Switzerland

168 boats. GLIDEFORM and IRONWIND co-lead at 27.9% each — a distinctive twin-anchor lake-racing signature on FleetEdge.

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A twin-anchored Alpine-lake fleet — GLIDEFORM and IRONWIND co-lead at 27.9% each.

Switzerland's 168-boat fleet — 161 ORC-rated plus 7 mapped IRC entries — carries a distinctive twin-anchor lake-racing signature: GLIDEFORM and IRONWIND share the lead at 27.9% each (46 boats apiece) — the low-drag smooth-mode flow specialist paired with the stiff, stable-drive platform — a co-dominant pairing no other Atlantic or Mediterranean fleet matches at this concentration.

168
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161
ORC-rated
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European title 2025
Domestic competitive fleet · as of 2026-06-21

ORC Authority: Swiss Sailing · Swiss Rating Office

Swiss Sailing and the Swiss Rating Office govern 168 SUI/CHE-flagged hulls in the FleetEdge fleet — 161 ORC-rated boats plus 7 mapped IRC entries, a near-pure-ORC national fleet shaped by light-wind Alpine-lake racing first, offshore racing second. Lac Léman, Lake Zürich and Lake Constance are the home waters; the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and European championship venues are the away circuit. The national fleet does not dominate any one event on participation, but it does carry championship firepower at the grand-prix end — and its archetype signature is unlike any other landlocked or coastal fleet on FleetEdge because the lake conditions select for hull characteristics no offshore venue rewards in the same way.

The twin-anchor signal is the Alpine-lake smooth-mode preference paired with championship-platform stiffness. GLIDEFORM and IRONWIND co-lead at 27.9% each (46 boats apiece, on the 165 classified Swiss boats). GLIDEFORM is the low-drag hull with efficient flow and reaching-angle efficiency that carries VMG through the light patches and transitions that shape Lac Léman's evening Bise and the Lake Zürich thermals; IRONWIND is the stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior that carries Swiss programs onto Mediterranean and European championship water. AEROBLADE rounds the top three at 12.1% (20 boats), the refined-rig platform with sharp heel sensitivity, and STORMLINE follows at 10.9% — the rough-water specialist Swiss owners reach for when the away circuit calls for chop tolerance. At the drawing-board level, Felci U leads at 8.9% (15 boats) — Felci's Italian-school lake-and-Mediterranean range the most-represented design voice in the fleet. The archetype concentration is a long-running structural preference read directly from the fleet composition.

The 2026 Swiss forward path runs the Alpine-lake championship circuit first, with the ESSE 850 one-design, the J/Boats horizontal fleet, and Xp-33 racer-cruiser carrying Lac Léman, Zürich and Constance club racing through the season, and KAJSA III's Copa del Rey defense the international title target the country has already proven it can win. From the lakes to the Mediterranean, in that order.

At a glance

Switzerland — structural profile.

Scope
168 boats
161 ORC-rated · 7 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. GLIDEFORM — 46 boats (27.4%)
  2. IRONWIND — 46 boats (27.4%)
  3. AEROBLADE — 20 boats (11.9%)
Eleven canonical performance archetypes cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Johnstone R
15 boats (8.9%) — 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 2026-06-21
Hidden Shape

The shape of the Swiss fleet.

168 Swiss boats across 9 archetypes — here's how they cluster, and what the collective signature reveals about Alpine-lake racing and Mediterranean grand-prix campaigns.

The Swiss ORC Fleet Signature

Switzerland's fleet is a twin-anchored Alpine-lake collective — GLIDEFORM and IRONWIND co-lead at 27.9% each. GLIDEFORM shares the lead at 27.9% — the low-drag smooth-mode flow specialist with reaching-angle efficiency, the signature of Lac Léman, Lake Zürich and Lake Constance light-air racing. IRONWIND matches it at 27.9%, the stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior that carries Swiss offshore programs into Mediterranean and European championship water. AEROBLADE rounds the top three at 12.1%, the refined-rig platform with sharp heel sensitivity and rapid trim response when sailed flat. Together the top three account for 67.9% of the 168-boat fleet — a twin-anchor lake-racing signature read directly off the hulls Swiss owners choose, with the European championship grand-prix tier living alongside it. In 2025 KAJSA III (DK 46) won Class A at the 43rd Copa del Rey — Switzerland's only European championship class title of the season, carried back to the lakes from Palma.

  • GLIDEFORM 27.4% · 46 boats
  • IRONWIND 27.4% · 46 boats
  • AEROBLADE 11.9% · 20 boats

Dimension emphasis: Hull Efficiency · Comp & Time · Crew Effectiveness

Felci U leads the drawing board at 8.9% (15 boats) — Felci's Italian-school lake-and-Mediterranean range the most-represented design voice in the fleet. In 2026 the Swiss forward path runs lake championship first and KAJSA III's Copa del Rey Class A defense second — a twin-anchored national fleet on Lac Léman, Zürich and Constance, with the European championship signature carried into the Mediterranean when the lakes release.

Complete data Latest published view

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull with strong downwind bias through efficient waterline-to-beam ratios.

weak upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 46
Share 27.4%
  • J/109
  • Dehler 38
  • Italia 11

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 46
Share 27.4%
  • J/122
  • XP-44
  • Swan 45

AEROBLADE

Refined-rig platform with sharp heel sensitivity and rapid trim response when sailed flat.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 20
Share 11.9%
  • Class 40
  • IMOCA derivatives
  • Pogo 30

STORMLINE

Rough-water specialist with strong reaching power and chop tolerance.

