Netherlands ORC Fleet

Dutch ORC domestic racing

Zeeland Delta Markermeer North Sea
504 boats 72 events 471 races 651 obs Domestic competitive fleet · as of 2026-11-03
Kinship

The Netherlands’ waters hold their own story.

The Delta, the inland seas and the North Sea coast — find the waters of Dutch racing.

 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 boat in the Netherlands ORC fleet clusters, before the results arrive.
Character

LEANRUN leads a fleet that races from the Zeeland Delta to the North Sea.

FleetEdge counts 504 boats in the Netherlands ORC fleet. A boat belongs to it when its certificate nation is the Netherlands, when it raced one of the eight admitted Dutch events listed below, or when the published view serves it as a member of the fleet. 463 boats join by their Dutch certificates and 41 more by their racing at the admitted events. 476 are ORC-rated and 28 are mapped IRC (an IRC entry mapped into FleetEdge's ORC-based physics view) entries.

LEANRUN leads the count order at 24.6% of the fleet (124 boats), LEANFORCE follows at 16.1% (81 boats) and AEROFORCE takes third at 15.1% (76 boats); together the top three carry 55.8% of the fleet. Each classified boat carries one archetype (one of the fleet's eight recurring design types), and 501 of the 504 are classified. SPARKFLEX at 11.3% and HEFTLINE at 11.1% sit one boat apart behind the top three, KEELRUN holds 9.3%, AEROCORE 8.5% and AEROSTREAM 3.4%.

Johnstone R designs are the largest drawing-board group, at 12.1% of the fleet (61 boats), with Jeppesen N next at 9.5% (48 boats). The classes with the most boats are the J-109, the J-105, the J-99, the First 31.7 and the First 36.7.

The racing runs through the Delta waters of Zeeland and South Holland, the Markermeer and the IJ, and out across the North Sea. The eight admitted events, newest first:

  • Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend 2026 — Breskens, August 2026 (the result presented below)
  • Deltaweekend 2026 — Zierikzee, June 2026
  • 40 mijl van Bru 2026 — Bruinisse, May 2026
  • North Sea Race 2026 — a GBR-to-NED offshore race, May 2026
  • SAILWORKZ-Stellendam Regatta 2026 — Stellendam, May 2026
  • Y-Torenrace 2026 — Durgerdam, May 2026
  • 50 Mijl Shorthanded 2026 — Lelystad, April 2026
  • North Sea Race 2025 — a GBR-to-NED offshore race, May 2025

Domestic competitive fleet · 504 boats · as of 2026-11-03

At a glance

Netherlands ORC — structural profile.

Scope
504 boats
476 ORC-rated · 28 mapped-IRC
Top 3 archetypes
  1. LEANRUN — 124 boats (24.6%)
  2. LEANFORCE — 81 boats (16.1%)
  3. AEROFORCE — 76 boats (15.1%)
Eight canonical performance archetypes (the fleet’s eight recurring design types) cluster the fleet by dimensional signature. See the full map →
Top designer cluster
Johnstone R
61 boats (12.1%) — the most-represented design voice in this fleet.

Counts and archetype assignments above are measured from the current corpus. Commentary below is interpretive.

Domestic competitive fleet · as of 2026-11-03
Fleet DNA

How the Netherlands ORC fleet is built.

504 boats in the fleet. 476 ORC-rated and 28 mapped IRC entries, 501 of them classified across the eight archetypes.

LEANRUN leads the structure, LEANFORCE is second and AEROFORCE third — the top three together carry 55.8% of the fleet.

The Netherlands ORC Fleet Signature

The Netherlands ORC fleet is led by LEANRUN, with two families close behind it. LEANRUN leads the count order at 24.6% (124 boats). LEANFORCE follows at 16.1% (81 boats), the compact-scale family. AEROFORCE takes third at 15.1% (76 boats), the large-scale, level-postured family on a neutral reserve.

  • LEANRUN 24.6% · 124 boats
  • LEANFORCE 16.1% · 81 boats
  • AEROFORCE 15.1% · 76 boats

Johnstone R designs lead the drawing board at 12.1% of the fleet (61 boats), with Jeppesen N at 9.5% (48 boats). Top classes: J-109, J-105, J-99, First 31.7 and First 36.7.

Complete data Latest published view

The full distribution across the eight archetypes.

