ORC World Fleet

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

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482 boats 110 events 1,038 races 1,237 obs International event fleet · as of 2026-08-20
Kinship

Every fleet’s waters hold their own story.

From Sorrento to Tallinn, Annapolis to Capri — find your championship 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 World Fleet races, before the results arrive.
Character

The world-traveling fleet. 482 boats that pack passports.

The ORC World Fleet is FleetEdge’s international-travelers fleet — 482 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. One hundred and ten events and 1,038 races let you compare boats across countries and events on this hub.

The world fleet is broad-spectrum by archetype — no single hull family commands the circuit. AEROSTREAM leads at 29.7% (143 boats), AEROCORE follows at 16.2% (78), and LEANRUN sits third at 14.9% (72). The lead is real — close to fourteen points over second — but even the leader holds under a third of the fleet, and the archetypes behind the leading trio run from 9.8% down to 3.5%, four of them inside two points of one another. That is the shape worth noticing: no long thin tail, but a graded field where seven of the eight archetypes carry meaningful weight. The trophy hunters of the international circuit do not all look the same: towering-rig upwind-power platforms, large upright hulls carrying generous proportion at the tender end of the stiffness range, low-proportion large platforms that trade sail-carrying power for waterline efficiency, compact stiff-reserve hulls, and high-efficiency running 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: AEROSTREAM took Classes 0 (SUMMER STORM, TP-52) and A (RAN, Carkeek 40+); AEROCORE 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.

Global fleet view · 482 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet DNA

How the ORC World Fleet is built.

482 boats in the fleet. 479 ORC-rated and 3 mapped IRC entries attributed across 8 performance archetypes.

The ORC World Fleet Signature

The ORC World Fleet is a broad-spectrum collective — eight archetypes carry structural weight, and no single hull family commands the circuit. AEROSTREAM leads at 29.7% (143 boats) — the towering-scale, level-trimming upwind-power family that brings TP-52s, Farr 40s, and grand-prix rig drive to the international circuit. AEROCORE follows at 16.2% (78 boats) — the large-platform school at the tender end of the stiffness range, the shape that rewards crews willing to sail a powerful hull on its ear. LEANRUN sits third at 14.9% (72 boats) — the large, upright, low-proportion family of the First 36.7 and J-109 lineage that fills championship entry lists, downwind-neutral in banked race evidence. Together the top three carry 60.8% of the fleet, but the leader is still short of a third on its own — a broad leading band rather than the two-archetype concentration seen in narrower national fleets. Behind them the field is unusually even: HEFTLINE at 9.8% (47 boats), LEANFORCE at 9.5% (46 boats), AEROFORCE at 8.5% (41 boats), and KEELRUN at 7.9% (38 boats) sit within 1.9 points of one another, with SPARKFLEX at 3.5% (17 boats) closing the distribution. There is no thin tail here — every hull family on the platform arrives at the international circuit in numbers.

  • AEROSTREAM 29.7% · 143 boats
  • AEROCORE 16.2% · 78 boats
  • LEANRUN 14.9% · 72 boats

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

Farr Design leads the designer signature at 13.5% (65 boats), ahead of the X-Yachts drawing board at 11.4% (55 boats). Judel-Vrolijk heads the second rank, with Polli next and Frers, Johnstone, and Mills level behind them, and the long tail spreads across Humphreys, Carkeek, Botin, and Cossutti drawing boards. Top classes: X-41 (17), TP-52 (15), First 40.7 (11), First 34.7 (10), Italia 11.98 (9). The marquee event of the current published data is the 2026 ORC World Championship at Sorrento (101 fleet boats in the race group).

Complete data Latest published view

The full distribution across all 11 measured slots.

AEROCORE

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

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 78
Share 16.2%
  • First 36
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • J-120

HEFTLINE

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

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 47
Share 9.8%
  • J-111
  • Farr 30
  • Cape 31

AEROSTREAM

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

strong upwind · weak reaching · strong downwind

Boats 143
Share 29.7%
  • TP-52
  • XP-44
  • Farr 40

LEANRUN

Large scale · upright posture — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 72
Share 14.9%
  • First 36.7
  • J-109
  • First 35

KEELRUN

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

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 38
Share 7.9%
  • First 31.7
  • J-105
  • Sunfast 3200

SPARKFLEX

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

weak upwind · moderate reaching · weak downwind

Boats 17
Share 3.5%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • J-70 ONE DESIGN

AEROFORCE

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

neutral upwind · weak reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 41
Share 8.5%
  • First 40.7
  • X-43
  • Grand Soleil 40

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

weak upwind · neutral reaching · weak downwind

Boats 46
Share 9.5%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Mat 10.10
  • Aphrodite 101

AEROSTREAM, AEROCORE, and LEANRUN — the leading trio — together carry 60.8% in a broad leading band, but the fleet spreads across all eight archetypes — the international championship circuit attracts a wider hull range than any single national fleet because each venue rewards a different condition mix. Upwind-biased championship courses bring AEROSTREAM, AEROCORE, and AEROFORCE forward; rough-water legs where stiffness reserve pays elevate HEFTLINE and LEANFORCE; KEELRUN, LEANRUN, and SPARKFLEX hold their share wherever the course mix evens out.

