Spain

The Mediterranean powerhouse. LEANFORCE-led fleet DNA — a 29.1% plurality at the head of one of the broadest archetype spreads on FleetEdge.

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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 Spanish boat clusters, before the results arrive.
Kinship

A LEANFORCE-led Mediterranean fleet built around compact, hard-driven platforms.

Spain's ESP-flagged fleet is one of the largest single-country fleets on FleetEdge — led by LEANFORCE at 29.1%, the compact-scale family that races downwind-neutral in the banked race evidence — in line with the fleet norm on that leg. The order behind it is clear rather than tied — LEANRUN, the large-scale family that reads downwind-neutral in that same evidence, holds second at 19.4%, and the minimal-scale, tender-reserve SPARKFLEX one-designs complete the leading trio at 14.0% — the mix of a fleet that races everything from inshore club courses and one-design sportboat circuits to Balearic offshore legs and Atlantic Galician swell.

1,695
boats
24
events
330
races
National fleet view · as of 2026-08-20

ORC Authority: RFEV

Spanish offshore racing extends from the Balearics to Atlantic Galicia. The Real Federación Española de Vela governs 1,695 ESP-flagged boats in the FleetEdge fleet — one of the deepest single-country fleets on the platform. The signature is led from the compact end: LEANFORCE leads at 29.1%, LEANRUN follows at 19.4%, and SPARKFLEX completes the leading trio at 14.0%. All eight archetypes of the 2026 census are populated and the leader alone carries better than a quarter of the fleet. The coastline does the sorting: the compact LEANFORCE platforms hold the middle of the fleet on every leg that rewards a hard-driven boat, inshore club courses and the sportboat circuits reward crews that keep a tender-reserve one-design on its feet, and the Balearic offshore legs suit the large-scale LEANRUN platforms — a family that reads downwind-neutral in the banked race evidence, in line with the fleet norm on that leg. Spain's signature now reads as a decisive lead over a wide field — one family well clear at the head, and real depth behind it.

The designer market is fragmented. No drawing board carries the 15% share that would mark a dominant Spanish designer; Farr Design leads at 8.3% (141 boats), the most-common voice in a deeply diversified ledger. The rest of the field is a long tail of Finot, Felci, and other European architects, alongside Spanish indigenous boards and Beneteau and Dufour production houses. Spanish depth comes from breadth, not from any single archetype dominating the national fleet.

National fleet view · 1,695 boats · as of 2026-08-20

At a glance

Spain — structural profile.

Scope
1,695 boats
1,626 ORC-rated · 69 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANFORCE — 494 boats (29.1%)
  2. LEANRUN — 328 boats (19.4%)
  3. SPARKFLEX — 237 boats (14.0%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Farr Design
141 boats (8.3%) — 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 Spanish boats are built.

1,695 boats in the fleet. 1,694 classified — 69 of them mapped IRC entries — across the eight archetypes of the 2026 census; here's how they cluster, and what the collective signature reveals about how Spain races.

The Spanish ORC Fleet Signature

Spain's fleet is a LEANFORCE-led Mediterranean collective — a broad field with one clear plurality at its head, sorted by compact platforms rather than by scale. LEANFORCE leads at 29.1% (494 boats) — the compact-scale family that races downwind-neutral in the banked race evidence — in line with the fleet norm on that leg — and the largest single block on this page by a wide margin. LEANRUN follows at 19.4% (328 boats), the large-scale, upright-posture family that is likewise downwind-neutral in the same evidence. SPARKFLEX completes the leading trio at 14.0% (237 boats), the minimal-scale, tender-reserve one-designs that put the premium on the people aboard rather than the drawing board. The leader holds better than a quarter of the fleet on its own and all eight archetypes of the 2026 census are populated — a deep field standing behind a decisive head, the breadth of a fleet that races from inshore club courses to Atlantic Galician long-swell geometry.

  • LEANFORCE 29.1% · 494 boats
  • LEANRUN 19.4% · 328 boats
  • SPARKFLEX 14.0% · 237 boats

Dimension emphasis: Sail Performance · Condition & Tactical

At the ORC Sportboat European Championship, SOS MAR MENOR (ESP-02, Sonar 23) took the SB class title from a five-boat Spanish contingent — the stiffest platform among the entries converting consistency into a championship. See the selected race result.

