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Baltic fleet character. 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

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 — a LEANRUN-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
32
events
175
races
National fleet view · as of 2026-09-02

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.

LEANRUN leads the Swedish fleet at 17.3% (18 boats) — hulls that sit upwind-neutral in race results, the core of the Large-Platform family. HEFTLINE follows at 16.3% (17 boats) — the compact, level-posture hulls, stiff in reserve, carrying a measured upwind advantage in race results — with AEROFORCE a boat behind at 15.4% (16 boats), the large-scale, level-posture platforms on a neutral righting reserve with a measured reaching advantage in the same 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 2026-09-02

At a glance

Sweden — structural profile.

Scope
104 boats
90 ORC-rated · 14 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANRUN — 18 boats (17.3%)
  2. HEFTLINE — 17 boats (16.3%)
  3. AEROFORCE — 16 boats (15.4%)
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
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 2026-09-02
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Swedish fleet.

104 Swedish boats with LEANRUN leading at 17.3% — here's how they cluster, and what the collective signature reveals about Nordic offshore racing.

The Swedish ORC Fleet Signature

Sweden's fleet is a LEANRUN-led Baltic collective with an X-Yachts structural thread running through it. LEANRUN leads at 17.3% (18 boats) — hulls that sit upwind-neutral in race results, the core of the Large-Platform family. HEFTLINE sits second at 16.3% (17 boats) — the compact, level-posture hulls, stiff in reserve, carrying a measured upwind advantage in race results — with AEROFORCE close behind at 15.4% (16 boats), the large-scale, level-posture platforms on a neutral righting reserve carrying a measured reaching advantage in the same 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.

  • LEANRUN 17.3% · 18 boats
  • HEFTLINE 16.3% · 17 boats
  • AEROFORCE 15.4% · 16 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

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 18
Share 17.3%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 17
Share 16.3%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 16
Share 15.4%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 14
Share 13.5%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 12
Share 11.5%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

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

KEELRUN

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

strong upwind · strong reaching · strong downwind

Boats 9
Share 8.7%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

SPARKFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

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

Event cohort view · 10 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Selected Race Result

SM i havskappsegling, ORCi — the Swedish ORCi Championship 2026.

10 of 104 fleet boats raced the national ORCi championship, 12–14 June 2026. 5 races — an offshore leg, then four windward-leeward races — under ToT — Weather Routing and PCS — Constructed Course scoring. 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 2026 championship.

Comparative Time reads negative = faster than the rating expects (the boat beat its rating); positive = slower. Every boat in this championship group finished positive on the published week, so the board ranks the boats that held closest to rated pace. Upwind VMG (12 kt) and Sail Drive Efficiency read higher-is-better across the race group.

Comparative Time

1. Nemo Rosso · +18.90 sec/nm
2. Heist · +19.06 sec/nm
3. Andiamo · +31.28 sec/nm
Cohort 10 boats

Upwind VMG — 12 kt

1. MATADOR · 6.15 kn
2. Heist · 6.07 kn
3. Nemo Rosso · 5.91 kn
Cohort 11 boats

Sail Drive Efficiency

1. THE TROOPER · 26
2. Andiamo · 24
3. YRSA · 21
Cohort 11 boats

Most recent evidenced event — ORC European Championships

The ORC European Championships, raced 10–15 August 2026, is the most recent evidenced event in the Swedish fleet's published race record; later racing awaits its published evidence. The race group's archetype mix — the FleetEdge analysis nearest that event — is the Race Archetypes grid for the European Championships at the foot of this panel. The boards above stay with the featured event, the June national championship.

Stories

What the national championship surfaced.

Blur: 197 seconds a mile ahead of its evaluated pace

Crew Residual reads negative = the crew beat the boat's archetype-expected pace (stronger execution); positive = below that baseline. Blur (J-99; HEFTLINE in the FleetEdge analysis nearest the event) carried the deepest crew residual in the Swedish race group at the championship — −197.1 sec/nm, 197 seconds a mile ahead of the pace its archetype baseline evaluates for it, 34.9 sec/nm beyond the group's median crew reading and top of the ten-boat crew field. The platform tells a quieter story: on Comparative Time the boat sat mid-field, 3.2 sec/nm inside the group median at the 56th percentile, so the margin was the crew's rather than the hull's. Blur finished 2nd in the published series standings (Class 1) of the 12-entry championship.

Nemo Rosso: 16.7 sec/nm inside the field median

Every boat in the championship comparison group finished slower than its rating expected on the published week, so the Comparative Time story is who held closest to rated pace. Nemo Rosso (Ker-40; AEROSTREAM in the FleetEdge analysis nearest the event) led the ten-boat group, 16.7 sec/nm inside the group median and top of the field, with Heist (Ker-40 Custom Keel) just 0.16 sec/nm back in second and Andiamo (Farr 30 OD) third, 4.3 sec/nm inside the median.

Two one-design clusters split the lenses

The Ker pair — Heist and Nemo Rosso — took the top two Comparative Time slots and two of the three best certificate upwind-VMG figures (6.07 and 5.91 kn behind MATADOR's 6.15). The sail-drive lens flipped the order: there the Farr 30 OD pair led the board, THE TROOPER at 26 and Andiamo at 24, with YRSA (Arcona 340) next at 21 — two class clusters holding the head of different boards at the same event.

The title fleet flipped the national order

Sweden's home fleet is LEANRUN-led — a 17.3% share of the national profile, with AEROSTREAM fourth at 13.5%. The championship race group inverted that: in the FleetEdge analysis nearest the event, AEROSTREAM — towering scale, level posture, stiff reserve, downwind-neutral in race results — carried 5 of the 11 classified boats (45.5%), with HEFTLINE at 27.3% against 16.3% at home, while LEANRUN, the home leader, sent 1 of the 11. A national title entry is a selected field, not a mirror of the fleet.

Race Archetypes

11 boats classified in SM i havskappsegling, ORCi — raced 12–14 June 2026.

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

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 5
Share 45.5%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 3
Share 27.3%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 1
Share 9.1%

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 1
Share 9.1%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 1
Share 9.1%

Classified fleet view · 104 of 104 classified · as of 2026-09-02

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 LEANRUN lean

LEANRUN is the largest archetype in the Swedish fleet — it carries 18 of 104 SWE-prefix boats, a 17.3% share. These are Large-Platform-family hulls that sit upwind-neutral in race results. The lean is real but narrow: HEFTLINE sits one boat behind at 16.3% (17 boats), with AEROFORCE one further back at 15.4% (16 boats) — a close-run top of the table rather than a single runaway type.

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