Sweden

Baltic fleet character. Efficiency-driven design.

Kinship

Every fleet has a fingerprint.

From the Solent’s tide-lines to the Aegean Meltemia — find your waters.

 Hidden Shape

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

How every Swedish boat clusters, before the results arrive.
Kinship

The archipelago fleet.

Sweden's ORC fleet races the Baltic and Stockholm archipelago — an AEROSTREAM-led Nordic collective whose racing was validated at the top of world competition in 2025: RAN took the world-championship Class A title at the Garmin ORC Worlds in Tallinn. A Jeppesen-Nielsen design backbone runs through the fleet's X-Yachts families, with 2026's ORC European Championship at Klaipeda now sailed on the opposite Baltic shore in August.

104
boats
29
events
344
races
National fleet view · as of 2026-08-20

ORC Authority: KSSS

The Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet (KSSS) governs a fleet that races in conditions where efficiency separates the field. Stockholm's archipelago produces short, tactical races; the ÅF Offshore Race and Gotland Runt demand distance endurance. One hundred four boats, drawn from a tradition where X-Yachts, Arcona, and IF-boats define the fleet, and where KSSS is among the world's oldest yacht clubs.

AEROSTREAM leads the Swedish fleet at 18.3% (19 boats) — towering-scale, level-posture platforms with a stiff righting reserve whose strong upwind drive suits the long Baltic beats. AEROCORE follows at 15.4% (16 boats) — the large, upright-posture hulls on a tender righting reserve — with HEFTLINE a boat behind at 14.4% (15 boats), the compact, level-posture hulls, stiff in reserve, reaching-neutral in banked race evidence. The fleet's racing speaks at the very top of world competition: at the Garmin ORC World Championships 2025 in Tallinn, RAN (Carkeek 40+) won the Class A world title from the front of a seven-boat top class.

Farr Design anchors the Swedish fleet at 16.3% — 17 of the fleet's boats carry the firm's lines, the largest single share on the water. Jeppesen-Nielsen — the X-Yachts office whose stiff-platform engineering runs through the Swedish fleet's X-332, X-35, X-37, X-41, X-50, X-55, and XP families — and Johnstone designs hold the next-largest shares. In 2026, this fleet's key Baltic anchor was the ORC European Championship at Klaipeda (August 7–15) — the regional summer championship on the Lithuanian Baltic coast, where Swedish boats regularly travel in force alongside Danish, German, and Estonian entries.

National fleet view · 104 boats · as of 2026-08-20

At a glance

Sweden — structural profile.

Scope
104 boats
90 ORC-rated · 14 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. AEROSTREAM — 19 boats (18.3%)
  2. AEROCORE — 16 boats (15.4%)
  3. HEFTLINE — 15 boats (14.4%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Farr Design
17 boats (16.3%) — 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
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Swedish fleet.

104 Swedish boats with AEROSTREAM leading at 18.3% — here's how they cluster, and what the collective signature reveals about Nordic offshore racing.

The Swedish ORC Fleet Signature

Sweden's fleet is an AEROSTREAM-led Baltic collective with an X-Yachts structural thread running through it. AEROSTREAM leads at 18.3% (19 boats) — towering-scale, level-posture platforms with a stiff righting reserve, the long-beat character the open Baltic rewards. AEROCORE sits second at 15.4% (16 boats) — the large, upright-posture hulls on a tender righting reserve — with HEFTLINE close behind at 14.4% (15 boats), the compact, level-posture hulls, stiff in reserve, reaching-neutral in banked race evidence. The X-Yachts design office's imprint runs through the fleet's X-332, X-35, X-37, X-41, X-50, X-55, and XP families, the structural fingerprint of Swedish offshore.

  • AEROSTREAM 18.3% · 19 boats
  • AEROCORE 15.4% · 16 boats
  • HEFTLINE 14.4% · 15 boats

Dimension emphasis: Sail Performance · Hull Efficiency

Sweden's RAN won the Class A world-championship title at the Garmin ORC Worlds 2025 in Tallinn — first of a seven-boat top class on 12 points. See the selected result below. The fleet's 2026 Baltic anchor, the ORC European Championship at Klaipeda (August 7–15, 2026), has since raced — back on home water after the archipelago summer — and awaits its official standings here.

Complete data Latest published view

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 15
Share 14.4%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

AEROSTREAM

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

strong upwind · weak reaching · strong downwind

Boats 19
Share 18.3%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

LEANRUN

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 14
Share 13.5%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

AEROFORCE

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 12
Share 11.5%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 16
Share 15.4%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

SPARKFLEX

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

weak upwind · moderate reaching · weak downwind

Boats 7
Share 6.7%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

KEELRUN

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

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 10
Share 9.6%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

weak upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 11
Share 10.6%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

Event cohort view · 6 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Selected Race Result

Garmin ORC World Championships 2025 — Tallinn, Classes A, B & C.

