2025 ORC World Championship

Tallinn, Baltic Sea — 11–16 August 2025

Baltic ORC Championship
61 boats 8 nations 3 classes 21 races International event fleet · as of 2026-08-20
Kinship

The Baltic delegation that filled Tallinn 2025.

Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, and Poland — eight Baltic-bordering nations supplied every one of the 61 boats in the comparative race group. Estonia alone sent 22 of them.

 Hidden Shape

Two published class titles.
AEROSTREAM / AEROCORE.

What fair rating looks like when two different archetypes take the two class titles the published standings carry — on one championship week, under one rating regime.
Character

One week on the Baltic. Three classes. Two class titles.

The 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship at Tallinn drew a 64-boat entry list to the Baltic for 21 races between 11 and 16 August 2025, and 61 of those boats reached the FleetEdge comparative race group. Of the 61, 55 hold a championship class series standing — Class A with 7 boats, B with 18, C with 30 — while the remaining six carry race observations under separate scoring lines outside the three class series. The classes raced a mixed program of offshore legs and windward-leeward courses, with ToT weather-routed allowances on the offshore races and PCS constructed-course allowances on the inshore program. Tallinn was a production racer-cruiser championship at Baltic scale — smaller than Sorrento 2026, tighter in flag concentration, and structurally different in the hulls that filled the entry list.

Two class titles are published, and they went to two different archetypes. RAN (SWE-41, Carkeek 40+) took Class A with 12 points, the lowest total in the seven-boat class standings — AEROSTREAM in the archetype view published nearest the event, the towering-scale, level-posture platform. FORMULA X (DEN-1, Xr-41) took Class B with 9 points across 18 boats — AEROCORE, the large-scale upright platform that the X-Yachts line brings to this circuit. Class C, the championship’s largest standings at 30 boats, carries no first-place row in the current published view; the lowest points total it does carry is SHADOW's 19 (EST-646, Arcona 340, AEROCORE). Two titles, two flags — Sweden and Denmark — scored under one rating regime in one week.

The entry list was Estonian-led, Baltic-shaped, and built around production racer-cruisers. 22 of the 61 comparative boats carried Estonian sail numbers (36%), 12 came from Finland, and Lithuania, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, and Poland filled the rest — eight nations, every one of them on the Baltic. The popular classes — First 34.7, X-41, Xr-41, First 35, First 36.7 — are the production grand-prix and racer-cruiser hulls of the European mainstream, not the TP-52 / Swan 45 championship-grade roster that defined Sorrento. Tallinn 2025 was a world championship contested on the boats that actually populate the Baltic offshore circuit, and the two published titles landed on the families that field those boats at the sharp end.

Event cohort view · 61 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Selected Race Result

2025 ORC World Championship — Classes A, B, C.

61 boats of the 64-strong entry list reached the comparative-data race group across 21 races. Of those 61, 55 hold a championship class series standing — Class A with 7 boats, B with 18, C with 30 — while the remaining six carry race observations under separate scoring lines outside the three class series. Scoring: ToT weather-routed allowance on the offshore legs, PCS constructed-course allowance on the windward-leeward program. 11–16 August 2025.

Headlines

Dimension leaders — Tallinn race group.

Comparative Time: negative = faster than the rating expects — the boat beat its rating; positive = slower. The board runs most-negative-first, scored across the Tallinn week only, and at this published view exactly two of the 61 boats in the race group finished under their rating expectation. RM / Displacement and the two VMG boards are certificate-derived and run highest-first.

Comparative Time — sec/nm vs ORC

1. FORMULA X · −14.57
2. RAN · −10.01
3. EXCITER · 3.15
Cohort 61 boats

RM / Displacement — ratio

1. STOERTEBEKER · 52.18
2. RAN · 48.29
3. CHACAL · 42.55
Cohort 61 boats

Upwind VMG — 12 kt, kn

1. STOERTEBEKER · 6.49
2. RAN · 6.28
3. MATADOR · 6.15
Cohort 61 boats

Downwind VMG — 12 kt, kn

1. STOERTEBEKER · 8.07
2. RAN · 7.88
3. CHACAL · 7.72
Cohort 61 boats
Stories

What happened in Tallinn.

