ORCA — GRE 523
Model: J/80
Updated
ORCA (GRE 523) is a J/80 designed by Rod Johnstone and built by J/Boats. She has been racing since 2021. Against a typical J/80 she is quicker upwind in light air.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats1
Race start
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Wins
0%
Podiums
82
Race Edge
J/80: 74
596.1s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
8.03 m
26′ 4″
Beam
2.49 m
Draft
1.50 m
Displacement
1.4 t
Sail area
36 m²
On the podium
Where ORCA finishes when she goes racing.
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Wins
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
1
Starts
Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.
Regattas
Every regatta we found with ORCA on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
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Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 1 race over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats ORCA meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (14)
Met too few times for a figure.
GORGO (Nek 26, 1 meeting), JMANIA (J/24, 1 meeting), JOLLY (Platu 25, 1 meeting), ERYTOS JR (Platu 25, 1 meeting), ANAX (First 34.7, 1 meeting), AEOLUS II (First 36.7, 1 meeting), ALBIREO (X-35, 1 meeting), ERYTOS II (Jv 44, 1 meeting), ECHIONAS (IMX 38, 1 meeting), KYMATOLIGI (Mount Gay 30, 1 meeting), NEOROS (IMX 38, 1 meeting), ERINNI (X-562, 1 meeting), IXIS-AFIXIS (X-452, 1 meeting), EUPLOIA (First 211, 1 meeting)
How ORCA compares with a typical J/80
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, J/80s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical J/80; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots she sails level with a typical J/80 across the course.
Speed at every angle
ORCA in blue, a typical J/80 dashed.
ORCA in blue, a typical J/80 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other J/80s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the J/80
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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