ORC World Fleet

ORC World and Continental Championships, multi-nation events

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366 boats 60 events 707 races 2,909 obs Global corpus · as of 2026-04-21 · build a2e90234
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 Hidden Shape

11 archetypes across 31 dimensional features.
How this fleet clusters before the results arrive.

How the ORC World Fleet races, before the results arrive.
Character

The world-travelling fleet. Three hundred and sixty-six passports on the start line.

The ORC World Fleet is FleetEdge's international-travelers cohort — 366 boats that travel beyond their home nationals to contest the global ORC championship circuit. Copa del Rey, the ORC World Championship, the European Championship, the Double-Handed Worlds — this is the fleet that shows up when a title is on the line and the entry list crosses borders. The cohort encompasses approximately 5,000+ active ORC rating certificates distributed across 40+ countries and 6 continents, but the travelling slice — the boats prepared to commit to a week away from home waters — is this 366.

The World Fleet is characterized by extraordinary demographic diversity. Racing ranges from weekend club programmes to professional grand-prix campaigns; crews span from owner-operated syndicates to fully professional teams; hull designs range from classic Farr-penned First-family racer-cruisers to cutting-edge TP 52s and DK 46s. Different flags, different home waters, different design philosophies — all measured through the same dimensional framework, and all visible in the cross-fleet comparative lens this fleet exists to feed.

FleetEdge tracks 366 boats across 11 archetypes (362 classified). AEROMAX leads at 27.9% (102 boats), KEELFLEX follows at 27.0% (99 boats), and together they carry 54.9% of the cohort — power-efficiency hybrids and narrow-balance racing hulls are the two families that concentrate championship-level design at the global level. The designer signature is led by Jeppesen-Nielsen (X-Yachts) at 11.9% (43 boats), narrowly ahead of Farr Designs at 11.3% (41 boats); Judel-Vrolijk, Polli, and Johnstone fill the long tail.

The 2025 peak event was the 43rd Copa del Rey — ORC European Championship (Palma, 29 July–2 August), where 114 of 366 world-fleet boats competed across four classes and 40 races. The next peak fixture is the 2026 ORC World Championship at Sorrento (Bay of Naples, 5–14 May 2026) — the title returns to Italian home waters under the May Mediterranean medium-air band. The domestic Italian ORC fleet carries the highest AEROMAX density of any national cohort (16.9%) entering Sorrento; the international fleet that travels will be testing its own archetype ordering against Italian home-fleet density and home thermal knowledge.

Fleet DNA

How the ORC World fleet is built.

366 boats in the fleet. 364 ORC-rated and 2 IRC-synthetic attributed across 11 archetypes.

The ORC World Fleet Signature

The ORC World Fleet is a two-archetype collective at 55%, tuned for championship-level racing on the international circuit. AEROMAX leads at 27.9% (102 boats) — the power-efficiency hybrid with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement — narrowly ahead of KEELFLEX at 27.0% (99 boats). Together those two families carry 54.9% of the classified fleet. GLIDEFORM (12.3%), BALANCECORE (10.4%), and STEELFORM (7.4%) complete the top five; the heavy-displacement archetypes (STORMLINE, GRAVITYRUN) are thinner here than in home-fleet slices, reflecting the self-selection effect — the circuit rewards hulls tuned to championship courses, not home-water offshore classics.

  • AEROMAX 27.9% · 102 boats
  • KEELFLEX 27.0% · 99 boats
  • GLIDEFORM 12.3% · 45 boats

Dimension emphasis: Comparative Time · Upwind VMG · Sail Drive

Jeppesen-Nielsen (X-Yachts) leads the designer signature at 11.9% (43 boats), with Farr Designs at 11.3% (41), Judel-Vrolijk at 5.5%, Polli at 5.2%, and Johnstone at 5.2%. Top classes: X-41 (13), TP52 (10), First 34.7 (9), First 40.7 (8), Italia 11.98 (8). In May 2026 the Sorrento World Championship is the next peak fixture.

High confidence Production

The full 11-archetype distribution.