Championship Citation

RAN — ORC World Champion, Class A.

SWE-41 RAN (Carkeek 40+, AEROSTREAM) won Class A at the 2025 ORC World Championship in Tallinn with 12 points across the offshore-and-windward-leeward program — 1st of 7 boats in the top class standings, and the lowest points total any Class A boat carries in the published series. Niklas Zennström’s Swedish program led Mercedes-Benz (FIN-69996, GP-42, AEROSTREAM, 15 pts) by 3 points and Clean Energy (EST-44, E-44, AEROCORE, 22 pts) by 10 points. RAN sat 2nd of 61 in Comparative Time (−10.01 sec/nm — one of only two boats in the whole race group to finish under its rating expectation), 2nd in RM / Displacement (48.29), 2nd in Upwind VMG-12kt (6.28 kn) and 2nd in Downwind VMG-12kt (7.88 kn) — a Headlines presence on every board that matched the score line. In the archetype view published nearest the event, five of the seven Class A boats read AEROSTREAM — the towering-scale, level-posture family that fills the top of a Baltic championship.

  • RAN Class A: 1st of 7 · 12 pts
  • 2nd: Mercedes-Benz (GP-42, AEROSTREAM, FIN) · 15 pts
  • 3rd: Clean Energy (E-44, AEROCORE, EST) · 22 pts
Complete data ORC Worlds 2025
Championship Citation

FORMULA X — ORC World Champion, Class B.

DEN-1 FORMULA X (Xr-41 by X-Yachts, AEROCORE) won Class B with 9 points across the 21-race program — 1st of 18 boats in the middle-class standings, and the lowest points total on the published Class B series. The Danish program led DIXI 5 (DEN-4100, Xr-41, AEROCORE, 14 pts) by 5 points, with the championship grid favoring X-Yachts production speed throughout the top of the class — EXCITER (GER-8696, Xr-41, AEROCORE) finished 4th with 22.5 pts. FORMULA X also led the 61-boat race group’s Comparative Time board at −14.57 sec/nm — the deepest reading of the week, 4.56 sec/nm clear of second-placed RAN, and one of only two boats in the entire race group to finish under its rating expectation. The crew that won the trophy also topped the comparative board. Class B was effectively an Xr-41 class regatta inside the Worlds.

  • FORMULA X Class B: 1st of 18 · 9 pts
  • 2nd: DIXI 5 (Xr-41, AEROCORE, DEN) · 14 pts
  • 4th: EXCITER (Xr-41, AEROCORE, GER) · 22.5 pts
Complete data ORC Worlds 2025
Nationality / Class Cluster

Class C: thirty boats, and an Estonian-Finnish grid.

Class C was the championship’s largest standings at 30 boats — and 22 of them, more than seven in ten, came from Estonia (14) and Finland (8), with Lithuania (4), Latvia (2), Sweden (1), and Poland (1) filling the rest. No single class at Tallinn concentrated a home region this hard. Structurally it is the mirror of Class A: where five of the seven Class A boats read AEROSTREAM, Class C spreads out in the view published nearest the event, led by LEANFORCE at 12 of 30 and LEANRUN at 9, with AEROCORE (4), KEELRUN (3), and HEFTLINE (2) behind them — the mid-size production racer-cruiser end of the Baltic circuit, where no one design answer dominates. The published Class C series in the current view carries no first-place row; the lowest points total it does carry is SHADOW’s 19 (EST-646, Arcona 340, AEROCORE), ahead of Cheyenne (SWE-622, Farr 30, KEELRUN, 20 pts) and SUGAR (EST-774, Italia 9.98 F, LEANFORCE, 21 pts).

  • Class C size: 30 boats · EST 14 · FIN 8 · LTU 4
  • Lead archetype: LEANFORCE 12 of 30
  • Lowest published points total: SHADOW (Arcona 340, AEROCORE, EST) · 19 pts — no first-place row published
Partial data ORC Worlds 2025
Multi-Champion Cluster

Two titles, two flags.