The eight archetype names are the current census; the grid above resolves them across the eleven measured slots, which is why two cards can carry the same name. How eleven resolved into eight →

Event cohort view · 101 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Featured Events

The championships the world fleet contests.

Across the 110-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

101 fleet boats · 8–14 May 2026 · Bay of Naples, Italy. The marquee outcome of the current published data — four championship classes, four trophies split between AEROSTREAM and AEROCORE. Selected as the lens for this hub’s race-result section below.

Garmin ORC World Championships 2025 — Tallinn

61 fleet boats · 11–16 August 2025 · Baltic Sea, Estonia. Two class titles stand in the current published standings: RAN (AEROSTREAM) took Class A and FORMULA X (AEROCORE) took Class B — archetypes read at the FleetEdge view published nearest the event.

ORC Double Handed World Championship 2024

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

ORC European Championship 2024

52 fleet boats · 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

33 fleet boats · 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.

101 of 482 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. The four trophies split: AEROSTREAM in Classes 0 (SUMMER STORM, TP-52) and A (RAN, Carkeek 40+); AEROCORE in Classes B (KATARA, Pg-390) and C (ROBE DA MAT, Mat-11). The entry list tilted hard toward AEROSTREAM — 43.6% of the classified race group against a 29.7% fleet baseline — and two AEROSTREAM trophies from the race group it already led is consistent with that tilt.

Headlines

Dimension leaders — the Sorrento race group at the ORC World Championship 2026 (8–14 May 2026).

Allowance is FleetEdge’s Comparative Time read: 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 (stronger execution); positive = below that baseline. “Obs” are boat-event pairs.

Allowance — sec/nm vs ORC

1. MELAGODO · −20.93
2. CATTIVA COMPAGNIA · −18.12
3. LADY DAY 998 · −17.44
Cohort 101 boats

Crew Residual — sec/nm

1. MELAGODO · −17.15
2. Nitro · +15.62
3. WANAX · +25.73
Cohort 101 boats

Sail Drive Index

1. INTERLODGE 44 & FREMITO D’ARJA · 40
2. DJANGO JP & KILARA II · 39
3. ROCKETNIKKA & VUDU · 39
Cohort 101 boats

Upwind VMG — 12 kt, kn

1. MUSICA · 7.00
2. DJANGO WR · 6.97
3. SPIRIT OF LORINA II · 6.94
Cohort 101 boats

Downwind VMG — 12 kt, kn

1. ROCKETNIKKA · 8.65
2. KILARA II · 8.61
3. SUMMER STORM & FINAL FINAL · 8.60
Cohort 101 boats

RM / Displacement — ratio

1. MUSICA · 61.19
2. SPIRIT OF LORINA II · 58.87
3. BLUE MOON · 58.20
Cohort 101 boats
Stories

What the fleet tells us.

Championship Citation

RAN — ORC World Champion, Class A.

SWE-41 RAN (Carkeek 40+, AEROSTREAM) 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 AEROSTREAM at the FleetEdge analysis published nearest the event — the towering-scale upwind-power family that brings the fleet’s strongest rig-driven VMG to the championship circuit. Across the two published Worlds editions, no other program in the fleet repeated a class win.

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

Four trophies: AEROSTREAM and AEROCORE split Sorrento’s top steps.

The 2026 ORC World Championship class winners come from AEROSTREAM and AEROCORE — two trophies each. AEROSTREAM took Class 0 with SUMMER STORM (USA, TP-52, 18.5 pts) and Class A with RAN (Sweden, Carkeek 40+, 16.5 pts) — both big-boat titles to towering-scale upwind-power platforms. AEROCORE took Class B with KATARA (Argentina, Pg-390, 18 pts) and Class C with ROBE DA MAT (Italy, Mat-11, 19 pts) — the upright-posture family with a measured downwind advantage in banked race evidence. A title run that tracks the race group’s tilt: AEROSTREAM carried 43.6% of the classified entry against a 29.7% share of the 482-boat fleet baseline. No LEANRUN or HEFTLINE — the fleet’s third and fourth families — on the top step at Sorrento.

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

The Sorrento entry list tilted hard toward AEROSTREAM.

