ORC World Fleet

The international championship-circuit fleet — Worlds, Continental, and Double-Handed championships.

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370 boats 78 events 902 races 817 obs International event fleet · as of 2026-06-21
Kinship

Every fleet’s waters hold their own story.

From Sorrento to Tallinn, Annapolis to Capri — find your championship waters.

 Hidden Shape

11 archetypes.
How a world-traveling fleet clusters before the results arrive.

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

The world-traveling fleet. 370 boats that pack passports.

The ORC World Fleet is FleetEdge’s international-travelers fleet — 370 boats that contest the global ORC championship circuit beyond their home nationals. The Worlds, the European Championship, the Double-Handed World and European Championships, the Mediterranean Championship — this is the fleet that shows up when a title is on the line and the entry list crosses borders. Seventy-eight events, 902 races, and 817 boat-event observations let you compare boats across countries and events on this hub.

The world fleet is broad-spectrum by archetype — no single hull family holds the largest share. AEROBLADE leads at 20.3% (75 boats), DEEPFRAME follows close behind at 18.7% (69), and AEROMAX sits third at 14.9% (55). The top three are unusually tight — less than six points separate first from third — and five more archetypes carry between 4% and 13% each. The trophy hunters of the international circuit do not all look the same: light-and-agile platforms, deep-hull efficiency racers, power-efficiency hybrids, downwind-momentum classics, and rough-water specialists all earn entries beside one another. The geographic backbone is Mediterranean — Italy carries the largest single national share — but the Nordic countries together (Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Sweden) form the structural counterweight that defines the fleet’s split personality between warm-water Med racing and Baltic championship summers.

The marquee outcome of the current published data is the 2026 ORC World Championship at Sorrento (Bay of Naples, 8–14 May 2026). Four championship classes, four trophies, two archetypes: AEROBLADE took Classes 0 (SUMMER STORM, TP-52) and A (RAN, Carkeek 40+); DEEPFRAME took Classes B (KATARA, Pg-390) and C (ROBE DA MAT, Mat-11). RAN’s Class A win is the second in a row — the Swedish Carkeek 40+ also won Class A at Tallinn 2025. This page sets out the macro identity above, then drops into the Selected Race Result lens for the Sorrento championship in detail.

Fleet DNA

How the ORC World Fleet is built.

370 boats in the fleet. 369 classified across 11 archetypes, with 1 unclassified at the platform-boundary.

The ORC World Fleet Signature

The ORC World Fleet is a broad-spectrum collective — the leading archetypes sit unusually close together, and no single hull family commands the circuit. AEROBLADE leads at 20.3% (75 boats) — the light, agile, quick-acceleration platform that brings First-family racer-cruisers and modern Carkeek/Botin grand-prix 40-footers to the international circuit. DEEPFRAME follows close behind at 18.6% (69 boats) — the deep-hull efficiency family that pairs a stiff platform with drag-optimized flow, the Swan and ClubSwan lineage. AEROMAX sits third at 14.9% (55 boats) — the power-efficiency hybrid with strong upwind drive and moderate displacement. Together the top three carry 53.9% of the fleet, separated by fewer than six points — a flatter leading band than the two-archetype dominance seen in narrower national fleets. Eight more archetypes carry between 2% and 13% each, with downwind-optimized hulls (GLIDEFORM 12.5% + GRAVITYRUN 10.3% = 22.8%) and the platform-rigid families (DEEPFRAME 18.7% + IRONWIND 5.7% + STEELCORE 4.9% + STEELFORM 2.2% + HEADFORCE 1.9% = 33.4%) each carrying meaningful structural weight.

  • AEROBLADE 20.3% · 75 boats
  • DEEPFRAME 18.6% · 69 boats
  • AEROMAX 14.9% · 55 boats

Dimension emphasis: Comparative Time · Hull Efficiency · Sail Drive · Upwind VMG

Farr Design leads the designer signature at 14.7% (54 boats), narrowly ahead of the X-Yachts drawing board. Johnstone, Polli, Frers, Judel-Vrolijk, and Mills each carry 3–5%, and the long tail spreads across Carkeek, Botin, Humphreys, Finot, and Cossutti drawing boards. Top classes: X-41 (12), First 34.7 (9), First 40.7 (7), Italia 11.98 (7), Sunfast 3300 (7). The marquee event of the current published data is the 2026 ORC World Championship at Sorrento (ORC World Championship 2026, 93 entries).

Complete data Latest published view

The full 11-archetype distribution.

