Germany

551 German boats across 43 international events. Engineering precision meets offshore racing — LEANRUN, AEROCORE and LEANFORCE share the head of the fleet, within eleven boats of one another.

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 German boat clusters, before the results arrive.
Photo: RThiele / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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National fleet view · as of 2026-08-20

National fleet view · 551 boats · as of 2026-08-20

At a glance

Germany — structural profile.

Scope
551 boats
540 ORC-rated · 11 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANRUN — 101 boats (18.3%)
  2. AEROCORE — 92 boats (16.7%)
  3. LEANFORCE — 91 boats (16.5%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Jeppesennielsen
83 boats (15.1%) — 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 2026-08-20
Fleet DNA

How the German boats are built.

551 boats in the fleet. 540 ORC-rated and 11 mapped IRC entries attributed across 8 archetypes — here's how they cluster, and what the collective signature reveals about how Germany races.

The German ORC Fleet Signature

Germany's fleet is an engineering-precision collective with depth across platforms rather than a single dominant type. Three archetypes sit within eleven boats of one another at the head of the fleet, and none of them commands it. LEANRUN is narrowly first at 18.3% (101 boats) — the large-scale, upright-posture platform whose hull proportion runs lean of the fleet median. AEROCORE is next at 16.7% (92 boats), the large-scale, upright-posture platform on a tender stability reserve, and LEANFORCE holds third at 16.5% (91 boats), the compact platform with the leanest proportion of the leading trio. AEROFORCE is fourth at 14.0% (77 boats) — a clear step below that leading group, not part of it. No single archetype dominates the long tail: the spread reflects a fleet that races from inshore Kiel courses to Baltic and North Sea offshore legs, and a German design tradition that favors engineering-grounded platforms over any one envelope.

  • LEANRUN 18.3% · 101 boats
  • AEROCORE 16.7% · 92 boats
  • LEANFORCE 16.5% · 91 boats

Dimension emphasis: Hull Efficiency · Platform Stability

At the 2024 Rolex Swan Cup, a four-boat German contingent took two class trophies — Isabella in Class 3SS_C and KATIMA in Class 6C_C. See the selected race result.

Complete data Latest published view

AEROSTREAM

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

strong upwind · weak reaching · strong downwind

Boats 72
Share 13.1%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 92
Share 16.7%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 55
Share 10.0%
  • 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 36
Share 6.5%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

LEANRUN

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 101
Share 18.3%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

weak upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 91
Share 16.5%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

SPARKFLEX

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

weak upwind · moderate reaching · weak downwind

Boats 27
Share 4.9%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

AEROFORCE

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 77
Share 14.0%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

Event cohort view · 4 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Selected Race Result

Rolex Swan Cup 2024 — German contingent.

4 of 551 fleet boats competed. 24 races — a constructed-course windward-leeward series at Porto Cervo, scored PCS. September 2024.

Headlines

Where the German entries led.

For Comparative Time, negative = faster than the rating expects (the boat beat its rating); positive = slower. For Crew Residual, negative = the crew beat the boat's archetype-expected pace (stronger execution); positive = below that baseline.

Comparative Time

1. ISABELLA · −177.4 sec/nm
2. ELAN · −145.1 sec/nm
3. KATIMA · −39.4 sec/nm

Crew Residual

1. ISABELLA · −177.4 sec/nm
2. ELAN · −145.1 sec/nm
3. FIXATION · −71.5 sec/nm

Sail Drive

1. KATIMA · 35
2. FIXATION · 28
3. ELAN · 23

Most recent on the German calendar: Cowes Week 2026 (1–7 August 2026). The Rolex Swan Cup stays the featured German result on this page; Cowes Week 2026 is the latest event in the current published view in which German boats sailed, and its event-cohort archetype view is rendered in the Race Archetypes section further down this panel.

Stories

What the result tells us.

Championship Citation

KATIMA — Swan Cup Champion, Class 6C_C.

KATIMA AEROSTREAM (GER 6593, Swan 45, German Frers) won Class 6C_C at the 2024 Rolex Swan Cup on just 3 points, atop a class standings sheet that runs 14 places deep. The Frers-drawn Swan 45 also led the four-boat German group on Sail Drive Index at 35 and posted a crew residual of −39.4 sec/nm — execution ahead of its archetype-expected pace, though the narrowest such margin of the four German entries. The same class delivered a second German podium: FIXATION AEROFORCE (Swan 46) took 3rd on 10 points. Two German boats in the top three of 6C_C — the deepest class the contingent entered.

  • 1st · Class 6C_C, 3 points · standings 14 deep
  • Sail Drive Index: 35 · top of the GER entries
Complete data Rolex Swan Cup 2024
Championship Citation

ISABELLA — Swan Cup Champion, Class 3SS_C.

ISABELLA LEANFORCE (GER-8510, Swan 36, Sparkman & Stephens) won Class 3SS_C at the 2024 Rolex Swan Cup on 7 points. The S&S-drawn Swan 36 backed the title with the best Comparative Time delta of the German contingent — −177.4 sec/nm against its ORC median allowance — sailing the vintage Sparkman & Stephens class against sister designs of its own era. Two German class titles from a four-boat contingent — a top-heavy result, not a fleet-wide German command of the regatta.

