Spain

The Mediterranean powerhouse. LEANFORCE-led fleet DNA — a 28.9% 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 28.9%, the compact-scale family that carries a measured downwind advantage in race results — a stronger showing than the fleet norm on that leg. The order behind it is clear rather than tied — LEANRUN, the family that reads upwind-neutral in that same evidence, holds second at 21.1%, and the minimal-scale, tender-reserve SPARKFLEX one-designs complete the leading trio at 14.4% — 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.

1,697
boats
27
events
162
races
National fleet view · as of 2026-09-02

ORC Authority: RFEV

Spanish offshore racing extends from the Balearics to Atlantic Galicia. The Real Federación Española de Vela governs 1,697 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 28.9%, LEANRUN follows at 21.1%, and SPARKFLEX completes the leading trio at 14.4%. 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 LEANRUN platforms — a family that reads upwind-neutral in race results, 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 8.4% (142 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 · 1,697 boats · as of 2026-09-02

At a glance

Spain — structural profile.

Scope
1,697 boats
1,628 ORC-rated · 69 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANFORCE — 490 boats (28.9%)
  2. LEANRUN — 358 boats (21.1%)
  3. SPARKFLEX — 245 boats (14.4%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes (the fleet’s eight recurring design types) cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Farr Design
142 boats (8.4%) — 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
Fleet DNA

How the Spanish boats are built.

1,697 boats in the fleet. 1,696 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 28.9% (490 boats) — the compact-scale family that carries a measured downwind advantage in race results — a stronger showing than the fleet norm on that leg — and the largest single block on this page by a wide margin. LEANRUN follows at 21.1% (358 boats), the family that reads upwind-neutral in the same evidence — in line with the fleet norm on that leg. SPARKFLEX completes the leading trio at 14.4% (245 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 28.9% · 490 boats
  • LEANRUN 21.1% · 358 boats
  • SPARKFLEX 14.4% · 245 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

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 490
Share 28.9%
  • Elan 333
  • Miura
  • Dufour 30 Classic

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 358
Share 21.1%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

SPARKFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 245
Share 14.4%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 223
Share 13.1%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 135
Share 8.0%
  • First 45
  • First 40
  • Oceanis 43

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 109
Share 6.4%
  • 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 79
Share 4.7%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 57
Share 3.4%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

Event cohort view · 40 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Selected Race Result

43rd Copa del Rey – ORC European Championship 2025 — Class C.

40 of 1,697 fleet boats competed. A multi-race series off Palma on windward-leeward and offshore courses, scored PCS and ToT across ORC Classes 0, A, B and C. 29 July – 2 August 2025.

Headlines

Where the Spanish entries led at Palma.

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 European Championship cards below are the featured lens.

Comparative Time reads negative-is-better: a negative figure means the boat went faster than its rating expected (it beat its rating), positive means slower. Crew Residual reads the same way: negative means the crew beat the boat’s archetype-expected pace, positive means below that baseline. Every Spanish entry in the observed field carried a positive Comparative Time delta at Palma, so that card ranks from the smallest gap to the rating up; the Crew Residual card ranks the Spanish entries by where they stand in the whole observed field.

Class Standings

1. MON DE L'ONA II · 1st in Class C · 18.5 pts
2. HYDRA · 3rd in Class A · 32 pts
3. DE 6 · 4th in Class C · 34 pts

Comparative Time

1. MON DE L'ONA II · +2.0 sec/nm
2. SAIOLA XIV · +6.2 sec/nm
3. AIFOS · +6.4 sec/nm

Crew Residual

1. MON DE L'ONA II · 100th percentile
2. MESTRAL FAST · 99th percentile
3. FALAPOUCO · 98th percentile

Standings are the published result. Source: published 43rd Copa del Rey – ORC European Championship 2025 series standings.

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

MON DE L'ONA II — Event Champion, Class C

MON DE L'ONA II (ESP-7834, Vrolijk 37) won Class C at the 43rd Copa del Rey – ORC European Championship 2025 on 18.5 points, clear of the Cape 31 EARLY BIRD on 24 — a Spanish European title on home water. The result and the analytics point the same way. The Judel Vrolijk design sailed closer to its rating expectation than any other Spanish boat at Palma — the 95th percentile of the 114-boat observed field on Comparative Time, against a Spanish contingent that otherwise ran well above its allowances — and its crew residual sat at the top of the whole observed field. At the analysis nearest the event, MON DE L'ONA II classified LEANRUN, the all-rounders the race results read as upwind-neutral, and turned a rating-true platform into the title over a multi-race series sailed on windward-leeward and offshore courses.

