Finland

Baltic offshore racing with short intense seasons. Challenging conditions demand precision.

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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 Finnish boat clusters, before the results arrive.
Kinship

LEANFORCE takes two boats in five — the compact-end Baltic read.

352 FIN-prefix boats anchor a distinctive Finnish offshore character: LEANFORCE is a dominant plurality at 38.9% (137 boats), more than two and a half times the next archetype — compact-scale hulls, and enough of them that the compact end of the fleet defines how Finland meets cold water, shallow archipelago approaches, and short punishing seas under the magnetic clarity of summer's nightless nights. LEANRUN's large, upright platforms hold the next tier at 14.5% (51 boats), with AEROFORCE's large, level-posture platforms a step behind at 13.9% (49 boats).

352
boats
26
events
209
races
Domestic competitive fleet · as of 2026-08-20

National authority: Suomen Purjehdus ja Veneily

The intensity of the Baltic season shapes Finnish racing character. With a short window for racing, every event matters. Crews develop through a series of closely-packed competitions that test preparation, boat handling in variable conditions, and tactical discipline under pressure. Underneath the calendar, the structural read is clean: the boats with FIN sail prefixes make Finland one of the largest contributors to the Baltic offshore fleet, second only to Norway, and that fleet clusters on compact hulls that defend the beat — heeled stiff-reserve platforms and their rough-water cousins — backed by large level-posture upwind boats, rather than on a single leading designer line. Jeppesen-Nielsen leads the designer table at 8.0% (28 boats), well below the 15% concentration threshold, with Sparkman & Stephens adding a cross-Atlantic classic-American presence. The Finnish fleet is fragmented on the drawing-board axis and comparatively concentrated on the archetype axis — a combination distinctive on FleetEdge.

National fleet view · 352 boats · as of 2026-08-20

At a glance

Finland — structural profile.

Scope
352 boats
350 ORC-rated · 2 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANFORCE — 137 boats (38.9%)
  2. LEANRUN — 51 boats (14.5%)
  3. AEROFORCE — 49 boats (13.9%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Jeppesennielsen
28 boats (8.0%) — 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 2026-08-20
Hidden Shape

Fragmented designers, a Baltic signature led by LEANFORCE.

352 FIN-prefix boats across 8 archetypes on the Baltic — cold water, shallow archipelago, short punishing seas. Here's how a fragmented designer market (Jeppesen-Nielsen 8.0% most-common) carries a signature this concentrated — LEANFORCE alone accounts for 38.9% (137 boats), two boats in every five — and what that weight at the compact end reveals about how Finland actually races.

The Finnish ORC Fleet Signature

Finland does not have a leading archetype so much as a dominant one. LEANFORCE takes 38.9% of the fleet (137 boats) — the compact-scale end of the Compact family, and close to two boats in every five. Nothing else comes near it: LEANRUN holds the next tier at 14.5% (51 boats), large and upright, and AEROFORCE follows at 13.9% (49 boats), the large-scale, level-posture hull that grinds out the upwind ladder. SPARKFLEX takes 9.9% (35 boats), the minimal-scale, tender-reserve racing platform. Eight archetypes on the board, and one of them owns the top of the table outright.

  • LEANFORCE 38.9% · 137 boats
  • LEANRUN 14.5% · 51 boats
  • AEROFORCE 13.9% · 49 boats

Dimension emphasis: Sail Performance · Crew

The Finnish structural read concentrates at the compact end: LEANFORCE carries a 38.9% plurality — set against a fragmented Jeppesen-Nielsen-led designer market (8.0% most-common) and FIN-prefix boats representing the country on the world stage at the Tallinn 2025 ORC Worlds.

Complete data Latest published view

SPARKFLEX

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

weak upwind · moderate reaching · weak downwind

Boats 35
Share 9.9%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

LEANRUN

Large scale · upright posture — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 51
Share 14.5%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

AEROFORCE

Large scale · level posture · neutral reserve — reaching-constrained in banked race evidence.

neutral upwind · weak reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 49
Share 13.9%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROSTREAM

Towering scale · level posture · stiff reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

strong upwind · weak reaching · strong downwind

Boats 8
Share 2.3%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

weak upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 137
Share 38.9%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

HEFTLINE

Compact scale · level posture · stiff reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 25
Share 7.1%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

KEELRUN

Compact scale · upright posture · neutral reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 18
Share 5.1%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

AEROCORE

Large scale · upright posture · tender reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 29
Share 8.2%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

Event cohort view · 18 boats · as of 2026-08-20

The Finnish ORC community has developed depth through focused, high-intensity racing. Finnish Sailing and Boating provides the national framework and competitive structure. The Baltic offshore series brings together boats from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany in a challenging multi-event competition that tests boat handling and tactics in the complex Baltic environment. Counted by FIN sail prefixes, Finland is one of the largest contributors to the Baltic offshore fleet, second only to Norway and ahead of Estonia, Sweden, and the southern Baltic states.

