Place a design against its peers.
FleetEdge Design Benchmarks · Planned
Planned product · specimen: a candidate hull against its archetype peer cluster. The product is planned; the taxonomy and peer data are FleetEdge’s published archetype framework. The sample screen further down is illustrative — sample data, not the published record.
Where a hull sits in its performance archetype, how it performs against its peer cluster, and what the fleet record says after launch — privately.
For naval architects, sailmakers, and lofts. Access by request.
Universe: a design office Story: Sorrento 2026 — one design, one year on Private to your office
Scope: your design office’s benchmark set
Visible to: your office only — benchmarks are never visible to other designers, builders, or the public
Access: by request — the product opens once your access is granted.
The benchmark, on screen.
A drawing read against its rated cohort: where it sits on the five design axes, the conditions it wins in, the certificate signature that confirms the read — and the tools to test a rig, keel, or declaration change before it’s drawn.
Design Benchmarks, over the one App.
The same FleetEdge App every product runs on, curated to a naval architect: a design read against its cohort, the conditions it wins in, and the tools to test a change before it’s committed to the tank or the loft.
Design-axes benchmark
Where the drawing sits on the five design axes against its rated cohort — the shape of the design in one read.
Where the design wins
The corrected-time edge by wind band — the conditions the design owns and the ones it gives back.
Certificate signature
The raw ORC-certificate measurements against the cohort — the physical lens that confirms the axes.
Peer cross-read
Where the drawing lands across the rated cluster — the benchmark that survives a change of venue and crew.
Rig, appendage & declaration tools
Propose a change and see the projected rating and speed delta, with a declaration optimizer and a SailDrive grid.
Certificate ingest
Bring a client boat’s certificate straight in — convert, place it in its cohort, and benchmark from the first read.
Every panel above runs on instruments already live in the FleetEdge App, read through the design lens: Fleet scatter Archetypes × conditions Wind-regime affinity Dimension stack ranking Boat detail Competitor context Crew PPI Headlines Story cards
Deliberately not here: the model’s inner workings — the five design axes are vocabulary, never internals. A practice’s client boats and their proposals are org-owned; peers appear as public cohort context. A proposed delta is directional until measured, and no design is “better” without the conditions attached.
Load. Read. Locate. Test. Decide.
For design offices and sail analysts who want to know where a drawing wins, how it stacks against its cohort, and what a change would do — before committing it to the tank or the loft.
- Load — ingest the client boat’s certificate and place it in its rated cohort.
- Read — benchmark the drawing on the five design axes and against the certificate signature.
- Locate — find the corrected-time edge by wind band: the conditions the design owns.
- Test — adjust rig, keel, or declaration and see the projected rating and speed delta.
- Decide — deep-link the benchmark and the proposal into the design review. Evidence, not a hunch.
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
KATARA 18 · Technonicol 23 · WB IX 26 — the published Class B podium on corrected points, one design generation apart. The points are from the published Sorrento page; the frame’s ranked ladder shows the same podium order on the race-performance measure. 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 — the frame’s visible rows read 6–10 kt offshore — the profile in which deep-hull efficiency took 11 of 15 top-3 slots by the versioned Study’s count: 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 (capture dated in the caption).
· 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; the physics release has shipped and the published view now carries it — the class results do not move.
· Hull-efficiency values are not quoted in this page’s text (they move with the fleet’s published view) — captured App frames show the App’s live readouts.
Design Benchmarks draws on the FleetEdge taxonomy and hull layer: Fleet Archetypes, Hull & Platform, and the Methodology.
A worked specimen boat view is included below: the specimen story →
Planned product · a real hull, worked as the Design Benchmarks boat view — every figure is from the published record. The product is planned; the surface shown is the live method.
Xr-41 · X Yachts AEROSTREAM family Event: ORC Worlds 2026, Sorrento Public-results-only
One design, one year on
This is the read Design Benchmarks opens for a proven design meeting a new field — here, WB IX, the lone Xr-41 at Sorrento one year after the design filled the top of Class B at Tallinn. The boat view sets her row against the AEROSTREAM family and its rated peer cluster: where the drawing actually lands when the fleet around it moves a generation, receipts on every row.
Where it placed
On the published record, WB IX took 3rd in Class B at the 2026 ORC World Championship in Sorrento with 26 points, behind KATARA’s Pg-390 (18) and Technonicol’s X-41 Mod (23) — the single Xr-41 carrying the design into the new-generation field, one year after the Xr-41 cluster filled the top of Class B at Tallinn 2025.
The full standings live on the published event page; the benchmark view puts one hull’s row against its archetype.
Family & peer cluster
Which of the eight performance archetypes the hull classifies into, and its neighborhood of rated peers — the canonical, vintage-aware comparison basis.
Below the narrative floor the readout stays structural — where the design sits, not who beats whom.
See it against your own work.
Scope: your design office’s private benchmark set — never visible to competitors.