Belgium

North Sea fleet. European circuit racing from Ostend to the Solent — AEROMAX-led, 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

11 archetypes.
How this country's fleet clusters before the results arrive.

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 by AEROMAX at 21.9%, an upwind-power signature, 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 2026-07-10

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.

AEROMAX leads the Belgian distribution at 21.9% (14 boats) — a clear upwind-power signature. AEROMAX's strong rig-driven VMG defines the top of a fleet tuned to convert North Sea tide-line current and Channel chop into clean waterline speed across mixed coastal pressure. GRAVITYRUN runs second at 15.6% (10 boats) — the heavy-mode downwind-momentum tier — with AEROBLADE third at 10.9% (7 boats), the high-efficiency rigs with rapid trim response, and KEELFLEX fourth at 9.4% (6 boats), the narrow-window balance platforms — the breadth Belgian offshore racing rewards between sheltered and exposed zones. Farr Design carries the most-common designer voice in this fleet at 14.1% (9 boats), with Johnstone R and Felci U following at 6.3% (4 boats each); the rest of the fleet distributes across a long tail of single- and double-boat lines.

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 2026-07-10

At a glance

Belgium — structural profile.

Scope
64 boats
26 ORC-rated · 38 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. AEROMAX — 14 boats (21.9%)
  2. GRAVITYRUN — 10 boats (15.6%)
  3. AEROBLADE — 7 boats (10.9%)
Eleven canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Farr Yacht 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 2026-07-10
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Belgian fleet.

64 Belgian boats classified across 11 archetypes — AEROMAX leads at 21.9% (14 boats), with GRAVITYRUN second at 15.6% (10 boats), AEROBLADE third at 10.9% (7 boats), and KEELFLEX fourth at 9.4% (6 boats). Small national fleet: read every share with a small-sample caveat.

The Belgian ORC Fleet Signature

Belgium's fleet is an AEROMAX-led North Sea collective whose racing footprint runs from Ostend to the Caribbean. AEROMAX leads at 21.9% (14 boats) — the upwind-power tier built to convert North Sea tide-line current and Channel chop into clean waterline speed across mixed coastal pressure. GRAVITYRUN runs second at 15.6% (10 boats) — heavy-mode momentum hulls with strong downwind power in sustained breeze — with AEROBLADE third at 10.9% (7 boats), the high-efficiency rigs with rapid trim response that suit Ostend, Zeebrugge, and Nieuwpoort short-course racing between tidal gates, and KEELFLEX fourth at 9.4% (6 boats), the narrow-window balance platforms — the breadth Belgian offshore racing rewards between sheltered and exposed zones. Farr Yacht 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.

  • AEROMAX 21.9% · 14 boats
  • GRAVITYRUN 15.6% · 10 boats
  • AEROBLADE 10.9% · 7 boats

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

Farr Yacht 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 and Felci U following at 6.3% (4 boats 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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AEROMAX

Upwind-power specialist with the fleet's strongest rig-driven VMG.

strong upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 14
Share 21.9%
  • First 40.7
  • First 40
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROBLADE

High-efficiency rig with sharp heel sensitivity and rapid trim response.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 7
Share 10.9%
  • TP-52
  • Farr 40
  • XP-44

GRAVITYRUN

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 10
Share 15.6%
  • First 36.7
  • First 34.7
  • X-332

KEELFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 6
Share 9.4%
  • First 31.7
  • Express
  • First 31.7 LR

DEEPFRAME

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 4
Share 6.3%
  • J-109
  • First 36
  • J-120

HEADFORCE

Upwind-biased pressure boat driving compact rigs through higher-drag hull forms.

strong upwind · weak reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 4
Share 6.3%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Miura
  • Elan 333

STEELCORE

Central, stiff rigid-platform hull — stability-positive, hull-form-dominant, low heel-sensitivity.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 5
Share 7.8%
  • Sunfast 37
  • Dufour 40
  • Grand Soleil 37 BC

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 2
Share 3.1%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • Melges 24 OD

STEELFORM

Compact-rig, rigid platform delivering consistent, low-variance results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 5
Share 7.8%
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • Dufour 41 Performance
  • Hanse 400 E

STORMLINE

High-power, heel-sensitive platform with explosive potential when sailed flat.

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 3
Share 4.7%
  • Comfortina 32
  • Fenix
  • Aphrodite 101

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull delivering smooth, efficient downwind acceleration.

weak upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 4
Share 6.3%
  • J-105
  • J-99
  • Farr 30

National fleet view · 64 boats · as of 2026-07-10

Racing Landscape

Belgian boats appear across eight international events in the published FleetEdge archive. The Rolex Fastnet Race 2025 carries the deepest Belgian entry at two boats; single Belgian entries surface at the 2026 Loro Piana Giraglia, the 2026 ORC Double-Handed World Championship, the Rolex Middle Sea Race 2025, the RORC Caribbean 600 2026, the RORC Cervantes Trophy 2025, the RORC Myth of Malham 2025, and Ibiza JoySail 2024. The pattern is dispersion: Belgium's international campaigners travel alone — one flag on many start lines, from the Solent to the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic.

No single event yet gathers enough Belgian boats for a race-level view. FleetEdge publishes a selected race result for a nation when several of its boats share a start line; the largest single-event Belgian group in the current published data is two. That is a small-fleet signal, not a data gap — a compact national fleet whose grand-prix layer campaigns internationally at the single-boat level. As the archive grows, the first Belgian entry group to cross that line will bring the race-result lens with it.

Classified fleet view · 64 of 64 classified · as of 2026-07-10

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: three First 40.7s, three First 34.7s, two First 47.7s, and a First 36.7. Johnstone R and Felci U follow at 6.3% (4 boats each). In a fleet otherwise built from single- and double-boat lines, the Farr block is the one structural thread.

A Miura-led class grid

No single class dominates Belgium — the Miura leads at 4 boats, 6.3% of the fleet, with the First 34.7 and the First 40.7 at 3 boats apiece (4.7%), and no other class reaches three. A compact cruiser-racer classic ahead of two Farr-drawn Beneteau production classes is the Belgian inventory in miniature: individual owner projects beside production racer-cruisers.

AEROMAX leads the Belgian fleet

AEROMAX is Belgium's structural preference — 14 boats, 21.9% of the classified fleet, better than one boat in five and well clear of second-placed GRAVITYRUN (15.6%). The upwind-power specialist is the platform Belgian owners keep choosing for North Sea tide-lines and Channel chop — a long-running design preference rather than a single-season effect.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Belgian racing.

Miura (4)

A racer-cruiser from Nebe Yachts.

First 34.7 (3)

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

First 40.7 (3)

A Farr Design racer-cruiser — the Beneteau 40-footer that defined a decade.

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