Finland's contribution to international offshore racing is built on consistent excellence in challenging conditions. Finnish teams compete internationally and bring experience from the most technically demanding Baltic waters. The combination of skill development in short seasons, boat handling in complex water states, and tactical precision under pressure creates a foundation for competitive engagement in international events. The structural signature behind the calendar — LEANFORCE's compact-scale hulls taking 38.9% of the fleet outright, with LEANRUN's large upright platforms next — reads as a distinctly Finnish answer to Baltic conditions.

Selected Race Result

DH SM 2025 — Finnish Double-Handed Championship, Classes A & B.

18 of 352 fleet boats competed. 2 races. ToT — Weather Routing scoring over the 142.87 nm Espoo–Naissaari offshore course, 6 June 2025. On Comparative Time, negative is faster than the rating expects (the boat beat its rating); positive is slower.

Headlines

Who led each lens at DH SM 2025.

The most recent event on the Finnish record in the current published view is Baltic Offshore Week 2026, raced 5 to 14 June 2026 from Kalev Yacht Club — its classified field closes this panel. The featured Finnish event stays DH SM 2025 (6 June 2025), whose dimension leaders follow.

On Crew Residual, negative means the crew beat the boat's archetype-expected pace (stronger execution); positive is below that baseline. Every boat in this comparison field finished on the positive side of both time metrics, so the leaders below are the closest to expectations, not ahead of them. In this event's published view the two time lenses coincide boat-for-boat, so their leaderboards match. Sail Drive Efficiency reads higher-is-better.

Comparative Time

1. TEGU · +6.95 sec/nm
2. TENET · +8.27 sec/nm
3. VICTORIA · +9.18 sec/nm
Cohort 16 boats

Crew Residual

1. TEGU · +6.95 sec/nm
2. TENET · +8.27 sec/nm
3. VICTORIA · +9.18 sec/nm
Cohort 16 boats

Sail Drive Efficiency

1. TEGU · 37
2. MONKEY 47 · 35
3. STORM PETREL · 35
Cohort 18 boats
Stories

What the home championship surfaced.

TENET HEFTLINE — Event Champion, Class A

Tenet won Class A from a 9-boat field on 1.4 points — a JPK-10.30 in HEFTLINE form, a compact, level-posture platform with a stiff reserve, reaching-neutral in banked race evidence. The boat held second of 16 on both time lenses at +8.27 sec/nm — Comparative Time and Crew Residual coincide in this event's published view — and fifth of 18 on Sail Drive Efficiency at 31: consistent presence near the top of every table, which is what a class title usually rewards.

GOODIO LEANFORCE — Event Champion, Class B

Goodio took Class B, also on 1.4 points from a 9-boat field — a Mat 10.10 in LEANFORCE form, a compact-scale platform of the kind that makes up two boats in every five of the Finnish fleet. LEANFORCE is the largest archetype group in this race's classified field — 6 of the 18 boats in the published view nearest the event, with LEANRUN next at 5 — so the Class B title came from the field's leading profile.

Two class titles, two archetypes

Both DH SM 2025 class winners were Finnish, and they came from different archetypes: Tenet's HEFTLINE in Class A and Goodio's LEANFORCE in Class B, each scoring an identical 1.4 points to top its nine-boat class. One championship, two design philosophies on top — a level, stiff compact that runs reaching-neutral in banked race evidence in one class, and the compact-scale archetype that dominates the national fleet in the other — a breadth that reflects the fragmented-designer, multi-archetype shape of the 352-boat Finnish fleet.

Tegu cleared the field median by 23 sec/nm

Tegu, a Dehler 30 OD in HEFTLINE form, posted the field-best Comparative Time at +6.95 sec/nm against a field median near +30 — roughly 23 sec/nm closer to its rating than the middle of the fleet — and led the entire field on Sail Drive Efficiency at 37. Only Tenet, at +8.27 sec/nm, and Victoria, at +9.18, held within three seconds per mile of the leader; every other boat in the comparison field conceded 8 sec/nm or more.

