Belgium

North Sea fleet. European circuit racing from Ostend to the Solent — LEANFORCE at the head of the distribution, with Belgian entries from the Fastnet to the Caribbean 600.

Kinship

Every fleet has a fingerprint.

From the Solent’s tide-lines to the Aegean Meltemia — find your waters.

 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 Belgian boat clusters, before the results arrive.
Kinship

North Sea-bred, European-campaigned.

64 Belgian boats under KBYV / FRBY — a compact North Sea fleet led from the compact end of the scale range by LEANFORCE at 23.4% (15 boats), with Farr Design the most-common designer voice at 14.1% across a fleet built for tide-line and Channel-chop racing conditions.

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National fleet view · as of 2026-09-02

ORC Authority: KBYV · FRBY

KBYV and FRBY jointly govern a fleet that punches above its weight on European circuits. 64 Belgian boats carry a FleetEdge identity under the Belgian flag, with Ostend, Zeebrugge, and Nieuwpoort as North Sea home waters. Belgian crews bring a tidal, cold-water foundation — the Channel's spring-ebb gates, the North Sea's steep short seas, and the cold build of Atlantic weather arriving from the west — to Solent campaigns, Fastnet entries, and continental championship events. At 64 boats the Belgian fleet is a small sample by FleetEdge's structural-signature standards; read every per-archetype share below with a small-sample caveat in mind, where a single boat moves the distribution by about a point and a half.

LEANFORCE leads the Belgian distribution at 23.4% — 15 of 64 boats, nearly a quarter of the national fleet. LEANFORCE is the compact tier of the scale range, and it carries a measured downwind advantage in race results; it holds a two-boat lead over the next archetype in the count order. AEROFORCE follows at 20.3% (13 boats), large and level-trimming on a neutral reserve; then AEROSTREAM at 9.4% (6 boats), towering and level-trimming on a stiff reserve; and AEROCORE at 14.1% (9 boats), the large-platform tier that rides on a tender righting reserve and runs in line with the fleet norm downwind in race results. LEANRUN takes 12.5% (8 boats) and HEFTLINE 9.4% (6 boats), with SPARKFLEX at 6.3% (4 boats), and KEELRUN closing out the tail at 4.7% (3 boats), the compact, forgiving end of the range. Farr Design carries the most-common designer voice in this fleet at 14.1% (9 boats) — the leading design-house block in a fleet otherwise spread across many drawing boards.

The 2026 Belgian forward path runs the North Sea coastal circuit first, with the RORC Season Points program (Cervantes Trophy, Myth of Malham), the biennial Rolex Fastnet rhythm, and continued European championship entries forming the structural axis of the season. The international footprint in the current published data is dispersed by design — two Belgian boats at the Rolex Fastnet Race 2025, single entries from the Loro Piana Giraglia to the RORC Caribbean 600 — a compact fleet whose campaigners carry the flag one start line at a time.

National fleet view · 64 boats · as of 2026-09-02

At a glance

Belgium — structural profile.

Scope
64 boats
26 ORC-rated · 38 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANFORCE — 15 boats (23.4%)
  2. AEROFORCE — 13 boats (20.3%)
  3. AEROCORE — 9 boats (14.1%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes (the fleet’s eight recurring design types) cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Farr Design
9 boats (14.1%) — 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 Belgian fleet.

64 Belgian boats classified across 8 archetypes — LEANFORCE leads the distribution at 23.4% (15 boats), with AEROFORCE next at 20.3% (13 boats), then AEROSTREAM at 9.4% (6 boats) and AEROCORE at 14.1% (9 boats). Small national fleet: read every share with a small-sample caveat.

The Belgian ORC Fleet Signature

LEANFORCE leads the Belgian fleet at 23.4% (15 boats) — nearly a quarter of a North Sea collective whose racing footprint runs from Ostend to the Caribbean. LEANFORCE is the compact tier of the scale range, and it carries a measured downwind advantage in race results; it holds a two-boat lead over the rest of the count order. AEROFORCE follows at 20.3% (13 boats), large and level-trimming on a neutral reserve; AEROSTREAM takes 9.4% (6 boats), towering and level-trimming on a stiff reserve; and AEROCORE, the large-platform tier that rides upright on a tender righting reserve, completes the leading group at 14.1% (9 boats). Farr Design carries the largest single designer share at 14.1% (9 boats), a leading-share signal rather than a structural monopoly: the Belgian fleet reads as designed by committee across multiple serious design houses, with the Beneteau First racer-cruisers, the Miura, and a long tail of single-boat lines populating the inventory.