AEROBLADE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 75
Share 20.3%
  • Class 40
  • IMOCA derivatives
  • Pogo 30

DEEPFRAME

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 69
Share 18.6%
  • Swan 60
  • Nautor custom
  • ClubSwan 50

AEROMAX

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

strong upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 55
Share 14.9%
  • TP52
  • GP42
  • Melges IC37

GLIDEFORM

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

weak upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 46
Share 12.4%
  • J/109
  • Dehler 38
  • Italia 11

GRAVITYRUN

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 38
Share 10.3%
  • Swan 47
  • C&C 41
  • Sigma 38

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 21
Share 5.7%
  • J/122
  • XP-44
  • Swan 45

STEELCORE

The rigid-platform core.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 18
Share 4.9%
  • First 40
  • Bavaria C42
  • Hanse 388

KEELFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 17
Share 4.6%
  • First 30
  • X-35
  • J/35

STORMLINE

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

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 15
Share 4.1%
  • J/111
  • J/121
  • Fast 40+

STEELFORM

Heavy-displacement hull with strong directional stability.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 8
Share 2.2%
  • J/70
  • Farr 280
  • SB20

HEADFORCE

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

strong upwind · weak reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 7
Share 1.9%
  • First 34.7
  • Grand Soleil 37
  • Sun Fast 3300

The top three archetypes (AEROBLADE, DEEPFRAME, AEROMAX) together carry 53.9% in a tight leading band, but the fleet spreads broadly across all 11 families — the international championship circuit attracts a wider hull range than any single national fleet because each venue rewards a different condition mix. Mediterranean light-air thermal venues pull AEROBLADE and DEEPFRAME forward; upwind-biased championship courses bring AEROMAX and IRONWIND into the conversation; rough-water reaching venues elevate STORMLINE; long offshore courses reward GRAVITYRUN.

Fleet Stories

World-fleet signature.

Designer Density

Farr Design — the ORC World Fleet’s most-common drawing board.

Farr Design leads the world-fleet designer signature at 14.7% (54 boats), narrowly ahead of the X-Yachts drawing board. The 14.7% share sits inside the 8–15% “most-common” band — a real signal that the Farr drawing board carries the largest single share of championship-level entries, but not a leading-share pattern. The X-Yachts board sits within striking distance, and the long tail (Johnstone, Polli, Frers, Judel-Vrolijk, and Mills, each carrying 3–5%) is unusually deep. The world fleet is the most designer-diverse fleet on the platform — no single drawing board owns the international championship circuit.

  • Farr Design: 54 boats · 14.7%
  • X-Yachts drawing board: within striking distance of the lead
  • Johnstone · Polli · Frers · Judel-Vrolijk · Mills: 3–5% each
Complete data FleetEdge fleet-wide data
Archetype Density

AEROBLADE leads the world fleet — but the bench runs eleven deep.

AEROBLADE leads the world fleet at 20.3% (75 of 369 classified boats), with DEEPFRAME a close second at 18.7% (69) and AEROMAX third at 14.9% (55). AEROBLADE is the light, agile platform — quick to accelerate, optimized for flat-water speed, the family of Carkeek 40+, TP-52, and modern grand-prix racing 40-footers. The lead is real but far from commanding: the top three carry 53.9% combined and are separated by fewer than six points, and eight more archetypes spread the remaining 46% across every hull family on the platform. The world fleet is the most archetype-diverse fleet on the platform — the trophy hunters at Sorrento, Tallinn, and the Mediterranean Championship venues do not look the same from one venue to the next, because each venue rewards a different condition mix.

  • AEROBLADE: 75 boats · 20.3%
  • DEEPFRAME: 69 boats · 18.7%
  • AEROMAX: 55 boats · 14.9%
Complete data FleetEdge fleet-wide data
Popular Classes

The boats that define ORC world-championship racing.

X-41 (12)

The X-Yachts grand-prix racer-cruiser from Jeppesen-Nielsen — a Class B mainstay across European and World championships, frequently sub-classified as Mod or One Design.

First 34.7 (9)

The Beneteau Farr-penned racer-cruiser — the most popular sub-12m offshore class on the international circuit, with strong Mediterranean and Baltic representation.

First 40.7 (7)

The larger Beneteau Farr-First sister — a Class A staple that bridges club-level offshore racing and championship-level entry.

Italia 11.98 (7)

The Cossutti-designed Italian mid-size racer — built by Italia Yachts, often sub-classified as Fuoriserie, and a Class B/C contender at Mediterranean ORC events.

Sunfast 3300 (7)

The Jeanneau Sunfast 3300 — a Daniel Andrieu shorthanded-offshore specialist, central to the Double-Handed World and European championships.

