Baltic Offshore

Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, and the Baltic states — the largest multi-national regional fleet on FleetEdge.

Norway Finland Estonia Sweden Latvia Lithuania Germany Denmark
1,814 boats 193 events 716 races 1,703 obs International event fleet · as of 2026-09-02
Kinship

The Norwegian-Finnish circuit at the core.

944 Norwegian and 352 Finnish boats — 71.5% of the fleet — carry a circuit that reaches Estonia, Sweden, and the southern Baltic states.

 Hidden Shape

LEANFORCE leads the Baltic at 25.4% of the roster, with LEANRUN and SPARKFLEX behind it.
The compact, balanced hull set of a production-racer sea.

Compact reach-tuned hulls take a quarter of the fleet on their own, ahead of the large-scale downwind all-rounders of LEANRUN and the minimal-scale one-designs of SPARKFLEX — a clear head over a long, evenly-packed tail.
Character

The largest multi-national fleet on FleetEdge. Norwegian-led, Finnish-anchored, production-racer in character.

1,814 boats sit inside the Baltic offshore fleet — the largest multi-national regional fleet on FleetEdge. The fleet spans Norway, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, and Denmark, but its center of gravity is unambiguously Norwegian-Finnish. Norway and Finland carry the bulk of the roster — 944 and 352 boats, 71.5% of the fleet between them — with Estonia (119 boats) and Sweden (104) the next-largest delegations and the southern Baltic states clustered around them. The fleet is unevenly distributed by country: it is a Norwegian-Finnish offshore circuit with smaller delegations from the Baltic states clustered around it.

The archetype signature is broad but clearly headed — LEANFORCE takes a quarter of the roster on its own, with LEANRUN and SPARKFLEX behind it. LEANFORCE leads at 25.4% (461 boats), the compact hulls that keep driving when the Baltic chop builds. LEANRUN follows at 20.7% (376 boats), the large-scale, upright-posture all-rounders — First 36.7s and J-109s — that hold their own downwind through a Nordic racing day, in line with the fleet norm in race results. SPARKFLEX sits third at 14.3% (259 boats), the minimal-scale, tender-reserve platforms — J-80s, J-24s, and J-70s — that are quick when sailed level and reward Nordic crew discipline. Together the three carry 60.5% of the Baltic roster — a structural preference for modest scale and balance over raw power, fitting a club-anchored circuit of production racer-cruisers.

The hull ecology is production racer-cruiser, not maxi or grand-prix. First 36.7, Express, First 40.7, X-35 OD, and First 31.7 LR fill the popular-classes list. Beneteau First-series, X-Yachts one-designs, and J-Boats production racers dominate the entry lists at Helsinki, Turku, Tallinn, and along the Norwegian coast. The boats are smaller and more accessible than the championship-grade roster that fills Sorrento or Cowes; the racing is club-anchored, seasonally compressed, and structurally optimized for a sea that delivers sustained Baltic breeze with short-period chop and the occasional light-air evening. The championship grids draw on this fleet — 61 Baltic boats reached the comparative race group at the 2025 Worlds in Tallinn — but the Baltic's defining scale is domestic: a circuit bigger than any other multi-national regional fleet FleetEdge tracks.

International event fleet · 1,814 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet DNA

How the Baltic Offshore fleet is built.

1,814 boats in the fleet. The classified boats are attributed across the eight archetypes of the 2026 census — eleven measured slots — with 3 unclassified hulls held aside.

The Baltic Offshore Fleet Signature

The Baltic is a compact-hull fleet with a clear head: LEANFORCE takes a quarter of the roster on its own, and with LEANRUN and SPARKFLEX the leading tier carries more than half the fleet. LEANFORCE leads at 25.4% (461 boats) — the compact hulls that keep driving when the Baltic chop builds and the breeze holds in. LEANRUN follows at 20.7% (376 boats), the all-rounders, First 36.7s and J-109s, that the race results read as upwind-neutral through a Nordic racing day. SPARKFLEX sits third at 14.3% (259 boats): the minimal-scale, tender-reserve one-designs, the J-80s, J-24s, and J-70s that reward the crew discipline this fleet is built on. AEROCORE is close behind at 11.5% (209 boats), the large-scale hulls that read as downwind-neutral in race results, ahead of AEROFORCE at 10.4% (188 boats), the level-posture group that grinds out the upwind ladder, then AEROSTREAM at 5.7% (103 boats), HEFTLINE at 6.6% (120 boats), and KEELRUN at 5.2% (95 boats) — a long, evenly-packed tail behind a top tier that is anything but flat.

