ORC Superyacht

ORCsy superyacht fleet racing under ORC PCS corrected-time scoring

Mediterranean Caribbean New Zealand
119 boats 42 events 135 races 229 obs Global fleet view · as of 2026-09-02
Kinship

Every fleet’s waters hold their own story.

Grand-prix superyacht circuits across the Mediterranean and Caribbean — find their waters.

 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 ORC Superyacht fleet races, before the results arrive.
Character

Professional crews. Extreme parameters. ORCsy — a class apart.

ORC Superyacht racing is where 24-meter hulls, professional crews of 20 or more, and extreme sail inventories create a competitive dynamic that exists nowhere else in rated racing — centered on the Mediterranean superyacht circuit and measured through ORCsy, the rating innovation built specifically for the largest yachts. The fleet is spread worldwide, concentrated in major maritime centers and classic race locations from Porto Cervo to the Caribbean and New Zealand. Superyachts range from 60 to 100+ feet and represent a cross-section of contemporary yacht design — modern high-performance platforms, classic yachts restored and refit for competitive racing, Swan racer-cruisers across the full hull-form lineage.

The Superyacht fleet is characterized by technical sophistication, professional crew training, and substantial resource investment. Superyacht racing demands expertise in large-boat sail handling, advanced navigation systems, optimized rig configurations, and crew coordination at scale. The boats themselves often incorporate leading-edge materials, advanced electronics, and custom design features. Superyacht ownership is split between professional racing programs and owner-operated campaigns, often with hybrid crew models. The quality of racing data is very high due to professional measurement standards, experienced crew consistency, and the significance of competitive outcomes.

FleetEdge tracks the ORC Superyacht fleet across 7 of the 8 archetypes, with 112 of 119 boats classified on the current publication. AEROCORE leads at 37.8% (45 boats) — the large-scale, upright-postured hull of the Large-Platform family, carried on a tender righting reserve — with AEROFORCE at 29.4% (35 boats), large scale on a level posture with a neutral reserve, and AEROSTREAM at 20.2% (24 boats), the towering-scale, level-posture platform with a stiff reserve. Together the three leading families carry 87.4% of the fleet in three shapes. German Frers anchors the designer signature at 26.9% (32 boats) — the house design board of the Nautor's Swan lineage is the single largest cluster in the membership.

Key 2026 anchors include the next Rolex Swan Cup (Porto Cervo, biennial) and the Mediterranean superyacht circuit through the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta, and the Superyacht Challenge. The Swan Cup 2024 at Porto Cervo is the regatta ORC built ORCsy around and remains the fleet's deepest data event — 31 fleet boats across 4 races.

Global fleet view · 119 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet DNA

How the ORC Superyacht fleet is built.

119 boats in the fleet. 109 ORC-rated and 10 mapped IRC entries, 112 attributed across 7 of the 8 archetypes; 7 remain unclassified on the current publication.

The ORC Superyacht Fleet Signature

The ORCsy fleet spans 60 to 100+ feet of LOA inside a single rating membership. AEROCORE leads at 37.8% (45 boats) — large-scale, upright-postured hulls of the Large-Platform family, carried on a tender righting reserve. AEROFORCE follows at 29.4% (35 boats) — large scale on a level posture with a neutral righting reserve. AEROSTREAM takes third at 20.2% (24 boats) — the towering-scale, level-posture platform with a stiff reserve. Together the leading three carry 87.4% of the fleet: this is a concentrated membership rather than a broad one, and the four families behind them hold three boats or fewer apiece.

  • AEROCORE 37.8% · 45 boats
  • AEROFORCE 29.4% · 35 boats
  • AEROSTREAM 20.2% · 24 boats

Dimension emphasis: Comparative Time · Crew Residual · Upwind VMG

German Frers anchors the designer signature at 26.9% (32 boats) — the Swan house lineage. Top classes: Superyacht (4), Super Maxi (3), Swan 45 (3), Swan 53 (3), Swan 58 (3). The next Rolex Swan Cup runs in Porto Cervo on the ORC biennial schedule.

Complete data Latest published view

The full archetype distribution.

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 45
Share 37.8%
  • First 45
  • First 40
  • Oceanis 43

AEROFORCE

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

weak upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 35
Share 29.4%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

AEROSTREAM

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · weak downwind

Boats 24
Share 20.2%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — measured downwind advantage in race results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 3
Share 2.5%
  • 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 1
Share 0.8%
  • 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 1
Share 0.8%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

AEROCORE and AEROFORCE together account for 67.2% of the fleet — a clear majority of the rated superyacht membership, while the four smallest families hold three boats or fewer apiece.

Event cohort view · 20 boats · as of 2026-09-02

Selected Race Result

Ibiza JoySail 2025 — ORCsy Classes

20 of 119 fleet boats competed. 4 races under PCS Constructed Course windward-leeward scoring, 18–21 September 2025, off Ibiza.

Headlines

The dimensional leaderboards.

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 board ranks the 11 fleet boats that carry a comparative reading at this event against a field median of −167.98 sec/nm (seconds per nautical mile — pace normalized by distance); the two certificate boards rank all 20 fleet boats that sailed. FleetEdge holds a crew-execution reading for a single boat at this event — a one-boat field carries no truthful comparison, so no crew board renders. “Obs” are boat-event pairs.