Featured Events

The championships the world fleet contests.

Across the 78-event international circuit, six championships anchor the fleet’s annual rhythm — the Worlds, the Continentals, and the Double-Handed Worlds and Europeans.

ORC World Championship 2026 — Sorrento

93 entries · 8–14 May 2026 · Bay of Naples, Italy. The marquee outcome of the current published data — four championship classes, four trophies, two archetypes (AEROBLADE + DEEPFRAME). Selected as the lens for this hub’s race-result section below.

Garmin ORC World Championships 2025 — Tallinn

61 entries · 11–16 August 2025 · Baltic Sea, Estonia. Three classes: RAN (AEROBLADE) took Class A, FORMULA X (DEEPFRAME) took Class B, and Garmin Team Pro4u (AEROBLADE) took Class C in the current published standings.

ORC Double Handed World Championship 2024

57 entries · June 2024. The biennial shorthanded-offshore championship, central to the Sunfast 3300, JPK 1030, and Dehler 30 OD lineage in the fleet.

ORC DH World Championships 2025

53 entries · September 2025. The 2025 edition of the Double-Handed Worlds — the second shorthanded marquee in the fleet’s annual rhythm.

ORC European Championship 2024

50 entries · 12–17 August 2024. The continental championship for the broader European fleet — the bridge event between national programs and the Worlds.

ORC DH European Championship 2025

34 entries · July 2025. The Double-Handed European Championship — the regional shorthanded title between the biennial DH Worlds editions.

Selected Race Result

2026 ORC World Championship — Sorrento, Bay of Naples.

93 of 370 fleet boats competed across 32 races and four championship classes (0, A, B, C) — offshore (the 130nm Tre Golfi opener under ToD weather-routing scoring), windward-leeward, and coastal courses under PCS constructed-course scoring. 8–14 May 2026. Two archetypes carried the four trophies: AEROBLADE in Classes 0 (SUMMER STORM, TP-52) and A (RAN, Carkeek 40+); DEEPFRAME in Classes B (KATARA, Pg-390) and C (ROBE DA MAT, Mat-11). The entry list tilted hard toward AEROBLADE, and the AEROBLADE + DEEPFRAME split on the top steps is consistent with the fleet’s archetype lead.

Headlines

Dimension leaders — the 93-boat Sorrento race group.

Allowance — sec/nm vs ORC

1. TO BE · −46.38
2. SAYANN · −35.65
3. SOUTH KENSINGTON · −33.35
Cohort 93 boats

Crew Residual — sec/nm

1. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES · 258.16
2. ASELL · 249.01
3. KUNDALINI · 243.02
Cohort 93 boats

Sail Drive Index

1. FREMITO D'ARJA · 52.0
2. B.LEX · 45.0
3. NIGHT SHADOW · 44.0
Cohort 88 boats

Upwind VMG — 12 kt, kn

1. MUSICA · 7.00
2. SPIRIT OF LORINA II · 6.94
3. SUMMER STORM · 6.93
Cohort 93 boats

Downwind VMG — 12 kt, kn

1. ROCKETNIKKA · 8.65
2. SUMMER STORM · 8.60
3. BLUE MOON · 8.58
Cohort 93 boats

RM / Displacement — ratio

1. MUSICA · 61.19
2. SPIRIT OF LORINA II · 58.87
3. BLUE MOON · 58.20
Cohort 93 boats
Stories

What the fleet tells us.

Championship Citation

RAN — ORC World Champion, Class A.

SWE-41 RAN (Carkeek 40+, AEROBLADE) won Class A at the 2026 ORC World Championship in Sorrento with 16.5 points — the second consecutive Class A title for the Swedish program, following the 12-point win at Tallinn 2025. The Carkeek-designed grand-prix 40-footer reads AEROBLADE in the current fleet classification — the light-and-agile family that brings quick acceleration and flat-water speed to the championship circuit. The program now carries the only back-to-back Class A title in the fleet across two consecutive ORC World Championship editions.

  • RAN 2026 Class A: 1st · 16.5 pts · Sorrento
  • RAN 2025 Class A: 1st · 12 pts · Tallinn
  • Archetype: AEROBLADE · Carkeek 40+
Complete data ORC Worlds 2026
Multi-Champion Cluster

Two archetypes, four trophies: Sorrento splits AEROBLADE and DEEPFRAME.