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

From the physics: neutral upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 124
Share 24.6%
  • First 36.7
  • X-35
  • J-109

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

From the physics: neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 81
Share 16.1%
  • First 34.7
  • Elan 340
  • Mat 10.10

AEROFORCE

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

From the physics: weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 76
Share 15.1%
  • First 40
  • First 45
  • Swan 45

SPARKFLEX

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

From the physics: neutral upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 57
Share 11.3%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • First 31.7

HEFTLINE

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

From the physics: moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 56
Share 11.1%
  • J-105
  • J-111
  • J-99

KEELRUN

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

From the physics: strong upwind · strong reaching · strong downwind

Boats 47
Share 9.3%
  • Melges 24 OD
  • Fareast 28R
  • Cape 31

AEROCORE

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

From the physics: neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 43
Share 8.5%
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • Italia 11.98
  • Dufour 41 Performance

AEROSTREAM

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

From the physics: neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 17
Share 3.4%
  • TP-52
  • X-41
  • XP-44

LEANRUN (24.6%), LEANFORCE (16.1%) and AEROFORCE (15.1%) carry 55.8% of the fleet between them. SPARKFLEX (11.3%) and HEFTLINE (11.1%) sit one boat apart behind them, KEELRUN holds 9.3%, AEROCORE 8.5% and AEROSTREAM 3.4%.

The eight archetype names are the current census, resolved from the eleven measured slots. How eleven resolved into eight →

Event cohort view · 12 boats · as of 2026-11-03

Selected Race Result

Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend 2026 — two classes at Breskens.

18 of the 504 boats in the Netherlands ORC fleet's view sailed the Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend 2026 at Breskens, 28 to 29 August 2026 — twelve with Dutch sail numbers, five Belgian and one British. Five races in the published view, with series standings in two classes, IRC/ORC 1 and IRC/ORC 2.

Headlines

The two classes at Breskens.

This event publishes ranks and points; FleetEdge computes no pace products for it — the boards below are the published series standings. In each class the published table puts three mapped IRC entries level in first place in every race; that shared first place is not read as a class result here, so no class winner is named, and the boards list the published positions that follow it.

Race Standings · IRC/ORC 1

IRC/ORC 1 · 4th Jack Rabbit
IRC/ORC 1 · 5th Olympix
IRC/ORC 1 · 6th Van Uden

Race Standings · IRC/ORC 2

IRC/ORC 2 · 4th Warp 5
IRC/ORC 2 · 5th Easy Living
IRC/ORC 2 · 6th Rosetta

Race Standings are the published series positions in each class, read at class grain. IRC/ORC 1 ran 10 boats resolved in FleetEdge's view and IRC/ORC 2 ran 8; published class field sizes are not carried at class grain in the current view, so no “of N” is shown, and points are not rendered in this view. Source: FleetEdge published data (as of 2026-11-03).

Stories

A cross-border weekend at Breskens.

Nationality / Class Cluster

Twelve Dutch boats, five Belgian and one British in an 18-boat field.

Breskens sits on the Westerschelde, a short crossing from the Belgian coast, and the field carries that geography: twelve of the 18 boats sail under Dutch sail numbers, five under Belgian and one under British. The British entry, Euphoria (Grand Soleil 43), raced IRC/ORC 1; the Belgian ORC-certificated entry Njord AEROFORCE (J-122) placed 7th in IRC/ORC 1 as published. The other four Belgian boats are mapped IRC entries.

  • Sail numbers: 12 NED · 5 BEL · 1 GBR
  • Classes: IRC/ORC 1 (10 boats resolved in FleetEdge's view) · IRC/ORC 2 (8)
Complete data Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend 2026
Nationality / Class Cluster

Six Johnstone designs in the field, and the first published position after the shared lead in both classes.

Six of the 18 boats are Johnstone designs — a J-112, a J-112E, a J-122, a J-99 and two J-105s — and they hold the first published position after the shared first place in each class: Jack Rabbit LEANRUN (J-112) is 4th in IRC/ORC 1 and Warp 5 HEFTLINE (J-99) is 4th in IRC/ORC 2, both as published. The two J-105s are mapped IRC entries.

  • IRC/ORC 1: Jack Rabbit (J-112) 4th · IRC/ORC 2: Warp 5 (J-99) 4th
  • Johnstone designs in the field: 6 of the 18 boats
Complete data Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend 2026
Race Archetypes

12 boats in the archetype view at the Damen Breskens Sailing Weekend 2026.

Archetype assignments dated 2026-11-03 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

12 of 18 boats in the archetype view: the six mapped IRC entries at this event carry no assignment in it.

LEANRUN

— upwind-neutral in race results.

Boats 5
Share 41.7%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 2
Share 16.7%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 2
Share 16.7%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

Boats 2
Share 16.7%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 1
Share 8.3%
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