What Is Shark24.org and the Shark 24 Class Organisation?

Shark24.org is the official website of the Shark 24 Class Organisation, the body that connects owners and crews of the Shark 24, a one-design keelboat class with a racing history dating back to 1959. The site is the place to go for class news, championship reports, and event announcements; it is a class association hub rather than a boatbuilder or retailer site. If you sail a Shark 24, are considering one, or follow one-design keelboat racing, the site and the organisation behind it are the starting point.

What the Shark 24 class is

The Shark 24 is a small keelboat raced as a one-design class, meaning boats are built and maintained to a common standard so results depend mainly on crew skill rather than design differences. The class has an international footprint: the site's reports cover World Championships in Belleville, Ontario and on Lake Traunsee in Austria, a European Championship in Röbel on Lake Müritz in Germany, and crews from across Europe and South Africa. That spread is the clearest evidence that this is an established international class, not a local fleet.

The class's competitive record on the site goes back decades. A 2023 report describes the 56th Shark World Championship, held in Niagara-on-the-Lake, which places the first world championship in the late 1950s and matches the class history the site references as starting in 1959.

What the Class Organisation does

Based on the site's content, the organisation's visible work falls into three areas:

• Championship administration and promotion. The site publishes event notices and results for World and European Championships, including the 2026 World Championship in Belleville and the 2026 European Championship in Röbel.
• Community and fleet news. It carries member news, including memorial notices for figures in the class such as Cameron Smith, John Clark, and Bodo Günther, nicknamed "Mister Shark."
• A shared record of the class. Race reports, event archives, and historical notes give owners and prospective owners a single reference for how the class has evolved and where it races.

What you will find on the site

The homepage is organised as a news feed with dated posts, paginated across multiple pages. The main content types are:

The site also carries a welcome message for new visitors and a prompt inviting readers to "begin your journey," which suggests it is intended to serve newcomers as well as existing class members.

How to use it

If you want to understand the class or get involved, the practical path is:

1. Read the recent reports to see where the class races and how competitive fleets are organised. The 2025 Worlds report, for instance, notes Christian Binder being crowned triple world champion, which gives a sense of the class's top-level competition.
2. Check the events posts for championship dates and host clubs; the 2026 World Championship entry is the current forward-looking item.
3. Use the archive (the pagination links) to trace the class's history and past venues if you are researching the boat or a specific regatta.

The site does not publish boat specifications, pricing, or purchase information in the material available, so treat it as a class and community resource rather than a buyer's guide. For technical class rules or measurement questions, the organisation itself would be the appropriate contact.

Who it is for

The site serves three overlapping audiences: current Shark 24 owners and crews who follow results and fleet news, sailors evaluating the class who want to see its competitive health and geographic reach, and anyone interested in one-design keelboat racing history. If your question is "is this an active, internationally raced class?", the championship record and the spread of fleets across Europe, North America, and South Africa answer it directly.