Netherlands

457 Dutch boats across 48 events, led by LEANRUN at 23.4% — large-scale, upright-sailing hulls nearly six points clear of the compact-scale LEANFORCE, with AEROFORCE third, North Sea-bred breadth across the international circuit.

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The hidden shape of the fleet.
The kinds of boat that keep appearing when every hull is measured the same way.

How every Dutch boat clusters, before the results arrive.
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A broadly-campaigning fleet with a large-scale, upright-sailing core.

The Netherlands' fleet races across the North Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean championship circuits, and the classic UK and Atlantic offshore events under Watersportverbond governance — a broadly-campaigning fleet led by the large-scale, upright-sailing LEANRUN archetype at the top, with the 2026 ORC Double-Handed World Championship raced on home North Sea waters in May.

457
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50
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238
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Domestic competitive fleet · as of 2026-09-02

ORC Authority: Watersportverbond

The Watersportverbond governs a fleet that campaigns broadly rather than staying local. Dutch boats race the North Sea domestically, head south for Mediterranean championships, and remain regulars at the Rolex Fastnet Race, the RORC offshore circuit, and the Baltic. The Netherlands fields J/Boats, X-Yachts, Dehler, and Beneteau production lines alongside a long tail of one-off builds — and the way those platforms cluster has a clear leader: LEANRUN, the large-scale shape that sails upright, carries close to a quarter of the fleet, nearly six points ahead of the compact-scale LEANFORCE.

LEANRUN leads the Dutch archetype distribution. LEANRUN heads the fleet at 23.4% (107 boats) — hulls that sit upwind-neutral in race results — with LEANFORCE at 17.7% (81 boats) nearly six points behind, the compact-scale shape that holds a measured downwind advantage in the same evidence, and AEROFORCE at 13.6% (62 boats) third, the three at the top carrying just over half the fleet between them. Johnstone R is the most-common voice on the drawing-board ledger at 11.4% (52 boats, still below the 15% dominance threshold), with Judel-Vrolijk and the Jeppesen-Nielsen X-Yachts boards following — a J/Boats production presence sharing the leaderboard with the German offshore design partnership that has shaped a generation of Dutch grand-prix entries.

The world championship came home in May. Fifteen Watersportverbond-registered boats raced the ORC Double-Handed World Championship on North Sea waters (May 21–22, 2026) — the largest Dutch race group at any world championship in the archive, and the majority of the 26 boats with scored observations at the event. Two offshore tests per class — a short course of roughly 32–40 nautical miles and a long course of roughly 193–230 — scored on time-on-time with ECMWF weather routing.

National fleet view · 457 boats · as of 2026-09-02

At a glance

Netherlands — structural profile.

Scope
457 boats
444 ORC-rated · 13 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANRUN — 107 boats (23.4%)
  2. LEANFORCE — 81 boats (17.7%)
  3. AEROFORCE — 62 boats (13.6%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes (the fleet’s eight recurring design types) cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Johnstone R
52 boats (11.4%) — 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
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Dutch fleet.

457 Dutch boats across 8 archetypes — led by LEANRUN at 23.4%, with LEANFORCE at 17.7% and AEROFORCE at 13.6% behind. Here's how they cluster, and what the collective signature reveals about how the Netherlands races.

The Dutch Fleet Signature

The Netherlands' fleet leads with the large-scale, upright-sailing LEANRUN shape, with the compact-scale LEANFORCE behind it. LEANRUN leads at 23.4% (107 boats) — hulls that sit upwind-neutral in race results, a shape that keeps pace with the fleet norm on the windward legs of North Sea and offshore courses. LEANFORCE sits nearly six points behind at 17.7% (81 boats) — compact-scale hulls that show a measured downwind advantage in the same banked evidence — and AEROFORCE follows at 13.6% (62 boats), the large-scale, level-sailing platform on a neutral stability reserve. The three lead archetypes carry just over half the fleet between them, and the supporting field stays broad — SPARKFLEX, HEFTLINE, AEROCORE, and KEELRUN all hold ground behind them — the signature of a fleet that buys across production one-designs and one-off builds, and campaigns from North Sea club racing through Mediterranean and Atlantic offshore circuits.

  • LEANRUN 23.4% · 107 boats
  • LEANFORCE 17.7% · 81 boats
  • AEROFORCE 13.6% · 62 boats

Dimension emphasis: Sail Performance · Condition & Tactical

In May 2026, 37 Dutch boats raced the North Sea Regatta, the Open Dutch ORC Championships, on home waters — and Dutch boats won all four divisions — see what we saw →.

