Partners & Ecosystem
The data sources and technology behind FleetEdge.
Every fleet has a fingerprint.
Federations, class offices, media partners — see the fleets we collaborate across.
Hidden Shape52 dimensions reduced to 31 features and 11 archetypes.
How the corpus clusters before the results arrive.
Read the shape of the fleet before the scoreboard reads it.
Institutional validation.
Strategic partnerships do not influence FleetEdge models, archetype definitions, rankings, or event coverage. FleetEdge remains independent and public-data based. Partner imagery, when used, is labelled as such.
The permanent statement of this principle lives at partners#neutrality-policy and is linked from every partner-branded surface.
Partnership announcement pending
FleetEdge's first strategic design partnership will be announced on a date to be confirmed. When the announcement is published, this section will carry the partner's name, the scope of the relationship, and a link to the dedicated announcement page. Until then, the independence-disclosure posture above applies to every future partnership surface on FleetEdge. The data ecosystem described below — ORC certificate data, ORC Scorer race results, and SailEdge physics — is separate from strategic-partner relationships and remains the foundation of every FleetEdge analysis.
What strategic design partnerships are — and what they are not.
Do strategic design partnerships influence individual boat archetype assignments?
No. Archetype assignments are computed by the MPAE pipeline from certificate parameters, race results, and SailEdge physics — the three data streams described in the band below. A strategic partner has no access to the assignment process, no input to the clustering model, and no visibility into per-boat outputs before publication.
Do partnerships shape which fleets, events, or designers FleetEdge analyses?
No. Event coverage is driven by where ORC and IRC racing happens and where result data is available. Designer representation is whatever the public-data corpus contains — FleetEdge does not weight, reorder, or exclude designer families based on partner relationships. Every designer represented in the ORC and IRC fleets continues to appear in the corpus on the same terms.
Are ranking outputs affected by a partnership?
No. Rankings derive from race results scored under ORC and IRC rules — not from any input a strategic partner provides. The Performance Potential Index, crew-residual figures, and archetype-fit scores all descend from the same independent physics + results pipeline regardless of partnership status.
Is FleetEdge a partner product?
No. FleetEdge is a SailrScience product. Strategic partnerships, when they exist, are marketing/strategic relationships with independent organisations. SailrScience retains full control over the analytical platform, methodology, and editorial posture.
What does a strategic partnership signal?
Institutional credibility. A strategic design partnership indicates that a respected naval-architecture or industry organisation has chosen to associate its name with FleetEdge. That is a reputational signal for professional audiences — not a statement about any particular boat, archetype, or result. Partnership-branded pages carry the disclosure above; country, fleet, and event pages deliberately carry no partnership branding — protecting the neutrality of every analytical comparison.
Partnerships do not influence analytical outputs.
Strategic partnerships and endorsements appear on partner-branded surfaces only: the homepage partner strip, this Partners page, and any dedicated partner announcement page. They do not appear on country pages, fleet pages, event pages, archetype pages, rankings, or any analytical comparison surface.
This separation is permanent and audit-checked. It is the reason FleetEdge can host strategic partnerships without compromising the independence of its public analysis. Country, fleet, and event pages carry no partner imagery, no partner language, and no partner-derived emphasis in their narrative structure — by design, by rule, and by audit gate.
The analytical foundation.
FleetEdge's analytical power comes from the convergence of three independent data streams: ORC certificate parameters, empirical race results from ORC Scorer events, and SailEdge force-balance analysis built on the Delft Systematic Yacht Hull Series. The quality and breadth of these inputs determine the resolution of every analysis.
Each data stream contributes a distinct perspective. The certificate describes the boat's rated identity — what it is on paper.
Race results describe what happened on the water — the empirical ground truth. SailEdge physics computes how Delft Series force-balance analysis interprets the hull form — speed deltas against the ORC baseline. The triangulation of all three is what makes multi-dimensional analysis possible.
Three streams. One analysis.
ORC Certificates
Public certificate data from the international ORC framework. Hull geometry, rig dimensions, stability characteristics, appendage configuration, and VPP-derived performance predictions. FleetEdge has analysed certificates for 11,207 boats across multiple seasons and fleets.
ORC Scorer Results
Race results from ORC-sanctioned events scored through the official ORC Scorer system. The current dataset includes the 2025 Garmin ORC World Championship (64 boats, 21 races), Copa del Rey, Sydney Hobart (2019–2024, 298 boats), and national championships — 959 events with race data out of 967 total in the corpus.
SailEdge Physics
SailrScience's proprietary force-balance computation, built on the Delft Systematic Yacht Hull Series. SailEdge applies VPP-class physics to ORC certificate geometry — the delta between its force-balance analysis and the ORC baseline is itself a dimensional feature.
The analytical pipeline.
FleetEdge's Multi-Parameter Archetype Engine (MPAE) processes the three data streams through a defined analytical pipeline: 31 features are extracted from each boat's certificate and physics profile, reduced to 4 latent factors via PCA (explaining 87.14% of the variance).
These components are classified into 11 performance archetypes through ensemble clustering — the consensus of k-means, hierarchical, and DBSCAN algorithms applied independently.
The result is a dimensional portrait of every boat in the fleet and a structural map of the fleet itself. This pipeline runs against the full dataset of 11,207 boats across 959 events with race data (from a 967-event corpus), producing archetype assignments and dimensional profiles that are consistent across events and seasons.
The full methodology is documented in detail on the Methodology page, including the feature set, dimensionality reduction parameters, and clustering validation criteria.
Working with FleetEdge.
Regatta Organisers
FleetEdge analysis is available for event coverage — fleet previews before racing, archetype-based commentary during events, and post-event dimensional reports. The analysis requires only the fleet's ORC certificate data and race results, both of which are typically available through the event's scoring system.
Media & Analytics
The archetype framework provides a shared vocabulary for discussing fleet composition, design trends, and competitive patterns. Archetype data and dimensional analysis are available for editorial and broadcast use — a new analytical lens for covering ORC racing.
SailrScience welcomes enquiries from regatta organisers, media outlets, class associations, and analytics platforms interested in incorporating FleetEdge data into their coverage or products. All integration discussions begin with the contact page.
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