Aeromax

Power-efficiency hybrid with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement.

Boats 102
Share 27.9%

Keelflex

Narrow stability window; fast when perfectly balanced, punishing when not.

Boats 99
Share 27.0%

Glideform

Low-drag hull with efficient upwind flow and moderate displacement.

Boats 45
Share 12.3%

Balancecore

Heel-sensitive platform with a wider, more forgiving performance envelope.

Boats 38
Share 10.4%

Steelform

Heavy-displacement hull with strong directional stability.

Boats 27
Share 7.4%

Headforce

High righting moment, upwind-biased hull that powers through chop.

Boats 24
Share 6.6%

Aeroblade

Light, agile platform optimised for quick acceleration and flat-water speed.

Boats 10
Share 2.7%

Deepframe

Deep-hull efficiency paired with a stiff platform for drag-optimised flow.

Boats 9
Share 2.5%

Stormline

Rough-water specialist with a hull shape optimised for steep, short waves.

Boats 5
Share 1.4%

Ironwind

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behaviour.

Boats 5
Share 1.4%

Gravityrun

Heavy-mode momentum boat with strong downwind power in sustained breeze.

Boats 2
Share 0.5%

Aeromax and Keelflex together account for 54.9% — the ORC World fleet favours power-efficiency upwind platforms and narrow-balance racing hulls, the two families that concentrate championship-level design in the global dataset.

Latest story

From Palma to Sorrento. The European champions, and the World title ahead.

The 43rd Copa del Rey (Palma, 29 July–2 August 2025) delivered the European Championship across 114 of 366 world-fleet boats, 40 races, and four class titles split 2-2 between KEELFLEX and AEROMAX. Four stories from the 2025 peak event, and the forward bridge into the 2026 ORC World Championship at Sorrento (May 5–14), where the title returns to Italian home waters under the Mediterranean medium-air band.

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Looking forward

At the 43rd Copa del Rey in Palma, KEELFLEX (42.5% of the 113-boat race cohort) and AEROMAX (31.9%) between them carried 74.4% of the European Championship field and claimed all four class titles 2–2. In May 2026 the fleet reconvenes on Italian home waters for the ORC World Championship at Sorrento (Bay of Naples, 5–14 May). May Bay of Naples pressure typically delivers 8–14 knots with afternoon thermal shifts — a medium-air window where AEROMAX's power-efficiency signature does its loudest work, distinct from the 10–14 knot steady gradient that shaped the 2025 Tallinn World Championship result. The Italian national cohort carries the highest AEROMAX density of any national fleet entering Sorrento at 16.9%; the international fleet that travels will be testing its own archetype ordering against Italian home-fleet density.

Will the AEROMAX contingent convert Italian home-water advantage into a World Championship title on home tides, or will the KEELFLEX 27.0% traveller backbone carry the trophy away from Italian waters?

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Performance Verdict · Multi-Dimension Presence

Vesper: Class 0 champion and the only triple-surface Headline boat.

USA-52007 Vesper (TP 52, KEELFLEX) won Class 0 at the 43rd Copa del Rey with 16.5 points — 1st of 17 in the Maxi class — and is the only boat in the 113-boat European Championship cohort to post a top-three finish on three Headline families: 1st Upwind VMG at 7.08 kn, 2nd Comparative Time at −4.21 sec/nm, and 3rd Sail Drive Efficiency at 3.272. Leading the fleet on pointing, clearing the allowance by four seconds per mile, and topping the standings in the largest-boat class is a triple-surface presence unmatched elsewhere in the cohort. KEELFLEX is the narrow-balance racing archetype — the TP 52 platform converted physics dominance into both the class trophy and the multi-dimensional Headline presence, on a Palma-to-coastal course mix that let the boat live inside its balance window for the full week.

  • Vesper Class 0: 1st of 17 · 16.5 points
  • Vesper Upwind VMG: 7.08 kn · 1st of 113
  • Vesper Comp Time: −4.21 sec/nm · 2nd of 113
High confidence RR Copa del Rey 2025
Multi-Champion Cluster

Four class titles split 2-2 between KEELFLEX and AEROMAX.