Tenet: the title without a single table lead

FleetEdge reads the Class A champion dimension by dimension at DH SM 2025: second of 16 on Comparative Time at +8.27 sec/nm, second of 16 on Crew Residual — the two lenses coincide in this event's published view — and fifth of 18 on Sail Drive Efficiency at 31. Tegu led every table, but the title went to the boat that kept every surface close: the short-handed format isolates crew work from hull variation, and Tenet's consistency across lenses is what converted to a class win.

Race Archetypes

18 boats classified in DH SM 2025.

Archetype assignments dated 2026-08-20 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 6
Share 33.3%

LEANRUN

Large scale · upright posture — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 5
Share 27.8%

AEROCORE

Large scale · upright posture · tender reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

Boats 2
Share 11.1%

HEFTLINE

Compact scale · level posture · stiff reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 2
Share 11.1%

KEELRUN

Compact scale · upright posture · neutral reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 2
Share 11.1%

AEROFORCE

Large scale · level posture · neutral reserve — reaching-constrained in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 5.6%
Race Archetypes

ORC DH Worlds 2026 — the classified double-handed field, 21–22 May 2026.

The ORC DH Worlds 2026 was raced 21–22 May 2026 — this is the classified double-handed field, sorted by archetype as the fleet was classified at the time of the event. The cards below cover the whole classified championship cohort, not the Finnish boats alone, in the FleetEdge archetype view published nearest the event; the featured DH SM 2025 grid sits above.

Archetype assignments dated 2026-08-20 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

HEFTLINE

Compact scale · level posture · stiff reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 8
Share 30.8%

AEROCORE

Large scale · upright posture · tender reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

Boats 4
Share 15.4%

AEROSTREAM

Towering scale · level posture · stiff reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

Boats 4
Share 15.4%

LEANRUN

Large scale · upright posture — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 4
Share 15.4%

AEROFORCE

Large scale · level posture · neutral reserve — reaching-constrained in banked race evidence.

Boats 3
Share 11.5%

KEELRUN

Compact scale · upright posture · neutral reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 3.8%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 3.8%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 3.8%
Race Archetypes

Classified boats at Baltic Offshore Week 2026 (5–14 June 2026).

Baltic Offshore Week 2026 was raced 5–14 June 2026 from Kalev Yacht Club — this is its classified field, sorted by archetype as the fleet was classified at the time of the event. LEANRUN forms the largest block, LEANFORCE sits close behind, and HEFTLINE and AEROCORE complete the field. It is a small field, so every share below moves visibly with a single boat. The cards cover the whole classified field, not the Finnish boats alone, in the FleetEdge archetype view published nearest the event; Finland’s flag in the field: FIN11625, FIN11595 and FIN105.

Archetype assignments dated 2026-08-20 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

LEANRUN

Large scale · upright posture — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 4
Share 40.0%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 3
Share 30.0%

HEFTLINE

Compact scale · level posture · stiff reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 2
Share 20.0%

AEROCORE

Large scale · upright posture · tender reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 10.0%

Classified fleet view · 352 of 352 classified · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet Stories

The Finnish fleet signature.

The LEANFORCE lead

LEANFORCE is not merely the largest archetype in the Finnish fleet — it is 137 of 352 FIN-prefix boats, 38.9% of the national fleet. The archetype runs downwind-neutral in banked race evidence — in line with the fleet norm on that leg. A national fleet that concentrates two boats in five on compact-scale hulls has made a choice, and the cold archipelago seas of the Gulf of Finland are the reason to make it: short courses, tight water, and a premium on a boat you can work rather than one you can stretch. AEROFORCE's large, level-posture platforms follow at 13.9% (49 boats) and LEANRUN's large, upright platforms at 14.5% (51 boats) — a real second tier, but a distant one.

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Racing Fleets

Fleets in Finland.

Baltic Offshore

The Baltic fleet, analyzed.

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Baltic Offshore

The regional fleet where Finland's 352 FIN-prefix boats sit as the second-largest contributor behind Norway — a Norwegian-Finnish offshore circuit reaching Estonia, Sweden, and the southern Baltic states.

2025 ORC Worlds — Tallinn

The Baltic championship that drew 12 FIN-prefix boats — the second-largest national delegation in the 61-boat field, behind host Estonia — into the world title contested on the production racer-cruisers that populate the regional circuit.

Estonia

Finland's Baltic neighbor across the Gulf and the host of the 2025 ORC Worlds — the Estonian fleet sits inside the same Baltic Offshore circuit that anchors Finnish offshore racing.

Sweden

The peer Nordic fleet on the western Baltic shore — a different mix of designers and archetypes inside the same regional offshore frame, useful as a structural comparison to the Finnish read.

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