  • LEANFORCE 25.4% · 461 boats
  • LEANRUN 20.7% · 376 boats
  • SPARKFLEX 14.3% · 259 boats

Dimension emphasis: Hull & Stability · Condition & Tactical · Crew & Execution

Jeppesen-Nielsen leads the designer signature at 9.0% (163 boats), ahead of Farr Design and Judel-Vrolijk. The most-common production hulls are First 36.7, Express, First 40.7, X-35 OD, and First 31.7 LR. The featured race result of the current published data is the ORC European Championships 2026, with 34 Baltic boats in the race group.

Complete data Latest published view

The full distribution — the archetypes of the 2026 census across eleven measured slots.

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 461
Share 25.4%
  • Elan 333
  • Miura
  • Dufour 30 Classic

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 376
Share 20.7%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

SPARKFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 259
Share 14.3%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 209
Share 11.5%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 188
Share 10.4%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 120
Share 6.6%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 103
Share 5.7%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

KEELRUN

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

strong upwind · strong reaching · strong downwind

Boats 95
Share 5.2%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

The Baltic is led from the compact end and backed by breadth. LEANFORCE takes 25.4% of the fleet on its own, and with LEANRUN and SPARKFLEX the leading tier carries more than half the roster; the remaining archetypes pack into a band from 5.2% to 11.5%. The Baltic's signal is a clear head over a long, even tail — a structurally diverse domestic roster in which one compact hull family sets the pace.

Event cohort view · 34 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Selected Race Result

ORC European Championships 2026 — Classes AB and C.

34 of 1,814 Baltic-fleet boats raced the ORC European Championships, 10–15 August 2026 — nine races: an offshore opener of up to 240 nm and a short offshore of up to 48 nm under time-on-time weather-routing scoring, and seven windward–leeward races under PCS constructed-course scoring. Series standings are published in the two classes this fleet sailed, AB and C, and 33 of the 34 boats carry rating-comparison data across the nine races, so the pace boards render here beside the standings. The championship was a 35-entry regatta drawn almost wholly from the Baltic nations — among this fleet’s entries Lithuania 13, Estonia 8, Latvia 4, Germany 3, Sweden 3, Denmark 2 and Norway 1. Class AB went to DIXI 5 (Xr-41); no Class C winner is resolved in FleetEdge’s view, so that class reads here from second place down.

Headlines

Dimension leaders — the Baltic fleet’s entries at the ORC European Championships 2026 (10–15 August 2026).

Comparative time (the race-record dimension family — corrected time and rank) is read here in sec/nm (seconds per nautical mile — pace normalized by distance) against the rating: negative = faster than the rating expects (the boat beat its rating); positive = slower. Crew residual (what remains after the boat’s evaluated pace is accounted for — negative is faster, in s/nm): negative = the crew beat the boat’s archetype-expected pace; positive = below that baseline — both crew figures are measured against the evaluated pace (the pace the certificate physics say the boat should hold), and the read that separates crews is each boat’s distance from the field’s crew median, which every named row carries beside its raw figure. 33 of the 34 fleet boats carry both products at this event; 16 of the 33 scored crews sat ahead of the field’s crew median, one sat on it and 16 sat behind it. The four certificate boards read the 34 fleet boats’ own measurements.

Comparative Time — sec/nm vs rating

1. Lumi · −167.07
2. ADELE · −154.46
3. SUGAR · −151.96
Median Field · −132.19
Cohort 33 boats scored

Crew Residual — sec/nm against the evaluated pace

1. Lumi · −85.29 sec/nm · 25.36 sec/nm ahead of the field’s crew median
2. TANGO 2 · −82.86 sec/nm · 22.93 sec/nm ahead of the field’s crew median
3. SUGAR · −79.17 sec/nm · 19.24 sec/nm ahead of the field’s crew median
Median Field crew median · −59.93 sec/nm
Cohort 33 boats scored · 16 ahead of the median

Sail Drive — 0–100

1. TOJANA · 25
2. AJA & LA CALMA · 22
3. Sons of Hurricanes · 22
Cohort 34 boats

Upwind VMG (12 kt) — kn

1. Nemo Rosso · 5.91
2. PURE · 5.79
3. Clean Energy · 5.78
Cohort 34 boats

Downwind VMG (12 kt) — kn

1. Nemo Rosso · 7.43
2. Clean Energy · 7.37
3. PURE · 7.20
Cohort 34 boats

Stability (RM/Disp) — ratio

1. Nemo Rosso · 39.01
2. PURE · 32.96
3. Clean Energy · 32.30
Cohort 34 boats

Every one of the 33 scored boats finished faster than its rating expects, so the field median of −132.19 sec/nm, not zero, is the reference on the Comparative Time board. Lumi, ADELE and SUGAR read on six of the nine races; TANGO 2’s crew figure rests on three of the nine, a small sample. No Class C winner is resolved in FleetEdge’s view for this event. Source: the published ORC European Championships 2026 class series standings as carried in the current published view.