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 18
Share 10.7%
  • J/111
  • J/121
  • Fast 40+

AEROMAX

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

strong upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 14
Share 8.3%
  • TP52
  • GP42
  • Melges IC37

KEELFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 8
Share 4.8%
  • First 30
  • X-35
  • J/35

DEEPFRAME

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 6
Share 3.6%
  • Swan 60
  • Nautor custom
  • ClubSwan 50

GRAVITYRUN

Momentum-carrying hull that builds and holds speed through the run.

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 4
Share 2.4%
  • Swan 47
  • C&C 41
  • Sigma 38

STEELFORM

Compact-rig stiff-platform with the fleet's lowest race-to-race variance.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 3
Share 1.8%
  • J/70
  • Farr 280
  • SB20
What we saw

A twin-anchored fleet read — and a Palma race group that did not match it.

Switzerland's 168-boat fleet carries GLIDEFORM and IRONWIND co-leading at 27.9% each — the smooth-mode flow specialist with reaching-angle efficiency, paired with the stiff stable-drive platform, that anchors the Alpine-lake-first read. Two Swiss boats raced the 43rd Copa del Rey ORC European Championship 2025 on Palma Bay against a 114-boat international field, and KAJSA III came home with Class A — the country's only European championship class title of the season, carried back to Lake Constance on a Botin-designed DK 46. Four insights from the Swiss lake-racing fleet and a Mediterranean grand-prix week that did not match its home-water bias.

Pre-race window · Archetype-Conditions

Swiss lake light wind is where GLIDEFORM was built to live.

The 2026 Swiss season opens on Lake Geneva, Lake Zürich and Lake Constance with the club championship circuit and the ESSE 850 one-design fleet, and runs through the summer into KAJSA III's Copa del Rey Class A defense in the Mediterranean. Swiss lake conditions are unlike any other ORC venue in the FleetEdge map — variable thermals, light patches, shifting pressure, transitions that punish power boats and reward patience. GLIDEFORM's 27.9% density co-leads the Swiss fleet, and the low-drag smooth-mode geometry with reaching-angle efficiency is the hull philosophy built for exactly that pressure pattern. When a Swiss boat crosses the finish on Lake Zürich ahead of the fleet, it is usually because the GLIDEFORM signature held light-air VMG through a patch the competition dropped into. Pre-race speculation — actual conditions and crew execution will arbitrate.

  • SUI GLIDEFORM density: 27.9% · co-leads · 168-boat fleet
  • Twin-anchored with IRONWIND at 27.9% in the national mix
Pre-race context Weather & design profile (historical)
Championship Citation

KAJSA III carried the DK 46 to Class A at the 43rd Copa del Rey.

KAJSA III (SUI-2012, DK 46, KEELFLEX) finished 1st of 34 in Class A with 25.5 points at the 43rd Copa del Rey ORC European Championship 2025 — the country's only European championship class title of the regatta. A Botin-designed KEELFLEX DK 46 in a 114-boat international field, converting 40 scored races on the Palma breeze into the Class A trophy and holding off the German runner-up (GER-8042) and the Spanish third (ESP-19981) to finish the week with a clean line into the national fleet's only trophy. The KEELFLEX archetype is a narrow-stability-window grand-prix platform that rewards crew discipline on trim and balance across every race, and KAJSA III delivered that discipline for the 40-race stretch that earned the class title.

  • 1st of 34 · Class A, 25.5 points
  • Podium: SUI-GER-ESP · KEELFLEX DK 46
Complete data 43rd Copa del Rey 2025
Multi-Dimension Presence

KAJSA III led the Swiss entries on Comp Time, Crew Effectiveness, and Hull Efficiency at the same regatta.

KAJSA III posted 1st of 2 among the Swiss entries on Comparative Time at 18.75 sec/nm vs ORC (25.96 ahead of MUSICA), 1st on Crew Effectiveness at 11.37 sec/nm residual (45.14 ahead), and 1st on Hull Efficiency Index at 0.477 (0.151 ahead of MUSICA at 0.326). The Class A European champion was also the Swiss leader on every corrected-time dimension and on hull efficiency — a three-family multi-dimension presence in the conditions that prevailed at Palma. MUSICA's higher raw VMG numbers (7.03 kn upwind, 8.50 kn downwind) came from the TP 52 platform and its Class 0 scale, not from better allowance conversion; on the 40-race week, the DK 46 converted physics into a trophy and the TP 52 did not. A rare full-stack result from a 2-boat national group.

  • Comp Time: 18.75 sec/nm (1st of 2) · Crew Eff 11.37 (1st)
  • Hull Eff: 0.477 (1st) · three-family full-stack
Complete data 43rd Copa del Rey 2025 · SUI entries
Fleet vs Race Composition Shift

The Swiss boats that traveled to Palma were not the Swiss fleet.

Switzerland's 168-boat national fleet runs GLIDEFORM 27.9% / IRONWIND 27.9% / AEROBLADE 12.1% — the twin-anchored Alpine-lake-first signature of the full SUI/CHE fleet. The 2 Swiss boats that traveled to the 43rd Copa del Rey were both KEELFLEX-class grand-prix platforms (KAJSA III DK 46 and MUSICA TP 52) — a 100% KEELFLEX traveling group where KEELFLEX sits below 5% in the national mix. The Palma delegation is not a cross-section of the Swiss fleet; it is a narrow slice of the grand-prix top, the layer where international championship programs live. GLIDEFORM, the archetype that co-anchors the national fleet at better than one in four classified boats, was not represented at Palma — because the GLIDEFORM tier lives on the lakes, and the grand-prix tier travels. When the European championship result comes home, read it as a grand-prix result from a championship program, not a signature of Swiss lake racing as a whole.

  • Fleet lead: GLIDEFORM 27.9%
  • Race group: KEELFLEX 100% · 2 of 2 entries
Complete data Race group vs fleet
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