From ORC Certificate to Edge Map in Under a Minute
Confirm what you have. Find where you’re slow. Walk into the loft with data and a whole-boat readout. You are one of over 14,000 ORC-certificated boats racing globally in 2025 — the most in ORC history. Your certificate already holds the data. SailEdge™ by SailrScience turns it into a plan.
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The Shift
From gut feel to physics.
Before SailEdge
You get an ORC certificate. You file it.
Sail decisions come from what worked last season
The tactician says “J2 is faster above 14” — nobody has tested it
You buy a new sail and hope
After SailEdge
Your ORC certificate becomes a living digital twin
Every sail tested against every wind condition
The crossover grid says “switch at TWS 13.8, TWA > 85°”
You buy the sail that closes the biggest gap
1. Load Your Boat
Drop your ORC certificate. Dimensions, rig, rated sail inventory — extracted in seconds.
2. Confirm Your Sail Plan
Check your inventory against reality. These are the sails you’re racing with — this is the baseline.
3. Find Your Gap
The Edge Map shows the shape of your sail plan’s strengths — and the conditions where you’re leaving speed on the table.
4. Walk Into the Loft
You know where you’re slow and in what conditions. Your loft fills the gap. The conversation starts from shared data.
Step 1
Upload Your Certificate
Start with your ORC certificate — the HTML file from orc.org. Drop it in,
and SailEdge™ builds your Digital Twin in seconds. Your dimensions, your rig, your rated
sail inventory — extracted directly from the certificate. Nothing to enter by hand.
Start with the demo boats — open to everyone. Uploading your own certificate takes a
SailEdge license: US $99 per boat, per year, all sales final.
Get SailEdge →
Upload your ORCi certificate and SailEdge™ builds three things in under a minute: your Digital Twin, your performance polar, and your rated sail inventory with dimensions already loaded. No data entry. Your boat, anchored to what ORC measured.
Don’t have an ORC certificate? Get yours at
orc.org →
Step 2
Confirm Your Sail Plan
Your Digital Twin loads with every sail on the certificate. Check the inventory against
what you actually race with. Main and jib dimensions, headsail options, spinnakers —
confirm the list matches reality. This is the baseline the model will work from.
On the Boat tab, the engine assigns the best-fitting of 52 IGES-derived Delft
Systematic Yacht Hull Series reference geometries — shown with cross
sections for your review, and yours to change as a declared scenario. See the
hull shape before you trust the numbers.
Learn more about the hull assignment →
Step 3
Explore a Wind Condition
Pick conditions you know. A reaching angle you sail every Wednesday night. The upwind
leg in 12 knots where you always feel slow. Open the 3D boat rendering and the performance
cards for that cell.
Reality check: does the speed match your instruments? Does the heel and balance picture
look right? Is the headsail doing the work where you’d expect? The whole-boat outcome
helps you see whether the gain is clean or paid back in drag, heel, or control load.
If the model matches your experience, you’ll trust what it shows you next.
The Edge Map lays out your sail plan across the full wind matrix. Look for patterns.
Strong reaching but weak upwind? Nothing between 60 and 90 degrees? Competitive
downwind but losing to the fleet on close fetches?
The map shows the shape of your sail plan’s strengths — and the gaps. Tap the cells
that matter and read the force picture, heel, and whole-boat outcome before you spend money.
Want to isolate a single question? Sail Studies
let you compare one sail, one configuration, one decision — across every wind condition.
Pick from pre-loaded studies or build your own.
The Edge Map shows your sail plan’s shape. But what about your crew?
Check one box, change the crew weight, and the map recomputes. Lighter crew and
you gain on reaches but pay upwind. Heavier crew and the upwind picture changes —
more righting moment, more stability.
No Expert Mode. No custom engagement. One checkbox, and you see where crew weight
moves your edge.
You’re slow from 60 to 90 degrees in 10–14 knots. Now you know. The
question becomes: what sail fills that gap?
Specific conditions. Backed by data. Not a hunch at the bar — a quantified
gap you can hand to your sailmaker and say “this is what I need.”
Part of that answer is where the new sail puts your balance —
Center of Effort, computed
for every sail you’re considering.
Your Loft Can Meet You Here
You know the conditions and the gap. If your sailmaker is a SailEdge partner, they
can load your boat, apply their protected tuning on top of the same boat model built
on the R16 DSYHS calm-water backbone with bounded follow-on lanes, and show you what
their sail does on your hull in those conditions.
The conversation starts from a shared view of the problem, not a product pitch.
And if crew weight is part of the picture, both you and your loft see the same
RM supplement — no guessing.
Your boat’s stability story, straight from its certificate: how she
stands up to a breeze, with an honest grade on every answer.
When she’s heeled past comfortable and you’re easing just to keep her
on her feet, that’s over-pressed. R16 derives that state from your
certificate: balanced on her own, balanced after easing, or changed down to
the next rated sail.
Don’t know if your loft is a partner? Ask them. Or
talk to us →
Step 6
Save and Come Back
Save your boat and your studies. Come back after the purchase, update with real sail
measurements, and run the study again. The gap you identified — did the new sail
fill it?
Your SailEdge data is yours. Export it, revisit it next season, or share it with your
sailmaker to start the next conversation.
See the Fleet
You’ve analyzed your boat. Now see the fleet.
FleetEdge™ by SailrScience takes the same ORC certificates and builds
fleet-wide analytics: 9,591 ORC boats scored of 11,207 analyzed within a
12,965-boat governed corpus (July 2026), ranked by hull efficiency, sail
performance, and design family. Eight performance archetypes (the 2026 census) — measured
boat types — computed across the fleet: AEROSTREAM, SPARKFLEX, AEROFORCE, and
five more. Filter by nation, event, or class.
Find the patterns. Spot the rivals. See which archetype defines your corner of
the fleet — and what that means for the conditions ahead.