Kinship
A fleet led by AEROCORE, with a distinctive Humphreys signature.
23 Slovenian boats under the Jadralna zveza Slovenije — a small fleet along 46 kilometers of northern Adriatic coastline, with AEROCORE at the head of the archetype distribution at 30.4% (7 boats) and AEROFORCE second at 21.7% (5 boats), and Rob Humphreys' design office anchoring six of the 23 hulls. At this fleet size, the structural read is real but small-sample sensitive: one hull is 4.3% of the whole, so every share moves visibly with a single new measurement.
Domestic competitive fleet · as of 2026-09-02
ORC Authority: Jadralna zveza Slovenije
The Jadralna zveza Slovenije governs a fleet concentrated on the short stretch of coast between Koper and Piran. Izola and Portorož are the racing centers — compact, sheltered northern Adriatic waters that produce close tactical racing. Twenty-three boats is a small fleet by any measure, and the small-sample caveat travels with every claim on this page: one hull is 4.3% of the whole, so a single new measurement can shift a share by several points. What the fleet does carry is a distinctive design signature, with the Humphreys office anchoring more than a quarter of the classified fleet from Elan hulls built within kilometers of the home-water race course.
AEROCORE leads the Slovenian archetype distribution at 30.4% (7 boats), with AEROFORCE second at 21.7% (5 boats). AEROCORE is the fleet's large-platform group — large-scale hulls on a tender righting reserve that read downwind-neutral in race results — and it takes in the pair of Seascape First 36s, the Elan 410 and the Pogo 10.50. AEROFORCE is the large, level, neutral-reserve hull that carries a measured reaching advantage in race results. Behind them KEELRUN and SPARKFLEX sit level at 13.0% (3 boats each) — the compact, upright, neutral-reserve shape that reads upwind-neutral in race results, and the minimal-scale platform that sails upright on a tender reserve and asks moderate discipline of its crew. LEANRUN and LEANFORCE follow at 8.7% (2 boats each), with AEROSTREAM — the towering, level-posture platform on a stiff righting reserve, downwind-neutral in race results — at 4.3% (1 boat). Read the ordering as real and the precision as provisional — at this fleet size one hull is 4.3%, and a single new measurement can reorder the two-way tie behind AEROFORCE.
Rob Humphreys is the leading designer voice at 26.1%, with Sam Manuard's Seascape line and Peter Norlin's Elan Express trio tied behind at 13.0% each — a Humphreys lead that is unusual in continental European fleets, where the designer typically surfaces through UK and French offshore programs rather than as a single-country anchor. The Slovenian connection runs through the Humphreys-designed Elan hulls — the 310, the 410, the 450, an E 6 and a pair of E 5s — built at the Elan yard near Begunje and raced on the same Koper-Izola-Piran water where they are engineered and refined. Twelve of the twenty-three boats, just over half the fleet, came out of the two domestic yards (nine Elan-built, three Seascape-built). The forward path runs the JZS domestic Adriatic circuit — Izola and Portorož club racing, the ORC Prvenstvo Slovenije national championship, the Croatian Adriatic calendar extending southward, and the Barcolana in nearby Trieste on the second Sunday of October drawing Slovenian entries to one of the world's largest single-start regattas.