  • 1st in Class C · series standings, 18.5 pts
  • Comparative Time: 95th percentile · closest Spanish entry to its rating in the 114-boat observed field
Complete data Copa del Rey – ORC European Championship 2025
Crew-Carried

MON DE L'ONA II: the Spanish crew furthest ahead of its evaluated pace at Palma.

All 40 Spanish crews scored at the 43rd Copa del Rey – ORC European Championship 2025 sailed ahead of their evaluated pace, and MON DE L'ONA II’s ran furthest ahead of it — the 100th percentile of the 112-boat observed field on Crew Residual, the top of the whole championship. The residual is a crew reading, not a platform one: FleetEdge sets each boat’s evaluated pace from its archetype baseline — MON DE L'ONA II classified LEANRUN at the analysis nearest the event — and reads what the crew took off that baseline race by race. The platform side of the ledger was strong on its own terms: on Comparative Time the Vrolijk 37 sat at the 95th percentile of the 114-boat observed field, the closest Spanish entry to its rating. The two readings together are the shape of the Class C title — a rating-true platform, and a crew that beat the pace that platform was evaluated to hold by a wider margin than any other Spanish crew in the regatta.

  • Crew Residual: 100th percentile · the deepest of the 40 Spanish crew readings, all 40 ahead of their evaluated pace
  • Comparative Time: 95th percentile · the closest Spanish entry to its rating in the 114-boat observed field
Partial data FleetEdge Crew Residual
Performance Verdict

HYDRA: the closest Spanish Class A entry to its rating, and a podium to show for it.

HYDRA (ESP-19981, DK-46) finished 3rd in Class A on 32 points, in a class won by a sister DK-46, KAJSA III — and it earned the podium by sailing nearest its rating expectation of the Spanish Class A boats. HYDRA’s Comparative Time gap to the certificate rating was the smallest among the Spanish entries in Class A — the 87th percentile of the 114-boat observed field, with NADIR, the Swan 42 that finished a place behind it, next in that order — while its crew residual landed at the 58th percentile of the observed field, close to the median. The verdict is a platform one: a Mills design sailed to its numbers converted into a podium, not an outlier crew performance. At the analysis nearest the event, HYDRA classified AEROSTREAM — towering scale, level posture, stiff reserve, downwind-neutral in race results — the archetype that carried the largest share of the Palma field.

  • 3rd in Class A · series standings, 32 pts
  • Comparative Time: 87th percentile · best of the Spanish Class A entries in the 114-boat observed field
Complete data FleetEdge Comparative Time
Fleet vs Race Composition Shift

The large-platform Spanish contingent at Palma

AEROSTREAM carries 13 of the 40 Spanish entries at the analysis nearest the event — 32.5% of the contingent, against 3.4% of the national fleet. The championship pulled Spain’s big boats out of a fleet that is otherwise sorted by compact platforms: the TP-52s, the Swan 42s and 45s and the Soto 52 of Classes 0 and A classify almost entirely AEROSTREAM, while LEANFORCE — the national fleet’s leading word at 28.9% — holds 12.5% of the Spanish entry, and SPARKFLEX, 14.4% of the fleet at home, is a single boat here. LEANRUN, the second family in both views, holds its ground at 27.5% against 21.1% nationally — and the Class C champion sailed one.

  • AEROSTREAM across the Spanish contingent: 13 of 40 (32.5%)
  • AEROSTREAM in the national fleet: 57 of 1,697 (3.4%)
Complete data Race group vs fleet
Race Archetypes

114 boats classified in the 43rd Copa del Rey – ORC European Championship 2025.

Archetype assignments dated 2026-08-28 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

The 43rd Copa del Rey – ORC European Championship 2025 was raced 29 July – 2 August 2025 off Palma. The classified field is sorted here by archetype as the fleet was classified at the time of the event — AEROSTREAM carries close to half of it, with LEANRUN the clear second family, AEROCORE third and the rest of the field spread across five further words — and the Spanish entries sit in every one of them.

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 54
Share 47.4%

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 25
Share 21.9%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 11
Share 9.6%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

Boats 9
Share 7.9%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 6
Share 5.3%

KEELRUN

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

Boats 5
Share 4.4%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 3
Share 2.6%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 0.9%

Classified fleet view · 1,696 of 1,697 classified · as of 2026-09-02

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 8.4% (142 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 28.9% (490 boats) — the compact-scale family whose race results carry a measured downwind advantage, a stronger showing than the fleet norm on its most differentiating leg. The lead is decisive rather than narrow: LEANRUN, the family that reads upwind-neutral in that evidence — in line with the fleet norm on that leg — is second at 21.1% (358 boats), nearly eight 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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Fleet Archetypes

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

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