Stories

What the Europeans show for the Baltic fleet.

Championship Citation

DIXI 5 — ORC European Champion, Class AB

DIXI 5 AEROCORE (Xr-41, AEROCORE) won Class AB at the ORC European Championships 2026 with 9 points — 1st in Class AB on series points, 14 boats resolved in FleetEdge’s view, in a 35-entry regatta. The Danish X-Yachts racer reads AEROCORE at the FleetEdge analysis nearest the event — large scale, tender reserve, downwind-neutral in race results. The whole class podium stayed inside this fleet: KETURI VĖJAI AEROSTREAM (X-41 Mod, AEROSTREAM) took 2nd on 26 points and RHINO AEROCORE (Italia 11.98, AEROCORE) 3rd on 28 — two Lithuanian programs behind the Danish champion. The champion also carried a strong execution read: its crew sat 13.41 sec/nm ahead of the field’s crew median (−73.34 sec/nm against the evaluated pace), and on comparative time the boat finished 138.95 sec/nm faster than its rating expects, 6.77 sec/nm better than the field median of −132.19.

  • DIXI 5 Class AB: 1st · 9 pts · 14 boats resolved in FleetEdge’s view
  • KETURI VĖJAI 2nd · 26 pts · RHINO 3rd · 28 pts
  • Archetype: AEROCORE · Xr-41
Complete data ORC European Championships 2026
Crew-Carried

Lumi: the crew ran 25 sec/nm ahead of the field’s crew median

Lumi LEANFORCE (First 34.7, LEANFORCE) carries the strongest execution read among the fleet’s entries at the Europeans — a crew residual of −85.29 sec/nm against the evaluated pace, 25.36 sec/nm ahead of the field’s crew median of −59.93, the top of the 33-boat scored field on a full seven-record sample. The platform alone does not explain it: on comparative time the Estonian First 34.7 finished 167.07 sec/nm faster than its rating expects — 34.88 sec/nm better than the field median of −132.19 and again the top of the scored field, though on six of the nine races. Fifth in Class C on series points (41.5) beside a top-of-field execution read is the crew-versus-platform contrast in plain sight: a compact LEANFORCE hull, measured downwind advantage in race results, whose crew converted more from it than its physics pace alone would earn.

Partial data ORC European Championships 2026
Magnitude Gap

MATCHBOX: 10 sec/nm clear of the field median on the fullest sample in the field

Every one of the 33 scored fleet boats finished the Europeans faster than its rating expects — the field median sits at −132.19 sec/nm — so the gap that matters is the distance from that median, and on the fullest reads, seven of the nine races, it is MATCHBOX LEANFORCE (Mat 10.10, LEANFORCE) that carries the widest: −142.41 sec/nm, 10.23 sec/nm better than the field median. Lumi (−167.07), ADELE (−154.46) and SUGAR (−151.96) sit further out, but on six-race samples; the German Mills-designed Mat 10.10 is the boat whose margin rests on the fullest sample the field offers. A 13th place in Class C on series points (71) beside the field’s widest fully-sampled comparative margin is the reminder this championship offers: nine races under PCS and time-on-time scoring rewarded consistency, and the single-dimension pace leaders were not the trophy winners.

  • MATCHBOX: −142.41 sec/nm · 10.23 sec/nm better than the field median · seven of nine races
  • Field median: −132.19 sec/nm · 33 boats scored · all 33 faster than their rating expects
  • Archetype: LEANFORCE · Mat 10.10
Complete data ORC European Championships 2026
Composition Shift

A championship start line that left the fleet’s compact core at home

LEANFORCE leads the 1,814-boat Baltic fleet at 25.4% (461 boats), yet it carried only 11.8% of the fleet’s Europeans entries (4 of 34 classified boats), and SPARKFLEX — 14.3% of the fleet (259 boats) — sent one boat, 2.9%. The start line belonged to the large-platform families instead: LEANRUN led the race group at 26.5% (9 boats) against 20.7% at home (376 boats), AEROCORE doubled its share from 11.5% (209 boats) to 23.5% (8 boats), and AEROSTREAM — 5.7% of the fleet (103 boats) — climbed to 20.6% (7 boats), the X-41 family and the Ker-40 filling Class AB. AEROFORCE slipped from 10.4% (188 boats) to 5.9% (2 boats), HEFTLINE held near its 6.6% (120 boats) at 5.9% (2 boats), and KEELRUN fell from 5.2% (95 boats) to 2.9% (1 boat). Where the fleet’s own regattas turn out its compact and one-design core, the continental championship drew the fleet’s larger, tender-reserve platforms — the entry list is itself a read on which Baltic boats travel to a championship week of windward–leeward and offshore racing.

