The Hong Kong ORC Fleet Signature
Hong Kong's fleet is a sportboat-cored South China Sea collective with a leading share of Farr-designed boats, racing from Victoria Harbour to Subic Bay. KEELRUN leads outright at 28.2% (20 boats) — the compact, upright tier with a neutral righting reserve, and the country's one-design engine: the nine-strong Magic 25 fleet and the five-boat Cape 31 block both land here, fourteen of its twenty boats. AEROFORCE follows at 18.3% (13 boats) — the large cruiser-racer tier that local lore trusts to hold its gauge upwind (a reputation the race results do not yet corroborate). LEANRUN sits at 14.1% (10 boats) — the upright tier on the Beneteau First lines — and AEROSTREAM matches it exactly at 14.1% (10 boats), no rank between them: the towering, stiff-reserve grand-prix platforms, the Ker, TP-52 and Neo-430 tier at the head of the RHKYC inventory — and AEROCORE follows at 12.7% (9 boats), the large, upright cruiser-racer platform tier; in a cohort of 71 a single boat's move is enough to reorder these middle steps, so the gaps read as adjacency rather than separation. KEELRUN and AEROFORCE occupy the top two steps; together they hold 46.5% of the fleet. The Farr-designed share is the largest single design block at 16.9% (12 boats), running through the Beneteau First production line; all eight archetypes are represented in these waters.
- KEELRUN 28.2% · 20 boats
- AEROFORCE 18.3% · 13 boats
- AEROSTREAM 14.1% · 10 boats
- LEANRUN 14.1% · 10 boats
Dimension emphasis: Hull Efficiency · Comparative Time
Farr Design anchors the largest designer share at 16.9% (12 boats) — a single-designer concentration that runs through the Beneteau First production line and the Hong Kong offshore backbone — while the nine-strong Magic 25 one-design fleet and the five-boat Cape 31 block give KEELRUN's top step its sportboat core. KEELRUN and AEROFORCE together hold 46.5% of the 71-boat fleet, with LEANRUN and AEROSTREAM tied at the next step — a fleet shape that reads the South China Sea's full pressure range without picking a single condition band — and the fleet runs RHKYC domestic first in 2026 (Around the Island Race, the Autumn Regatta series, South Coast offshore) with the Fastnet, Sydney Hobart, and Mediterranean maxi destination calendar behind.