Hull validation
Place a design on the archetype map. Compare predicted polars against the fleet archetype median. Identify where the design departs from the cluster and verify whether the departure is intentional.
Services · For Naval Architects
Physics validation and fleet benchmarking for naval architecture firms.
Designs are validated against a corpus. With SailrScience, designs are also validated against the fleet — by archetype placement, by polar comparison, by historical race performance.
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The job
A naval architecture firm working on a new offshore design has every tool the discipline gives it: VPP, CFD, tank tests, parametric studies. What it usually doesn’t have is the rest of the fleet next to that design — the 9,591 scored ORC boats (11,207 analyzed, July 2026), the 11 archetypes that emerged from those measurements, the race history that shows which design choices have actually paid in which conditions.
SailrScience supplies that layer. The model places every other measured boat. It places your design. It tells you where the design wins and where it falls apart.
What we provide
Archetype placement
The MPAE archetype model decomposes how offshore boats actually vary — not by marketing category but by measured geometry, sail-plan, and stability profile. Tell us where a design should live; we tell you where it actually lands.
Fleet benchmarking
Race results across 9,591 scored ORC boats (July 2026), weather-conditioned and archetype-conditioned. A given design choice can be benchmarked against every comparable boat that has ever raced with the choice in those conditions.
Custom MPAE analysis
Bespoke decompositions for design questions the standard archetype model does not answer — new rating systems, novel hull forms, mixed-fleet handicap targets. Engineered to the question.
Proof
The Farr Design partnership
Farr Design — the naval architecture firm behind some of the most successful offshore racing programs of the past four decades — is adopting SailrScience physics across their consulting workflow. Their client surface now carries the Powered by sailr.science™ co-brand.
Read the case studyFrom the product side
The fleet analytics surface naval architects use directly is FleetEdge™ by SailrScience — the portfolio’s fleet-scale workbench. The per-boat workbench paired with it is SailEdge™ by SailrScience. The institutional NA lane on FleetEdge surfaces the archetype map, dimension decomposition, and race-cohort filtering that the services tier extends with custom analysis.
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