Mediterranean Championship

Pan-Mediterranean ORC championship circuit

Mediterranean
436 boats 114 events 1,137 races 1,297 obs International event fleet · as of 2026-08-20
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 · 436 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet DNA

How the Mediterranean Championship fleet is built.

436 boats in the fleet — 425 ORC-rated and 11 mapped IRC entries. 429 of the 436 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 30.7% (134 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. AEROCORE ranks second at 23.4% (102 boats) — the large, upright racer-cruiser core that anchors the fleet's big-boat band and steadies the circuit between the grand-prix programs. AEROFORCE takes third at 16.5% (72 boats) — the large, level-posture family raced across the basin's championship courses.

  • AEROSTREAM 30.7% · 134 boats
  • AEROCORE 23.4% · 102 boats
  • AEROFORCE 16.5% · 72 boats

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

Farr Design anchors the designer signature at 59 boats (13.5%) — 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.

Complete data Latest published view

AEROSTREAM

Towering scale · level posture · stiff reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

strong upwind · weak reaching · strong downwind

Boats 134
Share 30.7%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

AEROFORCE

Large scale · level posture · neutral reserve — reaching-constrained in banked race evidence.

neutral upwind · weak reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 72
Share 16.5%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROCORE

Large scale · upright posture · tender reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 102
Share 23.4%
  • First 45
  • First 40
  • Oceanis 43

LEANRUN

Large scale · upright posture — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 52
Share 11.9%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

HEFTLINE

Compact scale · level posture · stiff reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 25
Share 5.7%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

weak upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 26
Share 6.0%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

KEELRUN

Compact scale · upright posture · neutral reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 14
Share 3.2%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

SPARKFLEX

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

weak upwind · moderate reaching · weak downwind

Boats 4
Share 0.9%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

Event cohort view · 52 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Selected Race Result

ORC European Championship — Classes A, B, C

52 of 436 fleet boats competed. 24 races. Scored on PCS constructed courses and ToT weather-routed offshore legs, August 2024.

Headlines

What the numbers say at the European Championship.

The most recent event in the Mediterranean championship fleet's racing record is the Superyacht Challenge Antigua 2026, raced 6 to 8 March 2026; the archetype reading of its classified field sits in the Race Archetypes card at the foot of this panel.

Comparative Time: negative = faster than the rating expects — the boat beat its rating; positive = slower. Crew Residual: negative = the crew beat the boat's archetype-expected pace; positive = below that baseline. "Obs" are boat-event pairs; 48 of the 52 starters carry comparison data, and the field's Comparative Time median sat at +9.6 sec/nm. At the current published view the same three boats lead the Crew Residual board and the Comparative Time board by the same margins, though the two boards diverge further down the field.

Comparative Time — sec/nm vs ORC

1. PROJECT A1 · −25.08
2. DESNA · −19.43
3. DIXI 4 · −17.73

Crew Residual — sec/nm

1. PROJECT A1 · −25.08
2. DESNA · −19.43
3. DIXI 4 · −17.73

The 43rd Copa del Rey — ORC European Championship 2025 (29 July – 2 August 2025) is also profiled in this panel: the ORC European Championship 2024 stays the selected race result on this page, and the Palma standings are carried in the Published Standings section further down this panel.

Stories

The European Championship, read through the fleet.

SUGAR — ORC European Champion, Class C

SUGAR (EST-774) took Class C — 1st of 21, the deepest class at the championship, on 11 points. The Italia 9.98 F is a Polli M HEFTLINE hull — a compact, level-posture, stiff-reserve platform, reaching-neutral in banked race evidence — and it won on the scoreboard rather than the rating sheet: five race wins in eight scored races, on a −2.38 sec/nm median delta that ran just quicker than its ORC number across the constructed-course and offshore-leg mix.

OLYMPIC — ORC European Champion, Class B

OLYMPIC (EST 463) won Class B — 1st of 19 on 25 points, with two race wins in eight scored races. The X-41 Mod is a Jeppesen-Nielsen AEROSTREAM, the upwind-power family that leads the fleet, and it carried a −14.95 sec/nm median allowance edge through the championship — a champion that topped its points table while also beating its rating by one of the wider margins in the comparison group. A class win from the fleet's grand-prix upwind family, in a championship whose course mix leaned windward-leeward.

