Sydney Hobart. Fastnet. Middle Sea.

The result: 1,600+ IRC boats that have never held an ORC certificate are now analysed with ORC-grade physics across 52 dimensions per boat — reduced through feature extraction to 31 dimensional features, four PCA factors, and eleven performance archetypes. Combined with 9,591 ORC-rated boats, the FleetEdge fleet now covers 11,207 boats — the world's largest cross-handicap analytics platform. Six flagship event series — the Rolex Sydney Hobart, Rolex Fastnet, Rolex Middle Sea Race, RORC Caribbean 600, RORC Transatlantic, and Cowes Offshore Racing Series — carry full fleet analytics including archetype classification, dimensional profiles, weather enrichment, and Performance Potential scoring.

Thousands of boats race under IRC — the world's most widely used offshore handicap system — without the hull geometry, rig dimensions, and polar data that ORC certificates provide. Until now, these boats were invisible to physics-based fleet analytics.

FleetEdge's IRC-ORC Synthetic Twin process matches each IRC certificate to its ORC design-family equivalent using measured hull dimensions — length, beam, and draft cross-checked against dual-rated boats where both certificates exist. Four confidence tiers cover exact sail-number matches, name-plus-geometry concordance, class-sibling hull clustering, and unmatched boats. The matched IRC boat inherits the full ORC physics profile: polar performance data, hull hydrodynamics, rig geometry, and stability characteristics.

HYCOM Fastnet Rolex Fastnet Race — the Needles-to-Plymouth tidal chain. The Solent start and the Portland Bill, Lizard, and Plymouth approach each turn on tidal timing. A division that caught the west-going gate beats one rounded into counter-tide by hours, not minutes. Ocean Intelligence overlays the HYCOM current state on each leg of the race so the result reads as an observable record, not a black box.

HYCOM Sydney–Hobart Rolex Sydney–Hobart — the East Australian Current boundary. The EAC axis shifts edition to edition and day to day. The IRC finishing order turns on which boats rode the favourable axis south and which hit its counter-current margin. The HYCOM overlay resolves that axis for each edition at race-tier; the v1.1 release advances Sydney–Hobart to per-leg.

HYCOM Caribbean 600 RORC Caribbean 600 — island-chain eddy structure. The Antigua–Guadeloupe–Saba–Anegada course is a serial eddy negotiation. Every island shadow spawns an eddy field, and every channel has its own current profile. HYCOM maps each boat's passage through that field at race-tier; the v1.1 release advances RORC Caribbean 600 to per-leg coverage.

HYCOM Middle Sea Race Rolex Middle Sea Race — the Messina Strait reversal. The Strait of Messina is the race's single decisive current gate, and its flow reverses on the tidal cycle. A fleet on favourable flow beats a fleet on counter-flow by hours. HYCOM resolves the gate state for each boat at its actual arrival time at race-tier — not the abstract state, the state the boat actually met. The v1.1 release advances Rolex Middle Sea Race to per-leg.

HYCOM Cowes Offshore Cowes Offshore — the Solent semidiurnal cycle. The Solent runs on a sharp 12.4-hour tidal cycle with pronounced peak ebbs and floods. Every Cowes start meets the clock; every weather mark rounds into one of its phases. Ocean Intelligence aligns each race's geometry against the prevailing tidal state at that moment of the edition at race-tier; the v1.1 release advances Cowes Offshore to per-leg.