ORC Superyacht

ORCsy superyacht fleet racing under ORC PCS corrected-time scoring

Mediterranean Caribbean New Zealand
116 boats 38 events 429 races 229 obs Global fleet view · as of 2026-08-20
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 109 of 116 boats classified on the current publication. AEROCORE leads at 37.9% (44 boats) — the large-scale, upright-postured hull of the Large-Platform family, carried on a tender righting reserve — with AEROFORCE at 25.9% (30 boats), large scale on a level posture with a neutral reserve, and AEROSTREAM at 24.1% (28 boats), the towering-scale, level-posture platform with a stiff reserve. Together the three leading families carry 87.9% of the fleet in three shapes. German Frers anchors the designer signature at 26.7% (31 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 — 29 fleet boats across 24 races.

Global fleet view · 116 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet DNA

How the ORC Superyacht fleet is built.

116 boats in the fleet. 108 ORC-rated and 8 mapped IRC entries, 109 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 37.9% (44 boats) — large-scale, upright-postured hulls of the Large-Platform family, carried on a tender righting reserve. AEROFORCE follows at 25.9% (30 boats) — large scale on a level posture with a neutral righting reserve. AEROSTREAM takes third at 24.1% (28 boats) — the towering-scale, level-posture platform with a stiff reserve. Together the leading three carry 87.9% 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 37.9% · 44 boats
  • AEROFORCE 25.9% · 30 boats
  • AEROSTREAM 24.1% · 28 boats

Dimension emphasis: Comparative Time · Crew Residual · Upwind VMG

German Frers anchors the designer signature at 26.7% (31 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.

AEROSTREAM

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

strong upwind · weak reaching · strong downwind

Boats 28
Share 24.1%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 44
Share 37.9%
  • First 45
  • First 40
  • Oceanis 43

AEROFORCE

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 30
Share 25.9%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

weak upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 3
Share 2.6%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 1
Share 0.9%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

KEELRUN

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

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 1
Share 0.9%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

AEROCORE and AEROFORCE together account for 63.8% 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 · 29 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Selected Race Result

ROLEX SWAN CUP 2024 — ORCsy Classes

29 of 116 fleet boats competed. 24 races under PCS Constructed Course windward-leeward scoring, September 17–21, 2024, Porto Cervo — the regatta ORC built ORCsy around.

Headlines

The dimensional leaderboards.

The most recent event in the ORC superyacht fleet's racing record is the Superyacht Challenge Antigua 2026, a superyacht regatta 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.

Comparative Time vs ORC

1. ISABELLA · −177.44 sec/nm
2. ELAN · −145.13 sec/nm
3. DREAM · −143.83 sec/nm

Crew Residual

1. MATCHLESS · −179.39 sec/nm
2. LIBELULA · −179.07 sec/nm
3. ISABELLA · −177.44 sec/nm

Upwind VMG (12 kt)

1. UMIKO · 7.31 kn
2. DEFIANCE · 6.96 kn
3. MARLIN II · 6.61 kn

The Rolex Swan Cup 2024 (September 17–21, 2024) is the regatta these leaderboards profile; its classified entry is sorted by archetype in a Race Archetypes grid below.

Stories

What the Swan Cup told us.

FROM NOW ON — Rolex Swan Cup Champion, Class 7C GP

FROM NOW ON (ARG-5835, Swan 45, AEROSTREAM) took Class 7C GP at the 2024 Rolex Swan Cup — first in class on 3 points, clear of Dutch sister-ship TENGHER (5 points) and CLEM PRIMERO (ESP, Swan 56-5, 10 points). A Frers-drawn Swan 45 converting class-deep racing into a decisive series win at the regatta ORC built ORCsy around.

Four class titles inside one membership

Fleet boats took four of the Swan Cup's class series: FROM NOW ON (ARG-5835, Swan 45, Class 7C GP on 3 points), KATIMA (GER 6593, Swan 45, Class 6C C on 3 points), MARLIN II (ITA-65101, Swan 65, Class 2 MM on 8 points), and ISABELLA (GER-8510, Swan 36, Class 3SS C on 7 points). All four are Swan hulls — three Frers boards and one Sparkman & Stephens — the Swan lineage sweeping its own invitational.

A Sparkman & Stephens sweep of the crew board

The four deepest Crew Residual signals of the regatta all sit on Sparkman & Stephens Swans: MATCHLESS (GBR-171, Swan 57, AEROFORCE) at −179.39 sec/nm, LIBELULA (ESP-3365, Swan 65, AEROFORCE) at −179.07, ISABELLA (GER-8510, Swan 36, LEANFORCE) at −177.44, and MAJE (IRL-5474, Swan 41, AEROFORCE) at −172.15. Across the crew board, the classic S&S hulls carried the strongest crew execution of the week — the crews beat their boats' archetype-expected pace by the widest margins in the field.

DEFIANCE: physics pace, scoring tailender

USA 52575 DEFIANCE (JV-66, AEROSTREAM) ran 2nd of 26 on Upwind VMG at 6.96 kn — maxi-scale raw pace — and finished 26th of 26 on both Comparative Time (+174.09 sec/nm) and Crew Residual (+174.09 sec/nm). The widest under-conversion in the regatta: the physics lens puts the 66-foot Judel/Vrolijk hull near the top of the field, and the corrected-time lens puts it last. Pace alone does not close an ORC allowance gap.

Race Archetypes

29 boats classified in ROLEX SWAN CUP 2024.

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

AEROFORCE carries the largest share of the race group at 55.2% — 16 of the 29 classified boats, the large-scale, level-postured hull on a neutral righting reserve — with AEROSTREAM at 37.9% (11 boats) behind, and AEROCORE and LEANFORCE holding a single boat apiece.

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 16
Share 55.2%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 11
Share 37.9%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 1
Share 3.4%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 1
Share 3.4%
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 the whole ORC superyacht 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 · 109 of 116 classified · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet Stories

The superyacht fleet signature.

German Frers lines define the superyacht fleet

31 of the fleet's 116 boats — 26.7% — 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 44 of the fleet's 116 boats, 37.9% of the fleet — the largest single family in the rated superyacht membership. AEROFORCE follows at 25.9% (30 boats) and AEROSTREAM at 24.1% (28 boats); the leading three carry 87.9% 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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