ORC World Fleet

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

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369 boats 81 events 904 races 856 obs International event fleet · as of 2026-07-10
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. 369 boats that pack passports.

The ORC World Fleet is FleetEdge’s international-travelers fleet — 369 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. Eighty-one events, 904 races, and 856 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 commands the circuit. AEROBLADE leads at 21.7% (80 boats), DEEPFRAME follows close behind at 17.6% (65), and AEROMAX sits third at 14.9% (55). The top three are unusually tight — just under seven 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.

369 boats in the fleet. 369 classified across 11 archetypes.

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 21.7% (80 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 17.6% (65 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 54.2% of the fleet, separated by fewer than seven points — a flatter leading band than the two-archetype concentration seen in narrower national fleets. The downwind-power pair follows: GRAVITYRUN carries 12.7% (47 boats) and GLIDEFORM 12.5% (46 boats). Behind them, IRONWIND at 4.6% (17 boats), KEELFLEX at 4.6% (17 boats), STEELCORE at 4.3% (16 boats), STORMLINE at 3.0% (11 boats), HEADFORCE at 2.2% (8 boats), and STEELFORM at 1.9% (7 boats) spread the remaining structural weight across every hull family on the platform.

  • AEROBLADE 21.7% · 80 boats
  • DEEPFRAME 17.6% · 65 boats
  • AEROMAX 14.9% · 55 boats

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

Farr Design leads the designer signature at 14.6% (54 boats), narrowly ahead of the X-Yachts drawing board at 12.7% (47 boats). Johnstone heads the second rank at 5.1%, with Polli, Frers, Judel-Vrolijk, and Mills at 3–5% each, and the long tail spreads across Carkeek, Botin, Humphreys, Finot, and Cossutti drawing boards. Top classes: X-41 (11), 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 (92 fleet boats in the race group).

Complete data Latest published view

The full 11-archetype distribution.

AEROBLADE

High-efficiency rig with sharp heel sensitivity and rapid trim response.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 80
Share 21.7%
  • TP-52
  • Farr 40
  • XP-44

DEEPFRAME

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 65
Share 17.6%
  • J-109
  • First 36
  • J-120

AEROMAX

Upwind-power specialist with the fleet's strongest rig-driven VMG.

strong upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 55
Share 14.9%
  • First 40.7
  • First 40
  • Grand Soleil 40

GRAVITYRUN

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 47
Share 12.7%
  • First 36.7
  • First 34.7
  • X-332

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull delivering smooth, efficient downwind acceleration.

weak upwind · moderate reaching · strong downwind

Boats 46
Share 12.5%
  • J-105
  • J-99
  • Farr 30

IRONWIND

Stiff, stable-drive platform with predictable load behavior.

moderate upwind · moderate reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 17
Share 4.6%
  • J-80 OD
  • J-24
  • Melges 24 OD

KEELFLEX

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

neutral upwind · moderate reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 17
Share 4.6%
  • First 31.7
  • Express
  • First 31.7 LR

STEELCORE

Central, stiff rigid-platform hull — stability-positive, hull-form-dominant, low heel-sensitivity.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · neutral downwind

Boats 16
Share 4.3%
  • Sunfast 37
  • Dufour 40
  • Grand Soleil 37 BC

STORMLINE

High-power, heel-sensitive platform with explosive potential when sailed flat.

moderate upwind · strong reaching · moderate downwind

Boats 11
Share 3.0%
  • Comfortina 32
  • Fenix
  • Aphrodite 101

HEADFORCE

Upwind-biased pressure boat driving compact rigs through higher-drag hull forms.

strong upwind · weak reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 8
Share 2.2%
  • Fortuna 9
  • Miura
  • Elan 333

STEELFORM

Compact-rig, rigid platform delivering consistent, low-variance results.

neutral upwind · neutral reaching · VMG downwind

Boats 7
Share 1.9%
  • Bavaria CR 46
  • Dufour 41 Performance
  • Hanse 400 E

The top three archetypes (AEROBLADE, DEEPFRAME, AEROMAX) together carry 54.2% 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 14.6% (54 boats), narrowly ahead of the X-Yachts drawing board at 12.7% (47 boats). The 14.6% 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 second rank (Johnstone at 5.1%, then Polli, Frers, Judel-Vrolijk, and Mills at 3–5% each) 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: 54 boats · 14.6%
  • X-Yachts drawing board: 47 boats · 12.7%
  • Johnstone 5.1% · 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 21.7% (80 of 369 classified boats), with DEEPFRAME a close second at 17.6% (65) 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 54.2% combined and are separated by just under seven points, and eight more archetypes spread the remaining 45.8% across every hull family on the platform. 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.

