Croatia

The Adriatic's racing fleet. From charter boats to offshore competition.

Kinship

Every fleet has a fingerprint.

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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 Croatian boat clusters, before the results arrive.
Kinship

An AEROCORE-anchored Adriatic fleet — nearly half of it under a single archetype.

Croatia's 234-boat ORC fleet carries a distinctive Adriatic offshore signature: AEROCORE anchors it at 50.0% (117 boats) — one boat in two, and one of the highest single-archetype concentrations on the platform — with LEANRUN (15.4%) and AEROFORCE (11.5%) leading the long, diverse tail behind it. The large production platforms of Croatia's charter-to-racing pipeline set the fleet's racing signature.

234
boats
18
events
126
races
Domestic competitive fleet · as of 2026-09-02

ORC Authority: Hrvatski jedriličarski savez

The Hrvatski jedriličarski savez governs one of the Mediterranean's largest national ORC fleets. Croatia's long indented coastline — 1,244 islands scattered from Istria south to Dubrovnik — and its charter-to-racing pipeline have built a fleet that is both deep and broad. FleetEdge tracks 234 boats with the CRO sail prefix, with AEROCORE at 50.0% (117 boats), LEANRUN at 15.4% (36 boats), and AEROFORCE at 11.5% (27 boats). AEROCORE alone carries one boat in two — one of the most concentrated single-archetype signatures on FleetEdge.

The AEROCORE lead is the Adriatic's big-platform preference. AEROCORE clusters the large-scale, upright-sailing production hulls — tender in reserve — that Croatia's charter-to-racing pipeline delivers in volume, from the Bavaria CR 46 to the First 36. Behind it the fleet fans out across a long, diverse tail: the large, upright LEANRUN family holds second rank at 15.4% (36 boats), AEROFORCE follows at 11.5% (27 boats), and HEFTLINE (6.4%, 15 boats) and the towering-scale AEROSTREAM platforms (6.0%, 14 boats) sit close behind. At the drawing-board level, Farr Design anchors the signature at 20.9% (49 boats), with Felci a notable Italian-designer presence — the Adriatic accent that distinguishes this fleet from other Mediterranean fleets. The archetype concentration is a long-running structural preference read directly from the fleet composition, not from any single race result.

The 2026 editorial anchor is the Mrduja Regatta — the oldest and biggest Croatian yacht race, run annually on the first weekend of October from Split around the Mrduje islet on a 22-nautical-mile track since 1927. Jabuka Regatta follows in mid-November with the 110-nautical-mile Vodice-to-Jabuka-and-back offshore leg, the most extreme Croatian race for its unpredictable winter weather on open seas.

National fleet view · 234 boats · as of 2026-09-02

At a glance

Croatia — structural profile.

Scope
234 boats
234 ORC-rated · 0 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. AEROCORE — 117 boats (50.0%)
  2. LEANRUN — 36 boats (15.4%)
  3. AEROFORCE — 27 boats (11.5%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes (the fleet’s eight recurring design types) cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Farr Design
49 boats (20.9%) — 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
Fleet DNA

How the Croatian fleet is built.

234 boats in the fleet, all 234 ORC-rated and classified across FleetEdge's eight archetypes — here's how they cluster, and what the collective signature reveals about how Croatia races.

The Croatian ORC Fleet Signature

Croatia's fleet is built around one dominant production family with a long competitive tail behind it — and AEROCORE is that family. AEROCORE carries 50.0% (117 boats), one boat in two and one of the highest single-archetype concentrations of any national fleet on FleetEdge: the large, upright-sailing production platforms of Croatia's charter-to-racing pipeline, tender in reserve. LEANRUN follows at 15.4% (36 boats), the large, upright family that is the all-round shape of the coastal calendar. AEROFORCE holds third at 11.5% (27 boats) — the large, level-postured family with neutral reserve. HEFTLINE, AEROSTREAM, KEELRUN, LEANFORCE, and SPARKFLEX fill out the remainder — a fleet shape that reads the Adriatic's preference for big production platforms directly off the hull shapes Croatian owners choose.

  • AEROCORE 50.0% · 117 boats
  • LEANRUN 15.4% · 36 boats
  • AEROFORCE 11.5% · 27 boats

Dimension emphasis: Form Stability · Hull Efficiency · Condition & Tactical

Farr Design anchors the drawing-board signature at 20.9% (49 boats), with Felci a notable Italian-designer presence — the Adriatic accent that distinguishes this fleet. In 2026, this fleet's home-water moment is the 99th edition of the Mrduja Regatta on the first weekend of October — where the AEROCORE-led fleet powers through the Split channel's early-autumn pressure envelope under full sail.

Complete data Latest published view

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 117
Share 50.0%
  • First 45
  • First 40
  • Oceanis 43

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 36
Share 15.4%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 27
Share 11.5%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 15
Share 6.4%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 14
Share 6.0%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

KEELRUN

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

strong upwind · strong reaching · strong downwind

Boats 10
Share 4.3%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 9
Share 3.8%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

Event cohort view · 5 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Selected Race Result

ORC DH World Championships 2025 — Doublehanded fleet

5 of 234 fleet boats competed. 1 race. Scored under ORC, September 2025. On Comparative Time, negative is faster than the rating expects (the boat beat its rating); positive is slower.