The two class titles the 2025 ORC World Championship publishes come from two flags — RAN (Class A, Sweden, AEROSTREAM) and FORMULA X (Class B, Denmark, AEROCORE). A towering-rig, level-posture 40-footer took the top class; a large-scale, upright-posture production hull took the middle one. They are not the same answer to the same rating rule — and neither sits at the fleet’s own center of gravity, where LEANRUN carries 15 of the 61 boats. Two different design strategies, two different classes, one week, one rating regime: that is the signal an ORC World Championship exists to test, and it holds even with the third class standings incomplete in the current published view.

  • Class A: RAN (Carkeek 40+, AEROSTREAM, SWE) · 12 pts · 1st of 7
  • Class B: FORMULA X (Xr-41, AEROCORE, DEN) · 9 pts · 1st of 18
  • Class C: no first-place row published in the current view
Complete data ORC Worlds 2025
Performance Verdict

RAN carries a first-place series row at both editions.

SWE-41 RAN raced the 2025 Worlds at Tallinn and the 2026 Worlds at Sorrento on the same Carkeek 40+ hull, and holds a first-place row in the published standings at each of them — Class A at Tallinn on 12 points, and a first place on 16.5 points at Sorrento. Niklas Zennström’s program is one of very few in the FleetEdge record to do that at consecutive World Championships. The two weeks could hardly have been more different: a Baltic race group built from production racer-cruisers, then a Mediterranean race group built around TP-52s and Swan 45s. The rating read the boat consistently through both — 2nd of 61 in Comparative Time at Tallinn at −10.01 sec/nm, and mid-field at Sorrento at 46th percentile of 101, a race group whose whole comparative distribution sits far slower against rating than Tallinn’s. The archetype view published nearest each event reads the boat the same way both times: AEROSTREAM. Same hull, same crew, two fields, one consistent read — which is what the ORC promise is asking for.

  • RAN 2025 (Tallinn): 1st of 7 Class A · 12 pts · 2nd of 61 Comparative Time
  • RAN 2026 (Sorrento): 1st place row · 16.5 pts · 46th percentile of 101
  • Archetype at both editions: AEROSTREAM
Complete data ORC Worlds 2025
Nationality / Class Cluster

The Xr-41 Class B sweep.

The X-Yachts Xr-41 carried positions 1, 2, and 4 in Class B at Tallinn 2025 — FORMULA X (DEN-1, 9 pts), DIXI 5 (DEN-4100, 14 pts), and EXCITER (GER-8696, 22.5 pts). Three of the top four boats in the 18-boat middle-class standings were the same model on the same drawing board, sailed under two flags. In the view published nearest the event all three read AEROCORE, and the archetype carries 5 of the 18 Class B boats — the top of the class was effectively an Xr-41 / AEROCORE sweep inside the World Championship. That says less about a hull beating its rating and more about a production model reaching saturation at the Baltic offshore scale. When a designer-builder partnership reaches this kind of concentration at the top of a World class field, it is usually because the model is the right answer to the championship’s condition envelope.

  • Xr-41 positions in Class B: 1, 2, 4 of 18
  • FORMULA X (DEN), DIXI 5 (DEN), EXCITER (GER): all Xr-41 / AEROCORE
  • AEROCORE share of Class B: 5 of 18
Complete data ORC Worlds 2025
Hull Edge / Under-Conversion

RTS Baltic: eighth on the comparative board, sixteenth on the Class C score line.

EST-919 RTS Baltic (Fareast 28R, HEFTLINE) posted the 8th-lowest Comparative Time of the 61-boat Tallinn race group at +8.70 sec/nm — the second-best reading of any Class C boat — yet sits 16th of 30 on points in the Class C standings, on 107 points. At 8.52 m it is the smallest hull in the entire 61-boat race group, and this compact, level-posture HEFTLINE platform held its rating expectation closer than all 53 larger boats behind it on the board. What it did not do was convert. Almost nothing at Tallinn beat its rating outright — only FORMULA X and RAN finished under expectation, and the race group’s median ran to +34.90 sec/nm across a week that mixed offshore legs of up to 211 miles with windward-leewards of five to eight. Against that field RTS Baltic’s physics read is genuinely strong; the score line says the days did not fall its way. That gap between the dimensional read and the trophy room is the signal worth carrying into next season, not a verdict on the week.

