Mediterranean Championship

Pan-Mediterranean ORC championship circuit

Mediterranean
439 boats 184 events 746 races 1,297 obs International event fleet · as of 2026-09-02
Kinship

The Mediterranean is one circuit, many waters.

Capri, Porto Cervo, Trieste’s Bora, Palma’s tramontana — find where your fleet fits.

 Hidden Shape

The hidden shape of the fleet.
The kinds of boat that keep appearing when every hull is measured the same way.

How the Mediterranean Championship fleet races, before the results arrive.

International event fleet · 439 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet DNA

How the Mediterranean Championship fleet is built.

439 boats in the fleet — 426 ORC-rated and 13 mapped IRC entries. 432 of the 439 carry one of the fleet's 8 performance archetypes.

The Mediterranean Championship Fleet Signature

The Mediterranean Championship fleet is AEROSTREAM-led at the head of an upwind-power spine that carries the basin's offshore signature across the Italian, Greek, Turkish, Spanish, and French home programs that feed the circuit. AEROSTREAM leads at 24.4% (107 boats) — the towering-scale, stiff-reserve upwind-power platform, the single largest archetype in the fleet and the family that carries the windward-leeward grand-prix racing when the meltemi, mistral, or libeccio fills in. AEROFORCE ranks second at 21.0% (92 boats) — the large, level-posture family raced across the basin's championship courses. AEROCORE takes third at 20.5% (90 boats) — the large, upright racer-cruiser core that anchors the fleet's big-boat band and steadies the circuit between the grand-prix programs.

  • AEROSTREAM 24.4% · 107 boats
  • AEROFORCE 21.0% · 92 boats
  • AEROCORE 20.5% · 90 boats

Dimension emphasis: Comparative Time · Crew Residual · Condition & Tactical

Farr Design anchors the designer signature at 59 boats (13.4%) — the basin's leading board, just under the 15% dominant-designer threshold — ahead of a deep field led by German Frers' lines and Jeppesen-Nielsen's X-Yachts lineage. The basin identity stays broader than any single national fleet: see the ORC World Fleet hub for the worldwide fleet that cuts across these boats.

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AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 107
Share 24.4%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 92
Share 21.0%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 90
Share 20.5%
  • First 45
  • First 40
  • Oceanis 43

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 75
Share 17.1%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 26
Share 5.9%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 23
Share 5.2%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

KEELRUN

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

strong upwind · strong reaching · strong downwind

Boats 14
Share 3.2%
  • 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 5
Share 1.1%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

Event cohort view · 13 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Selected Race Result

Channel Regatta 2025 — Classes 1 and 2

13 of 439 fleet boats competed. 4 races. Scored time-on-time on all-purpose courses of 7 to 21 nautical miles, 13–15 September 2025 — a 14-entry regatta published in two classes.

Headlines

What the numbers say at the Channel Regatta.

Comparative Time (the race-record dimension family — corrected time and rank): negative = faster than the rating expects — the boat beat its rating; positive = slower. The figures are in sec/nm (seconds per nautical mile — pace normalized by distance). All 13 of the fleet's entries carry comparison data, and the field's Comparative Time median sat at +74.92 sec/nm; the leading figure on the board rests on a single scored race.

Each crew is read against its boat's evaluated pace (the pace the certificate physics say the boat should hold). 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. Every crew figure below is shown beside its distance from the field's crew median of +88.22 sec/nm, and that centered figure carries the reading: 6 of the 13 crews sat ahead of the field's crew median, 6 sat behind it, and one sat on it.

Comparative Time — sec/nm vs ORC

sec/nm against the rating expectation · field median +74.92

1. EMILY · −145.88
2. FARRAWAY · +5.73
3. MARIA-ELECTRA · +27.32

Crew Residual — sec/nm

sec/nm against the evaluated pace · field median +88.22

1. MARIA-ELECTRA · +40.84 sec/nm · 47.4 sec/nm ahead of the field's crew median
2. FARRAWAY · +41.36 sec/nm · 46.9 sec/nm ahead of the field's crew median
3. OMANI · +61.51 sec/nm · 26.7 sec/nm ahead of the field's crew median
Stories

The Channel Regatta, read through the fleet.

MARIA-ELECTRA — Channel Regatta Champion, Class 1

MARIA-ELECTRA LEANFORCE (GRE-8793) won Class 1 — 1st in the series on 6 points, in a class of 7 boats resolved in FleetEdge's view — ahead of FARRAWAY on 8 and AVOLARE on 13. The X-362 is a Jeppesen-Nielsen design that reads as a LEANFORCE hull in the analysis nearest this regatta — one of the fleet's eight recurring design types, the compact family — and its +27.32 sec/nm Comparative Time figure sat 47.6 sec/nm inside the field median of +74.92 — third-best in the group.