  • LEANFORCE 23.4% · 15 boats
  • AEROFORCE 20.3% · 13 boats
  • AEROCORE 14.1% · 9 boats

Dimension emphasis: Sail Drive · Comp & Time · Hull Efficiency

Farr Design is the most-common voice on the Belgian drawing board at 14.1% (9 boats) — a fleet built around individual owner projects rather than a class monoculture — with Johnstone R next at 6.3% (4 boats) and Berckmeyer and Frers G at 4.7% each. The 2026 forward path runs the North Sea coastal circuit and the RORC Season Points program first, with single-boat Belgian entries carrying the flag from the Mediterranean championship circuit to the Caribbean.

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LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 15
Share 23.4%
  • Elan 333
  • Miura
  • Dufour 30 Classic

AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 13
Share 20.3%
  • 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 9
Share 14.1%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 8
Share 12.5%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 6
Share 9.4%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 6
Share 9.4%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

SPARKFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 4
Share 6.3%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

KEELRUN

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

strong upwind · strong reaching · strong downwind

Boats 3
Share 4.7%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

National fleet view · 64 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Racing Landscape

Belgian boats appear across 19 international event records in the published FleetEdge archive. The 2026 RORC Season's Point Championship carries the deepest Belgian presence at seven boats, with five at the 2026 Cowes Offshore Series and three apiece at the 43rd Copa del Rey — the 2025 ORC European Championship — and the Cowes Dinard St Malo Race; the Rolex Fastnet Race 2025 drew two. Single Belgian entries surface from the Loro Piana Giraglia 2026 and the 2026 ORC Double-Handed World Championship to the Rolex Middle Sea Race 2025, the RORC Caribbean 600 2026, the RORC Cervantes Trophy 2025, the RORC Myth of Malham 2025, and Cowes Week 2026. The pattern is still dispersion at the single-race grain: Belgium's international campaigners travel — one flag on many start lines, from the Solent to the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic.

No selected race result renders on this page yet. FleetEdge publishes a selected race result for a nation when several of its boats share a start line; with the newest collection wave the deepest Belgian groups — seven boats across the 2026 RORC Season's Point Championship and five at the 2026 Cowes Offshore Series — reach that depth for the first time in the published archive. A compact national fleet whose campaigners long carried the flag one start line at a time now gathers on the Solent circuit, and the first of those entry groups to be taken up as a featured result will bring the race-result lens with it.

Headlines

The newest line in the Belgian archive: Cowes Week 2026.

Cowes Week 2026 (1–7 August 2026) is the most recent event in Belgium's published FleetEdge archive. The dispersion pattern the Racing Landscape describes held on the Solent: Belgian racing reached the week's start lines in the published view the way it reaches most of the calendar — by traveling — and the classified field it joined is profiled in Race Archetypes below, in the FleetEdge analysis published nearest the event.

Race Archetypes

Cowes Week 2026 — the classified field, 1–7 August 2026.

The event lens on the week Belgian racing most recently joined: the archetype spread of the classified Cowes Week 2026 field, in the FleetEdge view published nearest the event. This is the field's profile, not a Belgian 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 26.7%

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 4
Share 26.7%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 2
Share 13.3%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 2
Share 13.3%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

Classified fleet view · 64 of 64 classified · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet Stories

The Belgian fleet's signature.

Farr Design — Belgium's most-common design board

In a fleet split across many design houses, Farr Design carries the largest single share — 9 boats, 14.1% of the fleet, every one a Beneteau First racer-cruiser: four First 34.7s, two First 40.7s, two First 47.7 variants, and a First 36.7. Johnstone R follows at 6.3% (4 boats), with Berckmeyer and Frers G at 4.7% each. In a fleet otherwise built from single- and double-boat lines, the Farr block is the one structural thread.

The Miura and the First 34.7, level at the top

No single class carries the Belgian grid — the First 34.7 and the Miura tie at 4 boats each, 6.3% of the fleet apiece, and no other class reaches three. A Berckmeyer-drawn cruiser-racer classic level with a Farr-drawn Beneteau production class is the Belgian inventory in miniature: individual owner projects beside production racer-cruisers.

LEANFORCE — nearly a quarter of the Belgian fleet

Belgium's structural center of gravity sits at the compact end of the scale range — LEANFORCE takes 15 of 64 boats, 23.4% of the fleet, the largest single archetype block in the Belgian distribution. The tier carries a measured downwind advantage in race results, and Belgian owners have kept choosing it for short-course North Sea and Channel racing — a long-running structural preference rather than a single-season effect.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Belgian racing.

First 34.7 (4)

A Farr Design racer-cruiser — fast, level, and everywhere in French club racing.

Miura (4)

A racer-cruiser from Nebe Yachts.

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