  • RTS Baltic Comparative Time, Tallinn week: +8.70 sec/nm · 8th of 61
  • Class C standing: 16th of 30 on points · 107 pts
  • Race-group median Comparative Time: +34.90 sec/nm · only 2 of 61 under expectation
Complete data ORC Worlds 2025
Composition Shift

Two different fleets contest the same championship one year apart.

The Tallinn 2025 and Sorrento 2026 World Championship grids invert their lead archetypes — each read in the FleetEdge view published nearest its own event. Tallinn 2025 was LEANRUN-led at 24.6% (15 of 61 classified boats), with AEROCORE second at 23.0% (14) and a tie for third at 21.3% between AEROSTREAM and LEANFORCE — a broad archetype spread on a grid built from the production racer-cruisers of the Baltic offshore circuit. Sorrento 2026 concentrates instead of spreading: AEROSTREAM alone takes 43.6% (44 of 101 classified), with AEROCORE second at 15.8% (16 boats) and LEANRUN third at 14.9% (15) — the towering-rig platforms of the TP-52 and Swan 45 grand-prix tier stacked at the championship-grade end of a 22-nation entry. The popular hulls tell the same story: First 34.7 / X-41 / Xr-41 in 2025; TP-52 / Swan 45 / Italia 11.98 in 2026. Two structurally different fleets contesting the same Championship one year apart, both legitimately a World Championship under the same rating regime — that is the ORC framework working as designed.

  • 2025 lead archetypes (61 classified): LEANRUN 24.6% · AEROCORE 23.0% · AEROSTREAM / LEANFORCE 21.3% each
  • 2026 lead archetypes (101 classified): AEROSTREAM 43.6% · AEROCORE 15.8% · LEANRUN 14.9%
  • Lead production hulls: First 34.7 / X-41 (2025) vs TP-52 / Swan 45 (2026)
Partial data ORC Worlds 2025
Fleet DNA

How the Tallinn 2025 fleet is built.

61 boats classified across seven measured slots — six of the eight archetypes of the 2026 census — the full event-classified distribution, sorted by share. Two of these measured slots carry the LEANFORCE name; see how eleven resolved into eight.

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

LEANRUN

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

Boats 15
Share 24.6%

AEROCORE

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

Boats 14
Share 23.0%

AEROSTREAM

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

Boats 13
Share 21.3%

LEANFORCE

Compact scale — downwind-neutral in banked race evidence.

Boats 13
Share 21.3%

KEELRUN

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

Boats 4
Share 6.6%

HEFTLINE

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

Boats 2
Share 3.3%

No family owns this championship. LEANRUN leads at 15 of the 61 classified boats (24.6%) and AEROCORE follows at 14 (23.0%), but third place is a tie: AEROSTREAM and LEANFORCE carry 13 boats each (21.3%), LEANFORCE across the two measured slots that share that name. KEELRUN takes 4 (6.6%) and HEFTLINE 2 (3.3%). Six of the eight archetypes of the 2026 census are on this grid; only AEROFORCE and SPARKFLEX are absent. That flatness is the Baltic entry list showing through — a production racer-cruiser field rather than a grand-prix one. The two published class titles did not go to the largest family: Class A went to AEROSTREAM, joint third by share, and Class B to AEROCORE, second.

International event fleet · 61 classified · as of 2026-08-20

Fleet Stories

Tallinn 2025 fleet signature.

Designer Density

Farr Design anchors the Tallinn entry list.

Farr Design drew 14 of the 61 comparative boats (23.0%) at the 2025 ORC World Championship — the largest single drawing-board share at the meet, and the board behind 12 of the 14 Beneteau First-series hulls on the grid. Jeppesen-Nielsen follows close behind at 21.3% (13 boats), the X-41 / X-35 line that fills the middle of the entry list; then Polli M at 8.2% (5), with X-Yachts in-house and Johnstone R at 6.6% (4 each). Ceccarelli M, Mills M, Blank D, Qviberg S, and Carkeek add two boats apiece to the named field. Both leaders clear the 15% dominant threshold, and between them they account for 27 of the 61 boats — two boards, nearly half the championship.