Headlines

ORC DH World Championships 2025 — the leaders.

The most recent event in the Croatian 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.

On Crew Residual, negative means the crew beat the boat's archetype-expected pace (stronger execution); positive is below that baseline. Sail Drive reads higher-is-better.

Comparative Time

1. MY WAY · +132.9 sec/nm
2. DUBROVNIK · +175.2 sec/nm
Cohort 2 of 35 boats

Sail Drive

1. JUGGERNAUT · 32
2. RAPTOR · 28
3. KEY-GO · 27
Cohort 53 boats

Crew Residual

No Croatian crew beat its evaluated pace at this event; 4 of 4 sat above it. The full execution decomposition for each boat is private to its team in the Team Diagnostic.

Cohort 4 of 47 boats

ORC World Championship 2026 (8–14 May 2026) — also profiled on this page. The ORC DH World Championships 2025 stays the featured Croatian result on this page; the ORC World Championship 2026 is profiled in its own Race Archetypes section further down this panel, and the Aegean 600 2026 closes the panel as the most recent event.

Stories

What the Doublehanded Worlds showed.

MY WAY: the best Croatian read on Comparative Time, eight points off the sail-drive ceiling

MY WAY SPARKFLEX, a J-80, carried the best Croatian read at the Doublehanded Worlds: the leading Croatian entry on Comparative Time, 18.3 sec/nm inside the median of the 35-boat comparison field and at its 68th percentile, while her sail-drive index of 24 sat eight points off the 32-point field ceiling — a ceiling set by JUGGERNAUT, a J-88. The smallest platform in the Croatian contingent converted more of its envelope than any other Croatian entry on the day. The full execution decomposition for this boat is private to its team in the Team Diagnostic.

ALTISSIMUS cleared the comparative-time field by 20.3 sec/nm

ALTISSIMUS LEANFORCE, a Corby 25, led the 35 boats with comparison data at the Doublehanded Worlds — 78.7 sec/nm inside the field median and 20.3 sec/nm clear of runner-up MARGOT, a First 36.7. In a one-race offshore format where all 35 finished outside their rating allowance, one boat came closest to sailing to its number.

An AEROCORE nation, a LEANRUN race group at its Worlds

Croatia's national fleet clusters one boat in two under AEROCORE — 50.0% — yet the doublehanded race group at this Worlds ran to a different shape. LEANRUN led the race group at 22.6% (12 boats), with LEANFORCE behind it at 20.8% (11 boats), AEROCORE at 18.9% and AEROSTREAM at 17.0% (9 boats). The five Croatian entries themselves traveled as two AEROCORE, one HEFTLINE, one LEANFORCE and one SPARKFLEX — two of the five carried the home fleet's signature archetype, and the doublehanded discipline still drew its own composition.

Race Archetypes

53 boats classified in the ORC DH World Championships 2025.

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

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 12
Share 22.6%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

Boats 11
Share 20.8%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 10
Share 18.9%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 9
Share 17.0%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 6
Share 11.3%

KEELRUN

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

Boats 4
Share 7.5%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 1.9%

Classified fleet view · 234 of 234 classified · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet Stories

The Croatian fleet signature.

Forty-nine Farr designs anchor the Croatian fleet

Farr Design carries 49 of 234 Croatian boats — 20.9% of the national fleet, the largest single drawing-board share. The Farr Design grip runs through the Bavaria production line: the Bavaria CR 46 and CR 41S hulls that fill Croatian regatta entry lists come from the Farr board. Felci adds a notable Italian accent, the cross-Adriatic influence that distinguishes the Croatian inventory from other Mediterranean fleets.

A Bavaria-heavy charter-to-racing backbone

The Bavaria CR 46 is Croatia's largest single class at 20 boats — 8.5% of the national fleet — with the Dufour 41 Performance (12) and the Croatian-built More 55 (11) behind it. The top of the class table is production racer-cruiser territory: the charter economy keeps big, modern cruiser-racer hulls in Croatian marinas, and the racing fleet draws from the same docks.

AEROCORE leads the Croatian fleet

AEROCORE carries 117 of 234 Croatian boats — 50.0% of the national fleet, one boat in two, one of the highest single-archetype concentrations of any country on FleetEdge and more than thirty-four points clear of second-placed LEANRUN at 15.4%. AEROCORE is downwind-neutral in race results — in line with the fleet norm. The Croatian preference runs toward large-scale, upright-sailing production platforms — a long-running structural preference read from the fleet composition, not a single-season result.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Croatian racing.

Bavaria CR 46 (20)

A racer-cruiser from Bavaria.

Dufour 41 Performance (12)

A racer-cruiser from Dufour.

More 55 (11)

A Cossutti design, built in Croatia by More Brodovi.

First 36 (9)

A racer-cruiser from Seascape.

Bavaria CR 41S (8)

A racer-cruiser from Bavaria.

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