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 237
Share 14.0%
  • 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 328
Share 19.4%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 134
Share 7.9%
  • First 45
  • First 40
  • Oceanis 43

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

weak upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 494
Share 29.1%
  • Elan 333
  • Miura
  • Dufour 30 Classic

KEELRUN

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

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 81
Share 4.8%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

AEROFORCE

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 212
Share 12.5%
  • 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 96
Share 5.7%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 112
Share 6.6%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

Event cohort view · 5 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Selected Race Result

ORC Sportboat European Championship — Class SB.

5 of 1,695 fleet boats competed. 8 races — one coastal leg and a seven-race windward-leeward series, scored ToT and PCS. July 2024.

Headlines

Where the entries led.

The most recent race for the Spanish fleet in the current published view is the Round the Island Race, sailed 11 July 2026; the archetype spread of its ORC-measured field is profiled in the Race Archetypes grid that closes this panel. The Sportboat European Championship cards below remain the featured lens.

Comparative Time and Crew Residual both read negative-is-better: a negative figure means the boat went faster than its rating expected (it beat its rating), positive means slower. This small sportboat group all carried positive deltas — the class sailed under conservative allowances — so the cards rank from the smallest gap to the rating up.

Comparative Time

1. ORIENT EXPRESS 6.5 · 42.4 sec/nm
2. PINTO TERCERO · 47.0 sec/nm
3. SOS MAR MENOR · 56.9 sec/nm

Crew Residual

1. ORIENT EXPRESS 6.5 · 42.4 sec/nm
2. PINTO TERCERO · 47.0 sec/nm
3. SOS MAR MENOR · 60.6 sec/nm

RM / Displacement

1. SOS MAR MENOR · 29.5
2. UN MAR SIN BARRERAS · 29.2
3. ORIENT EXPRESS 6.5 · 25.7

The ORC World Championship 2026 (8–14 May 2026) also has its archetype field profiled in this panel’s Race Archetypes sections below, ahead of the Round the Island Race grid.

Stories

What the result tells us.

Championship Citation

SOS MAR MENOR — European Champion, Class SB.

SOS MAR MENOR KEELRUN (ESP-02, Sonar 23) won the SB class at the ORC Sportboat European Championship on 15 points — a Spanish title carried by a Kirby-designed three-person keelboat. The win came from consistency across the eight-race series, not from leading any single allowance dimension: SOS MAR MENOR ranked third of the six boats FleetEdge observed in Comparative Time median. The Sonar banked low scores race after race while faster-rated rivals dropped points, and a clean series beat a quick one. A five-boat Spanish contingent raced; one of them took the trophy home.

  • 1st · Class SB · 15 pts over 8 races
  • Top Spanish boat · Sonar 23, Kirby design
Complete data ORC Sportboat Euros (ORC Sportboat European Championship)
Hull Edge

SOS MAR MENOR: the stiffest platform among the entries, and the one that converted.

The champion carried the highest righting-moment-to-displacement ratio of the six observed boats — 29.5, against 25.7 for the allowance leader — on a sail-drive index of 22, tied for the smallest in the race group. That is a stability-first, modest-sail-area platform: not the configuration that wins the Comparative Time column, and it didn't — SOS MAR MENOR sat third on allowance median at 56.9 sec/nm. What the stiffness bought was predictability. The Sonar 23 converted a mid-pack physics profile into the lowest points total in the class, 15 over eight races, while the higher-sail-drive boats ahead of it on the water dropped places on the scoreboard. The platform's edge showed up in the standings, not in the speed columns.

  • RM/displacement: 29.5 · best of the entries
  • Sail drive index: 22 · tied-lowest of the entries · 1st in class
Complete data FleetEdge Physics vs result
Cross-Family Contrast

ORIENT EXPRESS 6.5: both dimension families led, third on the scoreboard.

ORIENT EXPRESS 6.5 (TUR, Farr 25 OD) led the observed race group in both Comparative Time median and crew residual, at 42.4 sec/nm apiece — yet finished third in the SB class on 22 points. PINTO TERCERO (ESP, GP-26) sat second on allowance at 47.0 and finished fourth on 23. The two boats that led the allowance-and-crew dimensions both ended up behind SOS MAR MENOR on the scoreline. Allowance-median leadership measures how a boat sails relative to its rating on the water; a championship measures who banks the lowest points across a discard-scored series. They are different questions, and at this regatta they had different answers.