The 2026 ORC World Championship class winners are evenly split between two archetypes. AEROBLADE took Class 0 with SUMMER STORM (USA, TP-52, 18.5 pts) and Class A with RAN (Sweden, Carkeek 40+, 16.5 pts). DEEPFRAME took Class B with KATARA (Argentina, Pg-390, 18 pts) and Class C with ROBE DA MAT (Italy, Mat-11, 19 pts). Two light-and-agile platforms in the bigger-boat classes, two deep-hull efficiency platforms in the mid-size and sportboat classes — the trophy distribution mirrors the fleet’s top-two archetypes (AEROBLADE 20.3% + DEEPFRAME 18.7% = 39.0% of the 370-boat baseline). No AEROMAX, IRONWIND, or GLIDEFORM on the top step at Sorrento.

  • Class 0: SUMMER STORM (TP-52, USA) · AEROBLADE
  • Class A: RAN (Carkeek 40+, SWE) · AEROBLADE
  • Class B: KATARA (Pg-390, ARG) · DEEPFRAME
  • Class C: ROBE DA MAT (Mat-11, ITA) · DEEPFRAME
Complete data ORC Worlds 2026
Composition Shift

The Sorrento entry list tilted hard toward AEROBLADE.

AEROBLADE carries 20.3% of the world fleet baseline — but 44.1% of the Sorrento race group (41 of 93 boats). The light-and-agile family more than doubled its share when the championship entry list formed, and DEEPFRAME edged up too (18.7% fleet → 21.5% race, 20 boats). The shift came at the expense of the rough-water and downwind families: STORMLINE thinned to 2.2% of the entry list, GLIDEFORM to 6.5%, and KEELFLEX to a single boat. The teams that travel to a Mediterranean May championship self-select toward quick-accelerating flat-water platforms — the composition of the entry list is itself a read on what the venue rewards.

  • AEROBLADE: 20.3% fleet → 44.1% race (41 of 93)
  • DEEPFRAME: 18.7% fleet → 21.5% race (20 of 93)
  • STORMLINE → 2.2% · GLIDEFORM → 6.5% · KEELFLEX → 1 boat
Complete data ORC Worlds 2026
Magnitude Gap

TO BE: nearly 11 sec/nm clear of the field on corrected allowance.

TO BE (DEEPFRAME) leads the Sorrento race group’s corrected-allowance board at −46.38 sec/nm against the ORC median — 10.7 sec/nm clear of runner-up SAYANN (−35.65, GRAVITYRUN). Over the 130nm Tre Golfi offshore opener alone, that margin compounds to more than 23 minutes of corrected time on the runner-up. Third-placed SOUTH KENSINGTON (−33.35, AEROMAX) completes a podium drawn from three different archetype families — the allowance leaders at Sorrento were not the trophy winners, a reminder that the championship scoring rewarded consistency across 32 starts rather than single-dimension pace.

  • TO BE: −46.38 sec/nm · DEEPFRAME
  • SAYANN: −35.65 sec/nm · GRAVITYRUN
  • Gap to runner-up: 10.7 sec/nm
Complete data ORC Worlds 2026
Race Archetypes

93 boats classified in the 2026 ORC World Championship.

Archetypes as published 2026-06-08 — the FleetEdge view nearest this event.

Of the boats that contested Sorrento, 93 carry a FleetEdge archetype assignment at this vintage. AEROBLADE dominates the entry list well above its fleet baseline, with DEEPFRAME a clear second. The distribution below is the FleetEdge view published nearest the championship.

AEROBLADE

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

Boats 41
Share 44.1%

DEEPFRAME

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

Boats 20
Share 21.5%

GRAVITYRUN

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

Boats 11
Share 11.8%

GLIDEFORM

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

Boats 6
Share 6.5%

STEELFORM

Heavy-displacement hull with strong directional stability.

Boats 5
Share 5.4%

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

Boats 3
Share 3.2%

HEADFORCE

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

Boats 2
Share 2.2%

STORMLINE

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

Boats 2
Share 2.2%

AEROMAX

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

Boats 1
Share 1.1%

STEELCORE

The rigid-platform core

Boats 1
Share 1.1%

KEELFLEX

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

Boats 1
Share 1.1%
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ORC Worlds 2026 — Sorrento

The marquee event of the current published data — 93 entries, four championship classes, two archetypes on the top step.

ORC Worlds 2025 — Tallinn

The 2025 edition — 61 entries on the Baltic across three classes. RAN’s first Class A title.

Baltic Offshore

The Nordic championship feeder fleet — the structural counterweight to the Mediterranean half of the world fleet.

Italy ORC

The Mediterranean center of gravity — the largest national contingent in the world fleet flies Italian sail prefixes.

Fleet Archetypes

The FleetEdge archetype framework — the 11 performance archetypes.

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