AEROSTREAM carries 29.7% of the world fleet baseline — but 43.6% of the Sorrento race group (44 of 101 classified boats). The upwind-power family lifted its share by nearly fourteen points when the championship entry list formed, while the families directly behind it in the fleet held their weight almost exactly: AEROCORE 16.2% fleet to 15.8% race (16 boats), LEANRUN 14.9% to 14.9% (15 boats). The concentration came at the expense of the tail — HEFTLINE thinned from 9.8% of the fleet baseline to 5.9% of the race group (6 boats), LEANFORCE from 9.5% to 6.9% (7 boats), KEELRUN from 7.9% to 4.0% (4 boats), and SPARKFLEX, 3.5% of the fleet, is absent from the classified race group entirely. Only AEROFORCE gained ground behind the leader, 8.5% to 8.9% (9 boats). The teams that travel to a Mediterranean May championship self-select toward rig-driven grand-prix platforms — the composition of the entry list is itself a read on what the venue rewards.

  • AEROSTREAM: 29.7% fleet → 43.6% race (44 of 101)
  • AEROCORE: 16.2% → 15.8% · LEANRUN: 14.9% → 14.9%
  • HEFTLINE: 9.8% → 5.9% · LEANFORCE: 9.5% → 6.9% · KEELRUN: 7.9% → 4.0% · SPARKFLEX: absent from the race group
Complete data ORC Worlds 2026
Magnitude Gap

MELAGODO: more than 76 sec/nm clear of the field median on corrected allowance.

MELAGODO (LEANFORCE) leads the Sorrento race group’s corrected-allowance board at −20.93 sec/nm — 2.8 sec/nm clear of runner-up CATTIVA COMPAGNIA (−18.12, AEROCORE) and more than 76 sec/nm clear of the field median of +55.63. Only 12 of the 101 classified boats finished the championship faster than their rating expects; third-placed LADY DAY 998 (−17.44, HEFTLINE) completes the podium — each step held by a different archetype. 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.

  • MELAGODO: −20.93 sec/nm · LEANFORCE
  • CATTIVA COMPAGNIA: −18.12 sec/nm · AEROCORE
  • Field median: +55.63 sec/nm · 101 boats
Complete data ORC Worlds 2026
Race Archetypes

101 boats classified in the 2026 ORC World Championship.

Archetype assignments dated 2026-08-20 — the FleetEdge analysis nearest this event.

Of the boats that contested Sorrento, 101 carry a FleetEdge archetype assignment at this vintage. AEROSTREAM holds the leading share of the race group, well above its fleet baseline, with AEROCORE second and LEANRUN third. The distribution below is the FleetEdge view published nearest the championship.

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 44
Share 43.6%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 16
Share 15.8%

LEANRUN

Large scale · upright posture — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 15
Share 14.9%

AEROFORCE

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

Boats 9
Share 8.9%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 7
Share 6.9%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 6
Share 5.9%

KEELRUN

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

Boats 4
Share 4.0%

Classified fleet view · 482 of 482 classified · as of 2026-08-20

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 13.5% (65 boats), ahead of the X-Yachts drawing board at 11.4% (55 boats). The 13.5% 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, barely two points behind, and the second rank (Judel-Vrolijk, then Polli, with Frers, Johnstone, and Mills exactly level behind them) is unusually deep. The world fleet is one of the most designer-diverse fleets on the platform — no single drawing board owns the international championship circuit.

  • Farr Design: 65 boats · 13.5%
  • X-Yachts drawing board: 55 boats · 11.4%
  • Deep second rank: Judel-Vrolijk, Polli, then Frers, Johnstone, and Mills level
Complete data FleetEdge fleet-wide data
Archetype Density

AEROSTREAM leads the world fleet — but the bench runs eight deep.

AEROSTREAM leads the world fleet at 29.7% (143 of 482 classified boats), with AEROCORE second at 16.2% (78) and LEANRUN third at 14.9% (72). AEROSTREAM is the towering-scale upwind-power family — the TP-52, Farr 40, and grand-prix rig-drive lineage that anchors championship entry lists. The lead is real but far from commanding: the top three carry 60.8% combined, the leader holds under a third of the fleet on its own, and the field behind them runs from 9.8% down to 3.5% with no thin tail beneath. The world fleet is one of the most archetype-diverse fleets 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.

  • AEROSTREAM: 143 boats · 29.7%
  • AEROCORE: 78 boats · 16.2%
  • LEANRUN: 72 boats · 14.9%
Complete data FleetEdge fleet-wide data
Popular Classes

The boats that define ORC world-championship racing.

X-41 (17)

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.

TP-52 (15)

The grand-prix 52-footer — Botin and Judel-Vrolijk designs that anchor the big-boat classes of the championship circuit, including the Class 0 winner at Sorrento.

First 40.7 (11)

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

First 34.7 (10)

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

Italia 11.98 (9)

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.

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ORC Worlds 2026 — Sorrento

The marquee event of the current published data — four championship classes.

ORC Worlds 2025 — Tallinn

The 2025 edition on the Baltic — where RAN’s Class A run began.

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 — how the hull families are defined, and how eleven measured slots resolved into the current census.

All Countries

The 29-country index — explore each national contingent that feeds the international championship circuit.

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