Complete data Latest published view

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 107
Share 23.4%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 81
Share 17.7%
  • Elan 333
  • Miura
  • Dufour 30 Classic

AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 62
Share 13.6%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

SPARKFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 59
Share 12.9%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 53
Share 11.6%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

KEELRUN

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

strong upwind · strong reaching · strong downwind

Boats 39
Share 8.5%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 39
Share 8.5%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 15
Share 3.3%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

Event cohort view · 37 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Selected Race Result

North Sea Regatta 2026 (Open Dutch ORC Championships) — four ORC/IRC divisions.

37 of 457 fleet boats competed. The North Sea Regatta 2026 carried the Open Dutch ORC Championships, published as series standings across four ORC/IRC divisions — a double-handed division and three fully-crewed divisions — in a 43-entry regatta, dated 18–25 May 2026 in the current published view. The published record holds positions and points; the result below reads as standings and identity.

Headlines

Four Dutch class wins at the home championship.

Dutch boats won all four published divisions of the North Sea Regatta 2026, and 37 of the 43 entries in the published standings raced under Dutch sail numbers. This event publishes series standings and points; FleetEdge computes no pace products for it — the boards below are the Dutch entries' published series positions in each division, points as published, with a visiting entry's place left as a gap in the numbering.

Race Standings · Double-Handed

1st Jetpack · 5 pts
2nd X-Esteem · 5.5 pts
4th Waverider · 14 pts

Race Standings · Class 1

1st Olympix · 10.5 pts
2nd STELLA17 · 17 pts
3rd CheckMATe · 24 pts

Race Standings · Class 2

1st Warp 5 · 19.5 pts
2nd Rosetta · 27.5 pts
3rd Xpectation · 43 pts

Race Standings · Class 3

1st Goodtimes · 3.5 pts
2nd Que Guapa · 7 pts
3rd Stardust · 13.5 pts

Race Standings are the published series positions in each division, read at class grain and listed for the Dutch entries only; a visiting entry's podium place appears as a gap in the numbering. Published class field sizes are not carried at class grain in the current view, so no “of N” is shown. Source: FleetEdge published data (as of 2026-09-02).

Stories

What we saw at the Open Dutch ORC Championships.

37 Dutch boats raced the North Sea Regatta 2026, the Open Dutch ORC Championships, and Dutch boats took every division. The published record for this event is series standings and points across four ORC/IRC divisions, so what follows reads the standings: the boats that won them, the podiums the home entry filled, and how the race group's archetype mix compares with the national fleet.

Championship Citation

Jetpack — Event Champion, Double-Handed Division

Jetpack HEFTLINE (NED 1030R, JPK 10.30) won the double-handed division of the Open Dutch ORC Championships on 5 points. The margin was half a point: X-Esteem AEROCORE (NED 4103, Xr-41) finished second on 5.5, the third step went to a visiting entry, and Waverider HEFTLINE (NED 450, Sunfast 3200) was fourth on 14 — 12 boats resolved in FleetEdge's view in the division, ten of them Dutch. A compact production two-hander in the HEFTLINE shape took the home double-handed title from a larger, tender-reserve AEROCORE hull by the narrowest published margin of the regatta.

  • Position: 1st, Double-Handed division · 5 points, published series standings
  • Archetype: HEFTLINE · the event's second-largest archetype group
Complete data North Sea Regatta 2026
Multi-Champion Cluster

Four Dutch class wins across four divisions.

Every division of the Open Dutch ORC Championships went to a Dutch boat. Olympix AEROSTREAM (NED 7084, Landmark 43 Mod) won Class 1 on 10.5 points among 8 boats resolved in FleetEdge's view; Warp 5 HEFTLINE (NED 9060, J-99) won Class 2 on 19.5 points, the largest division at 19 boats resolved in FleetEdge's view; Goodtimes LEANRUN (NED 8521, Waarschip 1076) won Class 3 on 3.5 points; and Jetpack took the double-handed division. Four winners from four different drawing boards — a Mills-designed 43-footer, a J/Boats short-handed production hull, a Dutch-built Waarschip and a JPK — and three archetype groups among them, with the two HEFTLINE winners the only shared shape.