Comparative Time

1. ALLSMOKE · −197.73 sec/nm
2. KARIBU · −178.95 sec/nm
3. AMMONITE II · −178.03 sec/nm
Median −167.98 sec/nm · 11 boats

Upwind VMG (12 kt)

1. MOAT · 8.35 kn
2. JASI · 8.25 kn
3. ESENSE · 8.13 kn

Downwind VMG (12 kt)

1. ESENSE · 9.70 kn
1. MOAT · 9.70 kn
3. LIBERTY SQUARED · 9.62 kn

The Ibiza JoySail 2025 (18–21 September 2025) is the regatta these leaderboards profile; its classified entry is sorted by archetype in a Race Archetypes grid below. ESENSE and MOAT share the Downwind VMG lead because their certificate values tie.

Stories

What Ibiza told us.

MOAT — Event Champion, Class P

MOAT AEROCORE (GBR-4737, Swan 115) took Class P at the Ibiza JoySail 2025 on 4 points — first in class in each of the four windward-leeward races — clear of sister-ship JASI AEROCORE (SY069, Swan 115) on 8 points, with 4 boats resolved in FleetEdge's view. Two Frers-drawn Swan 115s filled the top two places, and the winner also topped the Upwind VMG board at 8.35 kn.

AMMONITE II: ten seconds a mile clear of the field median

AMMONITE II AEROFORCE (SY254, a Farr design built by Southern Wind) ran −178.03 sec/nm against the rating expectation across two scored races — 10.05 sec/nm ahead of the field median of −167.98 across the 11 fleet boats with a comparative reading, the 80th percentile of that 11-boat field and its highest-confidence reading ahead of the median. ALLSMOKE AEROCORE (SY230) sits deeper at −197.73 on a single race; the wider sample belongs to the Farr hull.

Five class titles inside one membership

Fleet boats took five of the Ibiza JoySail 2025 class series: MOAT AEROCORE (GBR-4737, Swan 115, Class P on 4 points), LIBERTY SQUARED AEROSTREAM (GBR-7772R, Class PCL on 5 points), OPEN SEASON AEROCORE (SY336, Baltic 68 Café Racer, Class PCM on 5 points), L'HIPPOCAMPE AEROFORCE (CAY-104, Swan 100 S, Class PCXL on 7 points) and AURELIUS AEROFORCE (SY227, Class WC on 6 points). Two Frers-drawn Swans, a Farr-drawn Southern Wind, a Baltic 68 and a Dykstra design — five hulls from three archetype groups, with the two smaller groups in the field taking three of the five titles.

A Southern Wind sweep of Class PCL

Every one of the five boats resolved in FleetEdge's view for Class PCL came out of the Southern Wind yard: LIBERTY SQUARED AEROSTREAM (GBR-7772R) won on 5 points, ahead of KIBOKO 4 AEROCORE (SY354, 8 points), GELLICEAUX AEROCORE (SY318, 13 points), MAGIC BLUE AEROCORE (ESP-10101, 14 points) and AMMONITE II AEROFORCE (SY254, 20 points) — four of them Farr-drawn and the fifth from Pugh, one builder filling a whole division.

The Ibiza field leaned hard toward AEROCORE

AEROCORE carried 14 of the 20 classified boats at Ibiza — 70.0% of the race group, against the 37.8% it holds across the fleet (45 boats) — with AEROFORCE at 25.0% (5 boats) against 29.4% (35 boats) fleet-wide and AEROSTREAM down to a single boat, 5.0% against 20.2% (24 boats) in the fleet. The large-scale, upright-postured hull on a tender righting reserve turned out in strength for four days of windward-leeward racing; the towering-scale AEROSTREAM platforms that hold a fifth of the membership were all but absent from this field.

Race Archetypes

20 boats classified in the Ibiza JoySail 2025.

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

AEROCORE carries the largest share of the race group at 70.0% — 14 of the 20 classified boats, the large-scale, upright-postured hull on a tender righting reserve — with AEROFORCE at 25.0% (5 boats) behind and AEROSTREAM holding a single boat.

AEROCORE

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

Boats 14
Share 70.0%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 5
Share 25.0%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 1
Share 5.0%

Classified fleet view · 112 of 119 classified · as of 2026-09-02

Fleet Stories

The superyacht fleet signature.

German Frers lines define the superyacht fleet

32 of the fleet's 119 boats — 26.9% — come off the German Frers design board, the house designer of the Nautor's Swan lineage that anchors ORCsy membership. Better than a quarter of the world's rated superyacht fleet traces to a single design office.

AEROCORE leads the superyacht fleet

AEROCORE — the large-scale, upright-postured hull of the Large-Platform family, carried on a tender righting reserve — takes 45 of the fleet's 119 boats, 37.8% of the fleet — the largest single family in the rated superyacht membership. AEROFORCE follows at 29.4% (35 boats) and AEROSTREAM at 20.2% (24 boats); the leading three carry 87.4% of the fleet between them, no other family clears a twentieth of it, and the smallest hold a single boat apiece.

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