The four Copa del Rey 2025 class champions mirror the race cohort's top two archetypes exactly. KEELFLEX took Class 0 and Class A: Vesper (USA-52007 TP 52) won the Maxi class, and KAJSA III (SUI-2012 DK 46) won Class A with 25.5 points, leading a three-deep KEELFLEX podium (ELENA NOVA and HYDRA behind). AEROMAX took Class B and Class C: Technonicol (SMR-1023 X-41 mod) won Class B with 26.5 points ahead of two further AEROMAX boats (SIDERACORDIS, GUARDAMAGO), and MON DE L'ONA II (ESP-7834 Vrolijk 37) won Class C with the lowest winning score of the regatta (18.5 points) in the most archetype-mixed podium of the week. Four class trophies, two archetype families, mirroring the 42.5% KEELFLEX + 31.9% AEROMAX race cohort split. The championship selected for these two families and the trophies stayed inside them.

  • Class 0: Vesper (TP 52, KEELFLEX) · Class A: KAJSA III (DK 46, KEELFLEX)
  • Class B: Technonicol (X-41 mod, AEROMAX) · Class C: MON DE L'ONA II (Vrolijk 37, AEROMAX)
  • Race cohort KEELFLEX + AEROMAX: 74.4% (48+36 of 113)
High confidence RR Copa del Rey 2025
Performance Verdict · Class Champion + Dimension Leader

Technonicol: Class B champion and the only class winner to top a dimensional board.

SMR-1023 Technonicol (X-41 modified, AEROMAX) won Class B at the 43rd Copa del Rey with 26.5 points ahead of two further AEROMAX boats (ITA-41048 SIDERACORDIS and ITA-27102 GUARDAMAGO). The modified X-41 also carried the Comparative Time leaderboard at −5.17 sec/nm vs ORC — the only class champion at the 2025 European Championship to top a Headline dimension in addition to winning its class. AEROMAX is the power-efficiency hybrid with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement — the X-41 modified platform converted the Palma medium-air week into both a class trophy and the fastest corrected-time result across the full 113-boat cohort. The X-Yachts Jeppesen-Nielsen lineage (11.9% of the world fleet by designer share) delivered its own house hull at the top of the European Championship.

  • Technonicol Class B: 1st of 32 · 26.5 points
  • Technonicol Comp Time: −5.17 sec/nm · 1st of 113
  • Class B AEROMAX podium: Technonicol / SIDERACORDIS / GUARDAMAGO
High confidence RR Copa del Rey 2025
Pre-race window · Archetype-Conditions

Sorrento's May thermal band is where AEROMAX does its loudest work.

The 2026 ORC World Championship runs May 5–14 in the Bay of Naples — the first Italian-hosted world title in a generation. Sorrento 2026 shifts the venue from the 2025 Tallinn Baltic gradient to the Mediterranean May thermal band. May Bay of Naples pressure typically delivers 8–14 knots with afternoon thermal shifts — the exact condition window where AEROMAX's power-efficiency signature does its loudest work, distinct from the 10–14 knot steady gradient that shaped the 2025 Tallinn result. The Italian national fleet carries the highest AEROMAX density of any national cohort entering Sorrento at 16.9% (287 boats); TO BE (ITA-2915, Italia 11.98, AEROMAX) just demonstrated the archetype's ceiling at the Copa del Rey by clearing the 113-boat European field by a 15 sec/nm margin on the allowance scale. The international traveller fleet will be testing its own archetype ordering against Italian home-fleet density and home thermal knowledge. Pre-race speculation — actual conditions and crew execution will arbitrate.

  • Racing: May 5–14, 2026 · Bay of Naples
  • Italian AEROMAX density: 16.9% · highest of any national cohort
  • TO BE Copa Comp Time: −22.69 sec/nm · 15 sec/nm clear (Card 1 context)
Pre-race speculative FE Weather × Archetype (historical)
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