  • AEROBLADE: 80 boats · 21.7%
  • DEEPFRAME: 65 boats · 17.6%
  • AEROMAX: 55 boats · 14.9%
Complete data FleetEdge fleet-wide data
Popular Classes

The boats that define ORC world-championship racing.

X-41 (11)

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 81-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

92 fleet boats · 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 fleet boats · 11–16 August 2025 · Baltic Sea, Estonia. Three classes in the published standings: RAN (DEEPFRAME) took Class A, FORMULA X (DEEPFRAME) took Class B, and Garmin Team Pro4u (AEROMAX) took Class C — archetypes read at the FleetEdge view published nearest the event.

ORC Double Handed World Championship 2024

58 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

51 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

34 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.

92 of 369 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 92-boat Sorrento race group.

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 92 boats

Crew Residual — sec/nm

1. SUMMER STORM · +40.88
2. VUDU · +47.69
3. ROCKETNIKKA · +47.87
Cohort 92 boats

Sail Drive Index

1. FREMITO D'ARJA · 35
2. NIGHT SHADOW · 34
3. ROCKETNIKKA & QQ7 · 33
Cohort 92 boats

Upwind VMG — 12 kt, kn

1. MUSICA · 7.00
2. SPIRIT OF LORINA II · 6.94
3. SUMMER STORM · 6.93
Cohort 92 boats

Downwind VMG — 12 kt, kn

1. ROCKETNIKKA · 8.65
2. SUMMER STORM · 8.60
3. FINAL FINAL · 8.60
Cohort 92 boats

RM / Displacement — ratio

1. MUSICA · 61.19
2. SPIRIT OF LORINA II · 58.87
3. BLUE MOON · 58.20
Cohort 92 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 21.7% + DEEPFRAME 17.6% = 39.3% of the 369-boat baseline). No AEROMAX, GRAVITYRUN, 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 21.7% of the world fleet baseline — but 33.7% of the Sorrento race group (31 of 92 classified boats). The light-and-agile family widened its lead when the championship entry list formed, and the other two leading families edged up too: DEEPFRAME from 17.6% fleet to 19.6% race (18 boats) and AEROMAX from 14.9% to 18.5% (17 boats). The concentration came at the expense of the tail — IRONWIND, KEELFLEX, STORMLINE, and STEELFORM, 14.1% of the fleet baseline between them, are absent from the classified race group entirely, and GLIDEFORM thinned from 12.5% to 9.8%. 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: 21.7% fleet → 33.7% race (31 of 92)
  • DEEPFRAME: 17.6% → 19.6% · AEROMAX: 14.9% → 18.5%
  • IRONWIND · KEELFLEX · STORMLINE · STEELFORM: absent from the race group
Complete data ORC Worlds 2026
Magnitude Gap

MELAGODO: nearly 75 sec/nm clear of the field median on corrected allowance.

MELAGODO (GRAVITYRUN) 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, DEEPFRAME) and nearly 75 sec/nm clear of the 92-boat field median of +53.69. Only 12 of the 92 classified boats finished the championship faster than their rating expects; third-placed LADY DAY 998 (−17.44, DEEPFRAME) completes a podium drawn from two 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.

  • MELAGODO: −20.93 sec/nm · GRAVITYRUN
  • CATTIVA COMPAGNIA: −18.12 sec/nm · DEEPFRAME
  • Field median: +53.69 sec/nm · 92 boats
Complete data ORC Worlds 2026
Race Archetypes

92 boats classified in the 2026 ORC World Championship.

Archetypes as published 2026-07-10 — the FleetEdge view nearest this event.

Of the boats that contested Sorrento, 92 carry a FleetEdge archetype assignment at this vintage. AEROBLADE holds the leading share of the race group, well above its fleet baseline, with DEEPFRAME second and AEROMAX close behind. The distribution below is the FleetEdge view published nearest the championship.

AEROBLADE

High-efficiency rig with sharp heel sensitivity and rapid trim response.

Boats 31
Share 33.7%

DEEPFRAME

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

Boats 18
Share 19.6%

AEROMAX

Upwind-power specialist with the fleet's strongest rig-driven VMG.

Boats 17
Share 18.5%

GRAVITYRUN

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

Boats 11
Share 12.0%

GLIDEFORM

Low-drag hull delivering smooth, efficient downwind acceleration.

Boats 9
Share 9.8%

HEADFORCE

Upwind-biased pressure boat driving compact rigs through higher-drag hull forms.

Boats 3
Share 3.3%

STEELCORE

Central, stiff rigid-platform hull — stability-positive, hull-form-dominant, low heel-sensitivity.

Boats 3
Share 3.3%
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Go deeper.

ORC Worlds 2026 — Sorrento

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

ORC Worlds 2025 — Tallinn

The 2025 edition on the Baltic — three classes, three trophies. 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.

All Countries

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

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