BEAU GESTE — ORC European Champion, Class A

BEAU GESTE (IVB 1997) took Class A — 1st of 7, the headline grand-prix division, on 11 points, with race wins in seven of its eight scored races. The TP-52 is a Botin-drawn AEROSTREAM — the same upwind-power family that took Class B — racing as a mapped IRC entry in FleetEdge's comparable ORC-based view, and it won the top class on near-total scoreboard control rather than a single-race surge.

PROJECT A1 runs 35 sec/nm under the field median

PROJECT A1 posted a −25.08 sec/nm median allowance delta at the championship — the best of the boats with comparison data in the race group, nearly 35 sec/nm under the field median of +9.6 and 5.6 sec/nm clear of the runner-up DESNA at −19.43. The class table read differently: the Marina 36 Sport finished eighth in Class B on corrected points. The gap between the two readings is the story — race after race the boat sailed well ahead of what its rating expects, whatever the scoreboard returned.

An AEROFORCE gap at the European Championship

The championship race group did not mirror the fleet that sent it. AEROFORCE, the fleet's third-largest family at 16.5%, all but sat this one out — 3.8% of the classified race group. Compact LEANFORCE ran the other way, more than doubling its 6.0% fleet weight to 8 of the 52 race-group places, and HEFTLINE over-indexed with it — 9.6% at the event against 5.7% fleet-wide. AEROSTREAM led on both sides — 32.7% at the event against 30.7% across the 436-boat fleet — and the shift reads as selection: the entries that made this championship skewed toward the compact, stiff mid-band families while the fleet's large upwind family largely stayed home.

Race Archetypes

52 boats classified in the ORC European Championship.

Archetypes reflect the current fleet view — no published view near this event yet.

AEROSTREAM

Towering scale · level posture · stiff reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

Boats 17
Share 32.7%

AEROCORE

Large scale · upright posture · tender reserve — measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence.

Boats 11
Share 21.2%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 8
Share 15.4%

LEANRUN

Large scale · upright posture — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 7
Share 13.5%

HEFTLINE

Compact scale · level posture · stiff reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 5
Share 9.6%

AEROFORCE

Large scale · level posture · neutral reserve — reaching-constrained in banked race evidence.

Boats 2
Share 3.8%

KEELRUN

Compact scale · upright posture · neutral reserve — reaching-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 1.9%

SPARKFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 1.9%
Published Standings

43rd Copa del Rey — ORC European Championship 2025: the leaders.

The 43rd Copa del Rey — ORC European Championship 2025 was raced out of Palma from 29 July to 2 August 2025; the class leaders below come from its published standings.

In the published standings, KAJSA III, the Swiss DK 46, finished first of 34 in Class A on 25.5 points, ahead of ELENA NOVA (GER 8042) and HYDRA (ESP-19981), and the American TP-52 Vesper won Class 0 on 16.5 points. The ORC European Championship 2024 above remains this page's selected race result, told through the fleet's archetypes; the 2025 edition waits for its own fleet reading.

Race Archetypes

Superyacht Challenge Antigua 2026 — the classified field, 6 to 8 March 2026.

The card below gives the archetype reading of the classified boats in the Superyacht Challenge Antigua field, in the FleetEdge analysis published nearest the event — the profile of that superyacht field, not a distribution of the Mediterranean championship fleet; the fleet picture stays in Fleet DNA.

Archetype assignments dated 2026-08-20 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

AEROFORCE

Large scale · level posture · neutral reserve — reaching-constrained in banked race evidence.

Boats 8
Share 100.0%

Classified fleet view · 429 of 436 classified · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet Stories

The Mediterranean Championship signature.

AEROSTREAM leads the Mediterranean basin

AEROSTREAM carries 134 of the 436-boat fleet — 30.7%, clear of the 15% leading-share threshold and the largest single-archetype share in the basin (429 of the 436 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. AEROCORE (102 boats, 23.4%), the large, upright racer-cruiser core, holds second place, and AEROFORCE (72 boats, 16.5%), the large, level-posture family, 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 436-boat fleet — 13.5%, 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 436-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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