Sweden

Baltic fleet character. 93 boats. Efficiency-driven design.

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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.
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The archipelago fleet.

Sweden's ORC fleet races the Baltic and Stockholm archipelago — an AEROBLADE-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.

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National fleet view · as of 2026-07-10

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-three 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.

AEROBLADE leads the Swedish fleet at 19.4% — 18 of 93 boats — light, agile platforms optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed, precision tools for the archipelago's short courses. AEROMAX follows at 17.2% (16 boats) — power-efficiency hybrids with strong upwind drive that suit the long Baltic beats — and DEEPFRAME holds 14.0% (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.

Farr Design is the most-common designer at 12.9% — 12 of 93 boats carry the firm's lines, the largest single share in a fleet no board dominates. 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 — follows at 11.8% (11 boats), with Johnstone designs at 6.5%. 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.

National fleet view · 93 boats · as of 2026-07-10

At a glance

Sweden — structural profile.

Scope
93 boats
81 ORC-rated · 12 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. AEROBLADE — 18 boats (19.4%)
  2. AEROMAX — 16 boats (17.2%)
  3. DEEPFRAME — 13 boats (14.0%)
Eleven canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Farr Yacht Design
12 boats (12.9%) — 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 2026-07-10
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Swedish fleet.

93 Swedish boats with AEROBLADE leading at 19.4% — 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 AEROBLADE-led Baltic collective with an X-Yachts structural thread running through it. AEROBLADE leads at 19.4% (18 boats) — light, agile platforms optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed, the precision-trim form of the Stockholm archipelago. AEROMAX follows at 17.2% (16 boats) — power-efficiency hybrids with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement, the long-beat character the open Baltic rewards — and DEEPFRAME holds 14.0% (13 boats), deep-hull efficiency on stiff platforms, with GLIDEFORM at 11.8% (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.

  • AEROBLADE 19.4% · 18 boats
  • AEROMAX 17.2% · 16 boats
  • DEEPFRAME 14.0% · 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

Upwind-power specialist with the fleet's strongest rig-driven VMG.

strong upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 16
Share 17.2%
  • First 40.7
  • First 40
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROBLADE

High-efficiency rig with sharp heel sensitivity and rapid trim response.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 18
Share 19.4%
  • TP-52
  • Farr 40
  • XP-44

DEEPFRAME

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 13
Share 14.0%
  • J-109
  • First 36
  • J-120

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull delivering smooth, efficient downwind acceleration.

weak upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 11
Share 11.8%
  • J-105
  • J-99
  • Farr 30

STORMLINE

High-power, heel-sensitive platform with explosive potential when sailed flat.

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 7
Share 7.5%
  • Comfortina 32
  • Fenix
  • Aphrodite 101

KEELFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 6
Share 6.5%
  • First 31.7
  • Express
  • First 31.7 LR

GRAVITYRUN

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 5
Share 5.4%
  • First 36.7
  • First 34.7
  • X-332

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 3
Share 3.2%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • Melges 24 OD

STEELCORE

Central, stiff rigid-platform hull — stability-positive, hull-form-dominant, low heel-sensitivity.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 7
Share 7.5%
  • Sunfast 37
  • Dufour 40
  • Grand Soleil 37 BC

STEELFORM

Compact-rig, rigid platform delivering consistent, low-variance results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 5
Share 5.4%
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • Dufour 41 Performance
  • Hanse 400 E

HEADFORCE

Upwind-biased pressure boat driving compact rigs through higher-drag hull forms.

strong upwind · weak reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 2
Share 2.2%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Miura
  • Elan 333

Event cohort view · 6 boats · as of 2026-07-10

Selected Race Result

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

6 of 93 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 Residual, 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 Residual

1. RAN · −31.73 sec/nm
2. FORMULA X · −25.45 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 Residual at −31.73 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 Residual at −31.73 sec/nm, second on Comparative Time at −9.71 sec/nm, and top-three 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 Residual at −31.73 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

61 boats classified in Garmin ORC World Championships 2025.

Archetypes as published 2026-07-10 — the FleetEdge view nearest this event.

AEROMAX

Upwind-power specialist with the fleet's strongest rig-driven VMG.

Boats 24
Share 39.3%

DEEPFRAME

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

Boats 11
Share 18.0%

AEROBLADE

High-efficiency rig with sharp heel sensitivity and rapid trim response.

Boats 10
Share 16.4%

STORMLINE

High-power, heel-sensitive platform with explosive potential when sailed flat.

Boats 6
Share 9.8%

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull delivering smooth, efficient downwind acceleration.

Boats 4
Share 6.6%

KEELFLEX

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

Boats 2
Share 3.3%

HEADFORCE

Upwind-biased pressure boat driving compact rigs through higher-drag hull forms.

Boats 1
Share 1.6%

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

Boats 1
Share 1.6%

BALANCECORE

A balance-sensitive, stability-positive design with a wide, forgiving performance envelope.

Boats 1
Share 1.6%

STEELFORM

Compact-rig, rigid platform delivering consistent, low-variance results.

Boats 1
Share 1.6%

Classified fleet view · 93 of 93 classified · as of 2026-07-10

Fleet Stories

The Swedish fleet signature.

Farr Design — Sweden's most-common designer

In a fleet split across Farr Design, Jeppesen-Nielsen, and Johnstone lines, Farr Design carries the largest single share: 12 of 93 SWE-prefix boats, 12.9% of the fleet. 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 — follows at 11.8% (11 boats), with Johnstone designs at 6.5%. No single board dominates Swedish offshore — but the largest single voice belongs to Farr Design.

The AEROBLADE lean

AEROBLADE is the largest archetype in the Swedish fleet — 18 of 93 SWE-prefix boats, 19.4% of the fleet. These are light, agile platforms optimized for quick acceleration and flat-water speed, precision tools for the short, tactical archipelago slate. AEROMAX follows at 17.2% (16 boats) — power-efficiency hybrids with strong upwind drive, a fit for the long beats of the open Baltic — with DEEPFRAME at 14.0% (13 boats), so the Swedish design preference reads as two leading convictions 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.

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