  • LEANFORCE: 25.4% fleet → 11.8% race (4 of 34) · SPARKFLEX: 14.3% → 2.9% (1 of 34)
  • LEANRUN: 20.7% → 26.5% · AEROCORE: 11.5% → 23.5% · AEROSTREAM: 5.7% → 20.6%
  • AEROFORCE: 10.4% → 5.9% · HEFTLINE: 6.6% → 5.9% · KEELRUN: 5.2% → 2.9%
Complete data Race group vs fleet
Race Archetypes

34 boats classified in the ORC European Championships 2026.

Archetype assignments dated 2026-09-02 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

The fleet’s 34 entries at the Europeans, raced 10–15 August 2026, sorted by archetype as the fleet was classified at the analysis nearest the event. LEANRUN holds the leading share of the race group, with AEROCORE second and AEROSTREAM third — the large-platform families ahead of the compact LEANFORCE hulls that lead the fleet at home.

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 9
Share 26.5%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 8
Share 23.5%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 7
Share 20.6%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

Boats 4
Share 11.8%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 2
Share 5.9%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 2
Share 5.9%

KEELRUN

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

Boats 1
Share 2.9%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 2.9%

Classified fleet view · 1,811 of 1,814 classified · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet Stories

The Baltic Offshore signature.

Designer Density

Jeppesen-Nielsen — the Baltic's most-common designer.

163 Jeppesen-Nielsen hulls anchor the Baltic at 9.0% of the 1,814-boat fleet — the largest single-designer share on the largest multi-national regional fleet FleetEdge tracks. The signal is distinctively Baltic. In the Baltic, the X-Yachts boards carry the largest cluster — the IMX, X-35, X-37, X-41, and Xp lines that define the Nordic production-racer ecology. Farr Design and Judel-Vrolijk follow, with Johnstone and Humphreys rounding out the upper field. No designer clears the 15% dominant threshold — this is a most-common reading on a structurally diverse fleet, where multiple Nordic and international design traditions populate the entry lists side by side.

  • Jeppesen-Nielsen: 9.0%
  • X-Yachts cluster: IMX · X-35 · X-37 · X-41 · Xp
  • Most-common band: 8%–15% · no dominant designer
Complete data FleetEdge fleet-wide data
Popular Classes

The boats that define Baltic offshore racing.

First 36.7 (30)

The Farr Design-penned Beneteau mid-size IRC weapon of the 2000s — the largest single class in the Baltic fleet, a long-running club-racer and offshore competitor across Nordic and Estonian entry lists.

Express (29)

Peter Norlin's Swedish 25-foot Albin Marine racer-cruiser — the most-common one-design on Baltic starting lines, with a tightly-managed class association anchoring Nordic short-course racing.

First 40.7 (22)

The Farr Design Beneteau 40-footer that defined a decade of Baltic racer-cruiser racing — still the most-common 40-footer on Norwegian and Finnish entry lists.

X-35 OD (20)

The Jeppesen-Nielsen X-Yachts 35 raced as a strict one-design — the canonical Nordic production grand-prix racer, foundation of the Baltic Jeppesen-Nielsen cluster.

First 31.7 LR (19)

The Long-Range First 31.7 variant by Finot from Beneteau — a club-racer with offshore tankage that fills the lower-rating end of Norwegian and Finnish offshore entries.

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ORC World Fleet

The international-travelers fleet that the Baltic feeds into — the global championship circuit, with AEROSTREAM leading the world-fleet archetype distribution.

2025 ORC World Championship — Tallinn

The Baltic fleet's featured championship result — three classes and two world titles inside the race group's published standings: RAN in Class A and FORMULA X in Class B.

Norway

The largest delegation inside the Baltic fleet — 944 boats and 52.0% of the fleet, the center of gravity of Nordic offshore racing.

Finland

The second-largest delegation — 352 boats and 19.4% of the fleet, anchored in Helsinki, Turku, and Hanko offshore programs.

Estonia

The Baltic state delegation that hosted the 2025 Worlds at Tallinn — 119 boats and the SHADOW Class C silver medal.

Fleet Archetypes

The archetype design groups of the 2026 census — drawn over eleven measured slots — that let us read the Baltic's broad LEANFORCE + LEANRUN + SPARKFLEX signature, and the case study that walks through what each archetype means at fleet scale.

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