  • Class wins: 4 of 4 divisions · Double-Handed, Class 1, Class 2, Class 3
  • Winning designs: JPK 10.30 · Landmark 43 Mod · J-99 · Waarschip 1076
Complete data North Sea Regatta 2026
Nationality / Class Cluster

Three all-Dutch podiums and a J/Boats bench in Class 2.

In the three fully-crewed divisions, all nine published podium places went to Dutch boats. Class 1 ran Olympix, STELLA17 (Sydney 46) and CheckMATe (Mat 1070); Class 2 ran Warp 5, Rosetta (Dehler 36) and Xpectation (XP-33); Class 3 ran Goodtimes, Que Guapa (X-332) and Stardust (Nicholson 43). Class 2 was also where the national J/Boats presence showed: seven of its 17 Dutch entries were J/Boats hulls — three J-99s, three J-109s and a J-97 — and the division went to the J-99 Warp 5, the same short-handed production line that fielded five boats across the regatta.

  • Podium places: 9 of 9 Dutch · Classes 1, 2 and 3, published series positions
  • Class 2 J/Boats: 7 of 17 Dutch entries · J-99 × 3, J-109 × 3, J-97 × 1
Complete data North Sea Regatta 2026
Fleet vs Race Composition Shift

A LEANRUN-heavy championship field from a fleet that ranks HEFTLINE fifth.

The Dutch national fleet leads with LEANRUN (23.4%), LEANFORCE (17.7%) and AEROFORCE (13.6%) — a distribution where HEFTLINE sits fifth at 11.6%. The championship field tilted hard toward the two large groups: LEANRUN carried 19 of the 43 classified boats (44.2%, close to twice its national share) and HEFTLINE 12 (27.9%, well over twice its national share), while LEANFORCE, second in the national ledger, brought only 4 of 43 (9.3%), and neither SPARKFLEX, fourth nationally, nor KEELRUN put a classified boat on the line. The race group and the national fleet are two different populations; the home championship drew the country's LEANRUN core and its compact HEFTLINE production two-handers in far greater proportion than the fleet-wide ledger would suggest.

  • NED national top-3: 23.4 / 17.7 / 13.6% · LEANRUN / LEANFORCE / AEROFORCE
  • Championship field: 19 of 43 LEANRUN · 44.2% vs 23.4% national; HEFTLINE 27.9% vs 11.6%
Complete data Race group vs fleet
Race Archetypes

43 boats classified in the North Sea Regatta 2026 (Open Dutch ORC Championships).

Archetype assignments dated 2026-09-02 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 19
Share 44.2%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 12
Share 27.9%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 4
Share 9.3%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

Boats 4
Share 9.3%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 3
Share 7.0%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 1
Share 2.3%

Classified fleet view · 455 of 457 classified · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet Stories

The Dutch fleet's signature.

LEANRUN carries close to a quarter of the Dutch fleet

LEANRUN is the leading archetype across the Dutch fleet at 107 boats (23.4%) — the largest single share, and one of two Dutch shapes to clear the 15% dominance mark, nearly six points ahead of LEANFORCE at 81 boats (17.7%), with AEROFORCE (13.6%) third. LEANRUN sits upwind-neutral in race results; LEANFORCE, its nearest rival, is compact-scale and carries a measured downwind advantage in the same banked evidence — a stronger showing than the fleet norm on the running legs. That the Netherlands leads with those two in that order says something structural about how the fleet is built: a national ledger topped by large, upright-sailing hulls, with the compact platforms massed immediately behind them rather than displaced to the tail.

Johnstone R — the Netherlands' most-common design voice

Across the Dutch fleet, Johnstone R is the most-represented designer at 52 boats (11.4%) — the largest single share in a fleet where no board crosses the dominance mark. Judel-Vrolijk and the Jeppesen-Nielsen X-Yachts boards follow. The J/Boats production lines — J-109, J-105, J-99, J-35 — carry that share through the Dutch club and offshore fleet, sharing the leaderboard with the German Judel-Vrolijk partnership that has shaped a generation of Dutch grand-prix entries. The drawing-board ledger is broad: market presence, not market command.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Netherlands racing.

J-109 (11)

J/Boats' mid-2000s IRC 35-footer — one-design capable, handicap friendly.

J-105 (8)

The J/Boats 35 that built club asymmetric racing.

First 31.7 (7)

Beneteau's Finot-designed club racer — the backbone of European ORC fleets.

J-99 (7)

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

J-35 (6)

A racer-cruiser from Tillotson-Pearson.

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