  • 1st · Class 3SS_C, 7 points
  • Comparative Time: −177.4 sec/nm · 2 scored comparisons · best of the GER entries
Complete data Rolex Swan Cup 2024
Performance Verdict

ELAN: second-fastest against the rating sheet, no silverware to show.

ELAN AEROFORCE (Swan 48, Sparkman & Stephens) posted the second-best Comparative Time delta of the German contingent — −145.1 sec/nm against its ORC median allowance, 32.3 sec/nm behind the class-winning Isabella. The crew residual backs the pace: at −145.1 sec/nm, ELAN's crew sailed ahead of the archetype-expected baseline — the second-widest execution margin of the four German entries, again behind Isabella. Both of the German boats that ran fastest against allowance came from the same Sparkman & Stephens lineage, yet only one of them left Porto Cervo with a class title: ELAN's own standing falls outside the citable class results — speed against the rating sheet and a winning scoreline are different ledgers.

  • Comparative Time: −145.1 sec/nm · 2nd of the GER entries
  • Crew residual: −145.1 sec/nm · 2nd of the GER entries
Partial data · 2 scored comparisons Rolex Swan Cup 2024
Nationality / Class Cluster

An all-Nautor German contingent at the Nautor regatta.

All four German boats at the Rolex Swan Cup were Swans — Isabella (Swan 36), KATIMA (Swan 45), FIXATION (Swan 46), and ELAN (Swan 48). The Swan Cup is Nautor's own owners' regatta at Porto Cervo, so a German contingent built entirely of Swans is the natural shape of who shows up. In the current FleetEdge view the four boats spread across the archetype map — the two Sparkman & Stephens designs split across LEANFORCE (Isabella) and AEROFORCE (ELAN), while the two Frers designs divide between AEROSTREAM (KATIMA) and AEROFORCE (FIXATION) — one builder's range, with AEROFORCE shared across two design eras. This is a four-boat slice at one regatta, not a German pattern that generalizes beyond Porto Cervo.

  • Contingent: 4 Swans · Swan 36 / 45 / 46 / 48
Structural · single-event FleetEdge Class cluster
Race Archetypes

29 boats classified in the Rolex Swan Cup 2024.

The Swan Cup field's structural makeup — how the 29-boat race group clusters across the FleetEdge archetypes, and where the four-boat German contingent sits within it. AEROFORCE carries just over half the event lens at 16 boats, with AEROSTREAM the other large group at 11; AEROCORE and LEANFORCE take one boat apiece. The German entries land two boats in AEROFORCE, one in AEROSTREAM, and one in LEANFORCE. This is the event lens, distinct from the 551-boat national Fleet DNA.

Archetypes reflect the current fleet view — no published view near this event yet.

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 16
Share 55.2%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 11
Share 37.9%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 1
Share 3.4%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 3.4%
Race Archetypes

Cowes Week 2026 (1–7 August 2026) — the most recent evidenced event on the German calendar; later racing awaits its official standings.

Cowes Week 2026, sailed 1–7 August 2026 out of Cowes, is the latest event in the current published view in which German boats sailed. This grid is the event lens for the whole classified Cowes Week cohort — how the boats classified in the FleetEdge analysis nearest the event cluster across the archetypes — not a German-only cut, and distinct from both the national Fleet DNA and the Rolex Swan Cup lens on this page.

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

AEROCORE

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

Boats 3
Share 20.0%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 4
Share 26.7%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 3
Share 20.0%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

LEANRUN

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

Boats 2
Share 13.3%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

Classified fleet view · 551 of 551 classified · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet Stories

The German fleet signature.

LEANRUN narrowly leads the German fleet

LEANRUN accounts for 101 of the 551 GER-flagged boats — 18.3%, the largest single archetype in the national fleet, but only just. AEROCORE follows at 16.7% (92 boats) and LEANFORCE at 16.5% (91 boats), so the three leading archetypes are separated by ten boats across a 551-boat fleet — a head of fleet that is shared rather than owned. AEROFORCE is fourth at 14.0% (77 boats) and AEROSTREAM fifth at 13.1% (72 boats). That shape reflects German racing's range, from inshore Kiel courses to Baltic and North Sea offshore legs, where no single envelope pays across the whole calendar: depth across platforms, not a single-type monoculture.

Jeppesen-Nielsen anchors the German fleet

Jeppesen-Nielsen — the X-Yachts design office — carries the largest single design share in the German fleet at 15.1% (83 boats), with the home-market German partnership Judel-Vrolijk and Farr Design behind it. The X-Yachts signature runs through the X-332 — Germany's most-common class — and its larger siblings on German entry lists. Even with one office in front, the German ledger keeps its engineering-grounded breadth rather than concentration — the rest of the fleet spreads across the full international design catalog.

Popular Classes

The boats that define German racing.

X-332 (16)

X-Yachts' compact Jeppesen-Nielsen keelboat — a Nordic cruiser-racer classic.

First 36.7 (8)

Beneteau's mid-size Farr-designed IRC weapon of the 2000s.

J-99 (7)

The J/Boats short-handed offshore specialist — a Class 40 successor in ORC trim.

XP-44 (7)

A racer-cruiser from X-Yachts.

First 36 (6)

A racer-cruiser from Beneteau.

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The global offshore racing landscape and how Germany's LEANRUN-led 551-boat fleet fits within it.

Platform Scale

How FleetEdge measures racing across geographies and fleet types — the archetypes of the 2026 census, drawn over eleven measured slots, and every fleet's hidden shape.

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