Sweden

Baltic fleet character. 91 boats. Efficiency-driven design.

Kinship

Every fleet has a fingerprint.

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

 Hidden Shape

11 archetypes.
How this country's fleet clusters before the results arrive.

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

The archipelago fleet.

Sweden's ORC fleet races the Baltic and Stockholm archipelago — an AEROMAX-led Nordic collective whose racing was validated at the top of world competition in 2025: two Swedish boats took world-championship class titles at the Garmin ORC Worlds in Tallinn, RAN in Class A and Garmin Team Pro4u in Class C. A Jeppesen-Nielsen design backbone runs through the fleet's X-Yachts families, with 2026's ORC European Championship at Klaipeda waiting on the opposite Baltic shore in August.

91
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17
events
174
races
National fleet view · as of 2026-06-21

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. Ninety-one 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.

AEROMAX leads the Swedish fleet at 19.8% — 18 of 91 boats — the power-efficiency hybrids with strong upwind drive that suit the long Baltic beats. AEROBLADE follows close behind at 17.6% (16 boats) — light, agile platforms optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed — and DEEPFRAME holds 14.3% (13 boats). The fleet's racing speaks at the very top of world competition: at the Garmin ORC World Championships 2025 in Tallinn, two Swedish boats won class titles — RAN (Carkeek 40+) in Class A and Garmin Team Pro4u (a Farr Design one-off) in Class C — from two different ends of the archetype map.

Jeppesen-Nielsen is the most-common designer at 13.2% — 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. Farr Design follows close behind at 12.1%, with Johnstone designs at 6.6% — no single board dominates this fleet. In 2026, this fleet's key Baltic anchor is 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.

At a glance

Sweden — structural profile.

Scope
91 boats
80 ORC-rated · 11 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. AEROMAX — 18 boats (19.8%)
  2. AEROBLADE — 16 boats (17.6%)
  3. DEEPFRAME — 13 boats (14.3%)
Eleven canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Jeppesen-Nielsen
12 boats (13.2%) — 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 2026-06-21
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Swedish fleet.

91 Swedish boats with AEROMAX leading at 19.8% — 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 AEROMAX-led Baltic collective anchored by a Jeppesen-Nielsen design backbone. AEROMAX leads at 19.8% (18 boats) — power-efficiency hybrids with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement, the long-beat character the open Baltic rewards. AEROBLADE follows close at 17.6% (16 boats) — light, agile platforms optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed, the precision-trim form of the Stockholm archipelago — and DEEPFRAME holds 14.3% (13 boats), deep-hull efficiency on stiff platforms, with GLIDEFORM at 12.1% (11 boats) just behind. 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.

  • AEROMAX 19.8% · 18 boats
  • AEROBLADE 17.6% · 16 boats
  • DEEPFRAME 14.3% · 13 boats

Dimension emphasis: Sail Performance · Hull Efficiency

Two Swedish boats won world-championship class titles at the Garmin ORC Worlds 2025 in Tallinn — RAN in Class A and Garmin Team Pro4u in Class C, from two different ends of the archetype map. See the selected result below. The fleet's next Baltic anchor is the ORC European Championship at Klaipeda (August 7–15, 2026), back on home water after the archipelago summer.

Complete data Latest published view

AEROMAX

Power-efficiency hybrid with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement.

strong upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 18
Share 19.8%
  • TP52
  • GP42
  • Melges IC37

AEROBLADE

Light, agile platform optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 16
Share 17.6%
  • Class 40
  • IMOCA derivatives
  • Pogo 30

DEEPFRAME

Deep-hull efficiency paired with a stiff platform for drag-optimized flow.

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 13
Share 14.3%
  • Swan 60
  • Nautor custom
  • ClubSwan 50

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull with efficient upwind flow and moderate displacement.

weak upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 11
Share 12.1%
  • J/109
  • Dehler 38
  • Italia 11

STORMLINE

Rough-water specialist with a hull shape optimized for steep, short waves.

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 7
Share 7.7%
  • J/111
  • J/121
  • Fast 40+

KEELFLEX

Narrow stability window; fast when perfectly balanced, punishing when not.

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 6
Share 6.6%
  • First 30
  • X-35
  • J/35

GRAVITYRUN

Heavy-mode momentum boat with strong downwind power in sustained breeze.

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 5
Share 5.5%
  • Swan 47
  • C&C 41
  • Sigma 38

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 5
Share 5.5%
  • J/122
  • XP-44
  • Swan 45

STEELCORE

Platform-rigid hull with low heel sensitivity and high righting-moment stability.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 5
Share 5.5%
  • First 40
  • Bavaria C42
  • Hanse 388

STEELFORM

Heavy-displacement hull with strong directional stability.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 4
Share 4.4%
  • J/70
  • Farr 280
  • SB20

HEADFORCE

High righting moment, upwind-biased hull that powers through chop.

strong upwind · weak reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 1
Share 1.1%
  • First 34.7
  • Grand Soleil 37
  • Sun Fast 3300
Fleet Stories

The Swedish fleet signature.

Jeppesen-Nielsen — Sweden's most-common design board

In a fleet split across Jeppesen-Nielsen, Farr Design, and Johnstone lines, the X-Yachts design office carries the largest single share: 12 of 91 SWE-prefix boats, 13.2% of the classified fleet. Farr Design follows close behind at 12.1% (11 boats), with Johnstone designs at 6.6%. No single board dominates Swedish offshore — but the most-common voice is the one drawn at X-Yachts, running through the X-332, X-35, X-37, X-41, X-50, X-55, and XP families that anchor the national fleet.