  • Allowance leader: ORIENT EXPRESS 6.5 · 3rd in class, 22 pts
  • Champion: SOS MAR MENOR · 3rd in Comp Time
Complete data FleetEdge Allowance vs result
Race Archetypes

6 boats classified in the ORC Sportboat European Championship.

The race group FleetEdge observed at this event — five Spanish entries plus the Turkish allowance leader — splits evenly between two compact families: three boats, the champion Sonar 23 among them, carry the KEELRUN signature, reaching-neutral in the banked race evidence, and three carry the minimal-scale, tender-reserve SPARKFLEX signature — a sportboat cohort where the racing separated crews as much as hull families. Archetypes reflect the current fleet view — no published view near this event yet.

KEELRUN

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

Boats 3
Share 50.0%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 3
Share 50.0%
Race Archetypes

Classified boats at the ORC World Championship 2026 (8–14 May 2026).

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

The ORC World Championship 2026 was raced 8–14 May 2026 off Sorrento. The Worlds entry is sorted here by archetype as the fleet was classified at the time of the event: the AEROSTREAM family carries the largest block of the classified field, with AEROCORE and LEANRUN the next families behind, and the Spanish entries in the field classified across those same families at this vintage.

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 44
Share 43.6%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 16
Share 15.8%

LEANRUN

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

Boats 15
Share 14.9%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 9
Share 8.9%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 7
Share 6.9%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 6
Share 5.9%

KEELRUN

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

Boats 4
Share 4.0%
Race Archetypes

Round the Island Race 2026 — the ORC-measured field, 11 July 2026.

The cards below profile the archetype spread of the ORC-measured boats in the field, in the FleetEdge analysis published nearest the event — the profile of that field, not a Spanish national distribution; the national picture stays in Fleet DNA.

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

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 4
Share 22.2%

LEANRUN

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

Boats 3
Share 16.7%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 4
Share 22.2%

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 1
Share 5.6%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 5.6%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 5.6%

Classified fleet view · 1,694 of 1,695 classified · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet Stories

The Spanish fleet signature.

Farr Design — Spain's most-common drawing board

In a fleet split across Farr, Finot, and Felci lines, no designer dominates. Farr Design carries the largest single share at 8.3% (141 boats), the single most-represented voice in a deeply diversified ledger. The Spanish design market reads as breadth rather than concentration — production houses, Spanish indigenous boards, and a long tail of European architects fill out the remainder, with no drawing board approaching the share that would mark a dominant national designer.

The LEANFORCE cluster — Spain's plurality family is its compact end

LEANFORCE carries the largest single share of the Spanish fleet at 29.1% (494 boats) — the compact-scale family whose banked race evidence reads downwind-neutral, in line with the fleet norm on its most differentiating leg. The lead is decisive rather than narrow: LEANRUN, the large-scale family that is likewise downwind-neutral in that evidence, is second at 19.4% (328 boats), ten points back. Spain's long-running design preference reads as the compact, hard-driven platform first, a large-scale second family behind it, and a long tail of everything else.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Spanish racing.

Dufour 34 (35)

A production racer-cruiser from Dufour — one of the most-numerous keelboats on the Spanish club circuit.

Fortuna 9 (34)

A compact Spanish one-design class — a domestic-built racer with a long club-racing tradition on Iberian water.

First 31.7 (32)

A Beneteau First-series racer-cruiser — a fixture of mixed ORC fleets across the Mediterranean.

First 40.7 (31)

A Beneteau First offshore platform — the larger end of the First line that carries Spanish crews into championship classes.

J-80 (27)

A J/Boats one-design sportboat — the strict-class keelboat that anchors Spanish inshore and grand-prix sportboat racing.

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Mediterranean Championship

The cross-national Mediterranean fleet that Spanish boats race into — where the LEANFORCE-led Spanish fleet meets the broad-spectrum Italian fleet on shared water.

Fleet Archetypes

The archetypes of the 2026 census behind the Spanish signature — including LEANFORCE, the compact-scale family that leads this fleet by ten points, and KEELRUN, the compact family where SB Euros champion SOS MAR MENOR sits in the current fleet view.

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