MOUSMOULO — Channel Regatta Champion, Class 2

MOUSMOULO LEANFORCE (GRE-49409) won Class 2 — 1st in the series on 6 points, in a class of 6 boats resolved in FleetEdge's view — ahead of APOLLON on 8 and ARMIDA on 16. The Hallberg-Rassy 26 is one of the three smallest boats in the entry, and a LEANFORCE hull in the analysis nearest this regatta: a compact platform whose Comparative Time figure, +72.04 sec/nm, sat 2.9 sec/nm inside the field median — a class win built on consistency across the four races rather than a rating-sheet margin.

MARIA-ELECTRA: crew and hull each 47 sec/nm ahead of their fields

MARIA-ELECTRA LEANFORCE carried the strongest crew reading among the fleet's 13 entries: +40.84 sec/nm against the evaluated pace for a LEANFORCE hull — 47.4 sec/nm ahead of the field's crew median of +88.22, the widest crew-execution margin in the group. The platform reading matched it almost exactly: a +27.32 sec/nm Comparative Time figure, 47.6 sec/nm inside the field median of +74.92. Hull and crew each cleared their field by the same distance, and the Class 1 title followed from both.

LEANFORCE on the day: both class wins from the compact family

LEANFORCE hulls made up 5 of the 13 classified entries — 38.5% of the race group, against 5.9% of the 439-boat fleet — and took both classes in the conditions that prevailed across the three days of short all-purpose courses, MARIA-ELECTRA in Class 1 and MOUSMOULO in Class 2. LEANFORCE is a compact-scale family with a measured downwind advantage in race results, and the result reads as the interaction of that hull type with the breeze the regatta got; a different pressure pattern over the same 7-to-21-mile courses would have rewarded a different hull.

FARRAWAY: 69 sec/nm inside the field median across all four races

FARRAWAY AEROCORE posted the widest field-relative Comparative Time separation among the boats scored across all four races: a +5.73 sec/nm Comparative Time figure, 69.2 sec/nm inside the field median of +74.92 and 21.6 sec/nm clear of the next multi-race figure in the group. The Farr 40 finished 2nd in Class 1 on 8 points. Only EMILY's −145.88 sec/nm sits ahead of it on the board, and that figure rests on a single scored race.

Race Archetypes

13 boats classified in the Channel Regatta 2025.

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

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

Boats 5
Share 38.5%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 2
Share 15.4%

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 2
Share 15.4%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 2
Share 15.4%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 1
Share 7.7%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 7.7%

Classified fleet view · 432 of 439 classified · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet Stories

The Mediterranean Championship signature.

AEROSTREAM leads the Mediterranean basin

AEROSTREAM carries 107 of the 439-boat fleet — 24.4%, clear of the 15% leading-share threshold and the largest single-archetype share in the basin (432 of the 439 boats carry an archetype; shares are on the full fleet). The towering-scale, stiff-reserve upwind-power platform is the structural preference of the broad Mediterranean ORC ecosystem, from the Italian and Greek programs through the Turkish, Spanish, and French fleets that feed the circuit. AEROFORCE (92 boats, 21.0%), the large, level-posture family, holds second place, and AEROCORE (90 boats, 20.5%), the large, upright racer-cruiser core, takes third — an upwind-power lead backed by a broad racer-cruiser second tier.

Farr Design — the Mediterranean's leading board

Farr Design draws 59 of the 439-boat fleet — 13.4%, the largest single-designer share in the basin, sitting just under the 15% dominant-designer threshold. The lead is real but lives inside a deep designer field: German Frers' lines and Jeppesen-Nielsen's X-Yachts lineage fill the next tier, with the X-41, the TP-52, and the First 40.7 sitting at the top of the fleet's class table. The breadth under the leader is itself the Mediterranean signature — a wide-base regional ecosystem where one board leads but none defines the fleet.

Popular Classes

The boats that define Mediterranean racing.

X-41 (15)

A racer-cruiser from X-Yachts.

TP-52 (12)

The grand-prix 52-footer — the box-rule design that headlines Class A racing across the basin.

First 40.7 (11)

A Farr Design racer-cruiser — the Beneteau 40-footer that defined a decade.

Italia 11.98 (10)

A racer-cruiser from Italia Yachts.

X-35 (7)

X-Yachts' Jeppesen-Nielsen IRC 35 — sharp-edged, stiff, and fast.

Continue

Go deeper.

ORC World Fleet

The worldwide ORC competitive field that cuts across the 439-boat Mediterranean fleet — the global view above the basin.

Italy ORC Fleet

The Italian national ORC fleet that anchors the broader Mediterranean event calendar.

Greece ORC Fleet

Greek offshore racing across the Aegean — the second core national fleet feeding the basin.

Turkey ORC Fleet

Turkish offshore racing across the Aegean and Marmara — a growing ORC fleet inside the Mediterranean basin.

Rolex Middle Sea Race

The 606-nautical-mile Malta classic — the Mediterranean basin's IRC long-haul sibling to the championship circuit.

Fleet Archetypes

Eight performance archetypes across eleven measured slots — how AEROSTREAM, AEROCORE, and AEROFORCE read across every fleet, the 2026 census lens.

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