The AEROMAX lean

AEROMAX is the single largest archetype in the Swedish fleet — 18 of 91 SWE-prefix boats, 19.8% of the fleet. These are power-efficiency hybrids with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement, a fit for the long beats of the open Baltic as much as for the tactical archipelago slate. AEROBLADE sits close behind at 17.6% (16 boats) and DEEPFRAME at 14.3% (13 boats), so the Swedish design preference reads as one leading conviction resting on a broad, balanced top of the table rather than a single runaway type.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Swedish racing.

X-41 (4)

A racer-cruiser from X-Yachts.

Farr 30 OD (3)

A racer-cruiser from Carroll Marine.

Selected Race Result

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

6 of 91 fleet boats competed in the 61-boat 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.

On Crew Effectiveness, negative means the crew beat the boat's archetype-expected pace (stronger execution); positive is below that baseline. Sail Drive Efficiency reads higher-is-better.

Comparative Time

1. FORMULA X · −14.57 sec/nm
2. RAN · −9.71 sec/nm
3. MABELLE II · −7.57 sec/nm
Cohort 61 boats

Crew Effectiveness

1. RAN · −31.92 sec/nm
2. FORMULA X · −25.42 sec/nm
3. MABELLE II · −21.08 sec/nm
Cohort 61 boats

Sail Drive Efficiency

1. CHACAL · 32
2. CHEYENNE · 31
3. RAN · 31
Cohort 61 boats
Stories

What the Tallinn Worlds surfaced.

RAN AEROBLADE — ORC World Champion, Class A

RAN (SWE 41, Carkeek 40+) won Class A at the Garmin ORC World Championships 2025 in Tallinn — first of an eight-boat class on 12 points, three clear of the runner-up at 15. The Carrington-built platform also led the 61-boat comparison group on Crew Effectiveness at −31.92 sec/nm and sat second on Comparative Time at −9.71 sec/nm — a class title carried on more than one surface.

GARMIN TEAM PRO4U STEELCORE — ORC World Champion, Class C

Garmin Team Pro4u (SWE 88, a Farr Design one-off) took Class C on 9 points — 10 clear of the runner-up at 19, in standings running more than 30 boats deep. In the largest class of the championship, the second Swedish trophy of the week came from a different dimensional family than the first: where RAN reads as a light, agile platform, this 10.6-meter one-off reads as a stiffer, rigid-platform hull — two routes to the same scoreboard.

Two Swedish world titles, two archetypes

Sweden sent six boats to the 61-boat Tallinn Worlds and brought home two of the three class titles — RAN in Class A and Garmin Team Pro4u in Class C. The two winners sit at different ends of the archetype map: RAN a light, agile AEROBLADE racer, Garmin Team Pro4u a rigid-platform one-off. One is a 12.6-meter Carkeek design, the other a 10.6-meter Farr Design one-off — different drawing boards, different sizes, different dimensional families, both on top of a world-championship scoreboard.

RAN: first on crew, top-three across three lenses

FleetEdge reads the Class A champion across three dimension families at the 2025 Worlds: first of 61 on Crew Effectiveness at −31.92 sec/nm, second on Comparative Time at −9.71 sec/nm, and third on Sail Drive Efficiency at 31. Against a world-championship comparison group whose Comparative Time median sat near +31 sec/nm, the title was a convergence of hull, sails, and crew work rather than a single-surface edge.

A Swedish double in the comparison top three

Two of the three best Comparative Time residuals at the 2025 Worlds belonged to Swedish boats — RAN at −9.71 sec/nm and MABELLE II AEROMAX (Grand Soleil 47) at −7.57 sec/nm — and the same pair held first and third on Crew Effectiveness at −31.92 and −21.08 sec/nm. Six SWE entries in a 61-boat field, holding two podium slots on both comparison lenses: the national fleet punched well above its share of the entry list.

Race Archetypes

59 boats classified in Garmin ORC World Championships 2025.

Archetypes as published 2026-06-08 — the FleetEdge view nearest this event.

DEEPFRAME

Deep-hull efficiency paired with a stiff platform for drag-optimized flow.

Boats 19
Share 32.2%

AEROBLADE

Light, agile platform optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed.

Boats 14
Share 23.7%

STORMLINE

Rough-water specialist with a hull shape optimized for steep, short waves.

Boats 10
Share 16.9%

GRAVITYRUN

Heavy-mode momentum boat with strong downwind power in sustained breeze.

Boats 5
Share 8.5%

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull with efficient upwind flow and moderate displacement.

Boats 4
Share 6.8%

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

Boats 3
Share 5.1%

HEADFORCE

High righting moment, upwind-biased hull that powers through chop.

Boats 2
Share 3.4%

AEROMAX

Power-efficiency hybrid with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement.

Boats 1
Share 1.7%

STEELFORM

Heavy-displacement hull with strong directional stability.

Boats 1
Share 1.7%
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Go deeper.

ORC Worlds 2025 — Tallinn

The Baltic world championship where Sweden took two of the three class titles — RAN in Class A and Garmin Team Pro4u in Class C.

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