishes a race-result view for a country when a single event draws enough of its boats to read as a national entry group. For most of the collected archive the Austrian maximum sat at three boats per event; the 2025 Rolex Middle Sea Race is the first to reach five. What the archive shows is a small fleet with disproportionate international reach — an Alpine lake program on Neusiedlersee, Attersee, and Traunsee that travels out to the Mediterranean and Atlantic offshore circuit rather than racing itself at home in the collected record. As the Middle Sea Race entry and the wider footprint consolidate, the race-result lens opens here.

Headlines

The Austrian archive on the offshore circuit: Aegean 600 2026 and RORC Caribbean 600 2026.

The most recent event in the Austrian racing record is the Aegean 600 2026, the offshore race started 5 July 2026; the archetype profile of its classified field sits in the Race Archetypes grid at the foot of this panel.

The RORC Caribbean 600 2026 (23 February 2026) is the Caribbean lens profiled on this page. The classified field of the 2026 edition is profiled in Race Archetypes below, in the FleetEdge analysis published nearest the event; the Aegean 600 2026 field follows it at the foot of this panel.

Race Archetypes

RORC Caribbean 600 2026 — the classified field, 23 February 2026.

The RORC Caribbean 600 2026 lens for this page: the archetype spread of the classified field of that race, in the FleetEdge view published nearest the event. This is the field's profile, not an Austrian national distribution — the national picture stays in Fleet DNA.

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

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 4
Share 36.4%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 3
Share 27.3%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 2
Share 18.2%

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 2
Share 18.2%

Classified fleet view · 55 of 58 classified · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet Stories

The Austrian fleet's signature.

Judel Vrolijk anchors the Austrian design board

One design office carries a fifth of the Austrian fleet — 12 boats, 20.7% of the 58-boat national fleet trace to Judel Vrolijk lines, the largest single design block on the grid and wide enough to read as a standing preference rather than a market accident. The Dehler 38 Sq cluster carries much of that weight, and the rest of the fleet fans out thinly behind it. At this fleet size the ordering behind the lead still moves with a single new measurement.

The Dehler 38 Sq cluster

The Dehler 38 Sq is the one class with real depth in Austria — 7 boats, 12.1% of the 58-boat fleet, and the only class in the country to reach more than three. The Pogo 12.5 3.0 follows at three; every other class in the fleet sits at one or two boats. For a landlocked program that races its offshore campaigns abroad, that single deep class is the closest thing the Austrian fleet has to a domestic one-design spine.

AEROFORCE leads the Austrian fleet

AEROFORCE holds the top of Austria's structural board alone — 14 boats, 24.1% of the 58-boat fleet, clear of AEROCORE at 20.7% behind it, with LEANRUN at 15.5% next. AEROFORCE's platforms are large with a level posture and a neutral righting reserve, and their race results show a measured reaching advantage — a stronger showing than the fleet norm on that leg, worth weighing on the offshore courses the fleet meets on its Mediterranean crossover. Read it as a standing design preference, with the small-sample caveat that travels with a 58-boat fleet.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Austrian racing.

Dehler 38 Sq (7)

A racer-cruiser from Dehler.

Pogo 12.5 3.0 (3)

A racer-cruiser from Pogo.

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