6 of 104 fleet boats competed in the world-championship field. 21 races. ToT — Weather Routing and PCS — Constructed Course scoring across an offshore-plus-windward-leeward slate, 11–16 August 2025. On Comparative Time, negative is faster than the rating expects (the boat beat its rating); positive is slower.

Headlines

Who led each lens at the 2025 Worlds.

Comparative Time runs most-negative-first — negative is faster than the rating expects. Upwind VMG (12 kt) and Sail Drive Efficiency read higher-is-better, scored across the Tallinn week's comparison group.

Comparative Time

1. FORMULA X · −14.57 sec/nm
2. RAN · −10.01 sec/nm
3. EXCITER · +3.15 sec/nm
Cohort 61 boats

Upwind VMG — 12 kt

1. STOERTEBEKER · 6.49 kn
2. RAN · 6.28 kn
3. MATADOR · 6.15 kn
Cohort 61 boats

Sail Drive Efficiency

1. CHACAL · 37
2. RAN · 37
3. MATADOR · 35
Cohort 61 boats

Most recent event — Cowes Week 2026

Cowes Week, sailed 1–7 August 2026 off Cowes, Isle of Wight, is the most recent evidenced event in the Swedish fleet's published race record; later racing awaits its official standings. The race group's archetype mix — the FleetEdge analysis nearest that event — is set out in the Race Archetypes section for Cowes Week further down this panel. The boards above stay with the 2025 Worlds in Tallinn, the fleet's featured event.

Stories

What the Tallinn Worlds surfaced.

RAN AEROSTREAM — ORC World Champion, Class A

RAN (SWE 41, Carkeek 40+) won Class A at the Garmin ORC World Championships 2025 in Tallinn — first of a seven-boat top class on 12 points, three clear of the runner-up at 15. The Carrington-built platform backed the score-line on the comparison surfaces: second of 61 on Comparative Time at −10.01 sec/nm, second on upwind VMG at 6.28 kn, and joint-best sail-drive index in the field at 37.

RAN: nearly 45 sec/nm clear of the field median

The comparison group's Comparative Time median sat at +34.90 sec/nm for the Tallinn week; RAN's −10.01 put the Class A champion nearly 45 sec/nm clear of the middle of the field, second only to FORMULA X (Denmark) at −14.57, the Class B winner. Only two boats in the entire field beat their rating outright — and the Swedish flagship was one of them.

A Swedish pair in the upwind-VMG top three

Two of the three best certificate upwind-VMG figures in the field flew the Swedish flag — RAN at 6.28 kn and MATADOR AEROSTREAM (Elliott 44) at 6.15 kn, behind only STOERTEBEKER (Germany) at 6.49. MATADOR carried the paper pace to a third-best sail-drive index of 35, and six SWE entries held two of the three slots on the upwind lens.

The race field flipped the fleet's profile

Sweden's home fleet is AEROSTREAM-led — an 18.3% share of the national profile. The Tallinn race group read differently: in the FleetEdge analysis nearest the event, LEANRUN was the largest group at 15 of 61 boats (24.6%), with AEROCORE (23.0%) and AEROSTREAM (21.3%) close behind and LEANFORCE at 21.3% — while HEFTLINE, third-largest in the fleet at home, sent just 2 of the 61. A world-championship entry list is a selected field, not a mirror of any national fleet — and the six Swedish boats that traveled spread across the race group's archetype map.

Race Archetypes

61 boats classified in Garmin ORC World Championships 2025.

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

LEANRUN

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

Boats 15
Share 24.6%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 14
Share 23.0%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 13
Share 21.3%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 13
Share 21.3%

KEELRUN

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

Boats 4
Share 6.6%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 2
Share 3.3%
Race Archetypes

Cowes Week 2026, sailed 1–7 August 2026: the race group by archetype.

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

AEROCORE

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

Boats 3
Share 20.0%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 4
Share 26.7%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 3
Share 20.0%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

LEANRUN

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

Boats 2
Share 13.3%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 6.7%

Classified fleet view · 104 of 104 classified · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet Stories

The Swedish fleet signature.

Farr Design anchors the Swedish fleet

Seventeen of 104 SWE-prefix boats carry Farr Design lines — a 16.3% share, the largest single design voice on the water. Jeppesen-Nielsen — the X-Yachts design office running through the X-332, X-35, X-37, X-41, X-50, X-55, and XP families that thread the national fleet — and Johnstone designs hold the next-largest shares. One board leads a fleet that still spreads its loyalties wide.

The AEROSTREAM lean

AEROSTREAM is the largest archetype in the Swedish fleet — it carries 19 of 104 SWE-prefix boats, an 18.3% share. These are towering-scale, level-posture platforms with a stiff righting reserve and strong designed upwind drive. The lean is real but narrow: AEROCORE sits three boats behind at 15.4% (16 boats), with HEFTLINE one further back at 14.4% (15 boats) — a close-run top of the table rather than a single runaway type.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Swedish racing.

Farr 30 (3)

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X-41 (3)

A racer-cruiser from X-Yachts.

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