Place a design against its peers.
FleetEdge Design Benchmarks · Planned
Planned product · specimen: a candidate hull against its design-family peer cluster. The product is planned; the taxonomy and peer data are FleetEdge’s published archetype framework.
Where a hull sits in its design family, how it performs against its peer cluster, and what the fleet record says after launch — privately.
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Universe: a design office Story: Sorrento 2026 — one design, one year on Private to your office
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The design that swept a Worlds sent one boat back.
The Xr-41 filled the top of Class B at Tallinn 2025. One year on, a single Xr-41 — WB IX — carried the design into a new-generation field at Sorrento. What does one flag-bearer prove?
Benchmarking is exactly for this: when the fleet won’t run your experiment for you, the platform’s record does.
WB IX at Sorrento — third against the next drawing-board generation
On the published record, WB IX (ITA-41005, X-Yachts Xr-41) took 3rd in Class B at the 2026 ORC World Championship — 26 points behind KATARA’s Pg-390 (18) and Technonicol’s X-41 Mod (23). One year after the design’s Tallinn sweep, its lone representative was still on the podium; the boats ahead of it are the next generation. The boat view shows what the design brought: −31.9 s/nm median against ORC prediction across her comparison records.
Where the design landed, on corrected points
KATARA 18 · Technonicol 23 · WB IX 26 — the published Class B podium, one design generation apart. A benchmark is not a victory lap; it is a position, honestly stated.
One boat among the new generation
The cohort’s headline ladders place WB IX against every rival, family by family — the same leaders view the product gives every subscriber.
2025’s races rewarded exactly what the Xr-41s brought
The race-by-race conditions surface for Tallinn 2025 shows the medium-air offshore profile in which deep-hull efficiency took 11 of 15 top-3 slots — the context for the design’s original sweep, and the benchmark’s reminder that a design’s record is always a design-times-conditions record.
Five hulls, one drawing board, two families
Across the five Xr-41s in these two championships, the classification reads each hull’s certificate, not the brochure: most classify into one family; the Tallinn winner sits deep in another; and WB IX’s own label differs between the published Sorrento cut and the current fleet view — the taxonomy is vintage-aware, and history keeps its own words. That within-design spread is not a flaw in the design; it is the reason designs are benchmarked hull by hull, cut by cut.
What this page can and cannot claim.
· Points and placings are from the published FleetEdge Sorrento page; WB IX’s −31.9 s/nm median is from the captured boat view (as-of in frame).
· Only one Xr-41 raced Sorrento 2026 — no like-for-like design comparison at that event is claimed; the cross-event read (Tallinn sweep → Sorrento podium) is stated as record, not inference.
· Family assignments reflect each cut’s published view; a pending physics release may refine assignments — the class results do not move.
· Hull-efficiency values are not quoted (pending physics release).
Design Benchmarks draws on the FleetEdge taxonomy and hull layer: Fleet Archetypes, Hull Efficiency, and the Methodology.
A worked specimen boat view remains available: the specimen benchmark boat page →
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Scope: your design office’s private benchmark set — never visible to competitors.