Kinship
A South Atlantic ORC fleet built on tropical trade winds and cross-border design heritage.
83 ORC-rated Brazilian boats in the FleetEdge governed fleet — a fleet shaped by Rio de Janeiro and Santos club racing and the South Atlantic tropical pattern, led by AEROSTREAM at 19.3% with HEFTLINE at 16.9% and KEELRUN at 16.9% behind, the top three carrying just over half the fleet in a Brazilian offshore signature that pairs grand-prix scale with compact sportboat power.
National fleet view · as of 2026-08-20
ORC Authority: ABVO — Associação Brasileira de Vela de Oceano
Brazilian ORC certificates are issued through ABVO, the Associação Brasileira de Vela de Oceano, and the fleet sits firmly in the South Atlantic club-racing tradition — the Felci 315 line, the Soto Acebal S-40 OD and the HPE sportboats, the Carabelli 30 and Neo-25 club bands, the Volker N customs, and a working grand-prix spine anchored on the Judel/Vrolijk TP-52 CRIOULA IV. All eight archetypes are populated in the 83-boat distribution — one that reads grand-prix scale at the top, with compact club and sportboat tooling filling the tier behind.
AEROSTREAM leads at 19.3% (16 boats), with HEFTLINE at 16.9% (14 boats) and KEELRUN at 16.9% (14 boats) behind — grand-prix scale at the top of the Brazilian offshore signature. The three leading archetypes together carry just over half the fleet — with the balance spread across a broad mixed tier: AEROCORE at 14.5% (12 boats), SPARKFLEX at 12.0% (10 boats), LEANRUN at 8.4% (7 boats), and LEANFORCE and AEROFORCE tied at 6.0% (5 boats) each. The order sets AEROSTREAM's towering-scale, stiff-reserve platforms in the TP-52 mold ahead of HEFTLINE's compact, stiff sportboat tooling in the J-111 and Cape 31 line, while KEELRUN's compact, upright club hulls in the First 31.7 and J-105 mold carry the Rio-to-Santos club depth in third. Volker N anchors the drawing-board signature at 10.8% (9 boats) — the most-common designer in the fleet, sitting below the 15% leading-share threshold and pointing to a diversified design canon rather than a single voice — with the Felci and Soto Acebal boards close behind and the Italian and Argentine production canon distributed across a long tail of small class lines.
The 2026 forward path runs Rio-to-Santos domestic first, with the Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro and Iate Clube de Santos circuit and the Santos-Rio tradition carrying the macro fleet through the Southern Hemisphere summer and shoulder months. Two international events carry a Brazilian entry in the current published view: the Rolex Circuito Atlantico Sur 2026 — the cross-border South American series raced with Argentina — where a single S-40 OD joined the observed field, and the 43rd Copa del Rey — ORC European Championship 2025, where the TP-52 CRIOULA IV raced the observed field. A small international sample for now; the structural read below is where the Brazilian fleet's depth shows.