  • Farr Design: 23.0% · largest single share at the meet
  • Jeppesen-Nielsen: 21.3% · second board
  • Polli M: 5 · 8.2% · X-Yachts and Johnstone R: 4 each · 6.6%
Complete data Designer mix
Archetype Density

LEANRUN leads the Tallinn fleet — but only just.

LEANRUN carried 24.6% of the classified championship cohort (15 of 61 boats) in the archetype view published nearest the event, with AEROCORE second at 23.0% (14 boats) and AEROSTREAM third at 21.3% (13). LEANRUN is the large-scale, upright family, and most of it races in that 30-boat Class C field. AEROCORE, the large-scale upright platform, is the X-Yachts Xr-41 story in Class B. AEROSTREAM, towering-scale and level-posture, is five of Class A’s seven boats. The three together take more than two in three boats, and three further archetypes carry the rest — a flatter structural signature than a grand-prix championship produces, and the reason the two published titles landed outside the leading archetype.

  • LEANRUN: 24.6% · leading share
  • AEROCORE: 23.0% · AEROSTREAM: 21.3%
  • Top-three share: 42 of 61 · 68.9%
Complete data Archetype mix

Classified fleet view · 61 boats · as of 2026-08-20

Popular Classes

The boats that defined Tallinn 2025.

First 34.7 (5)

The Farr-designed Beneteau production racer-cruiser — tied for the most-common single hull on the Tallinn grid and a staple of the Baltic offshore circuit.

X-41 (5)

The Jeppesen-Nielsen-designed X-Yachts production grand-prix racer — tied for the most-common hull on the Tallinn grid and, with its Xr-41 derivative and two X-41 Mod entries, the anchor of the middle-class field.

Xr-41 (4)

The X-Yachts grand-prix derivative of the X-41 — carried positions 1, 2, and 4 in Class B, an effective Xr-41 / AEROCORE sweep at the top of the middle class.

First 35 (3)

The Farr-designed Beneteau racer-cruiser one size down from the 36.7 — two Class C entries from Estonia and Latvia, plus a third scored on its own line. New to the three-boat tier at this published view.

First 36.7 (3)

The Farr-designed Beneteau racer-cruiser — a long-running production model on the larger end of the Baltic racer-cruiser grid.

Italia 11.98 / X-35 OD (3 each)

The rest of the three-boat tier: the Polli M-drawn Italian racer-cruiser recurrent on Baltic and Mediterranean grids, and the X-Yachts one-design — ahead of a two-boat tier of Arcona 340, Cross 31, J-112E, Neo-350, X-35 Mod, and X-41 Mod.

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Go deeper.

ORC World Fleet

The full ORC world-traveling fleet that Tallinn 2025 was one championship of — cross-fleet archetype, designer, and class signature.

Baltic Offshore

The peer 1,806-boat Baltic offshore fleet whose members filled the Tallinn 2025 race group — the home circuit behind the World Championship.

Estonia

The host nation of the 2025 ORC Worlds — 22 of the 61-boat comparative race group (36%), the largest national delegation, and the lowest points total on the published Class C standings (SHADOW, Arcona 340, 19 pts).

Finland

The second-largest Tallinn 2025 delegation — 12 boats in the comparative race group and the Class A runner-up (Mercedes-Benz, GP-42, 15 pts).

ORC Worlds 2026

The sibling forward edition at Sorrento — a 104-boat entry list, 101 boats in the comparative race group, 22 nations, 32 races. An AEROSTREAM-led fleet at 43.6% in the view published nearest that event, where Tallinn spreads broadly across its archetype field with LEANRUN barely ahead at 24.6%.

Fleet Archetypes

The archetype design groups of the 2026 census that let us read Tallinn’s structural signature — and the case study that walks through what fair rating across different design strategies actually looks like.

Analyze the 2025 ORC World Championship in FleetEdge.

Boat-level diagnostics, multi-dimension analytics, and cross-class comparison across the 61-boat comparative race group and 21 races at Tallinn.

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