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Pocket Luxury Yacht

The X4⁰ is the smallest model in the Pure X range; blending quality, performance and styling with cruising capability.

Hot out of the X-Yachts Design Office came the X4⁰, a forty-foot performance cruising yacht that is just as capable for some serious mileage, as it is blasting around the cans at the weekends. The new baby Luxury X-Yacht joins the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Pure X range.

The design philosophy was very clear from the outset - like all our yachts, we place a huge emphasis on giving the owner a superb and comfortable sailing experience, on a yacht that is easy to handle by all the crew.

X-Yachts has developed an online web-configurator for each of the Pure X models, enabling you to design your own version of the sail yacht. Configure your own dreams.

Light, strong and stiff

With the introduction of the X-65 in 2007, X-Yachts started to infuse hulls for performance yachts, utilising epoxy resin. Epoxy infusion construction offers fantastic control over the laminate, allowing it to be optimised to maximise strength and stiffness, whilst saving weight.

In the X4⁰, all weight saved is used to increase the yacht’s stability, enabling the crew to have a more relaxed time and to feel safer and more comfortable. The fact, that the hull is cured, baked at high temperatures for almost 24 hours, not only optimises the hull material properties, but also minimises the risk of the darker coloured hull surfaces to suddenly start posturing, losing the surface finish.

With over 10 years of experience building epoxy infused yachts, X-Yachts took the decision in 2018 to build all models using this technology, one of the only yacht builders to do so.

Construction

At the heart of the X4⁰, is the galvanised steel keel grillage structure. Pioneered by X-Yachts back in 1981, the galvanised steel hull girder offers superb reassurance and safety. Its primary role, is to spread keel and mast loads into the hull. It also enables the yacht to withstand extreme shock loads from grounding or an impact with a submersed object.

Not only is the keel structure immensely strong, it is also reliable and very easy to inspect for potential damage.

Bolted to the steel grillage, is the keel with iron fin and heavy lead bulb with moderate draft. There is both a shallow and a deep draft option available.

Deck layout

The standard deck layout comes with: 4 winches, two halyards, self-tacker sheet and control line winches next to the entrance, and two main sheet winches aft of the cockpit’s backrest coamings, within reach of the helmsman. The deck has an integrated recessed self-tacker track for an 88% jib.

There is an option for coach roof top, longitudinal Genoa tracks and two dedicated Genoa sheet winches on top of the cockpit backrest coamings, enabling the Genoa size to go up to 106% for improved light wind performance.

Interior luxury

The interior of the X4⁰ is designed to maximise the space available, creating a functional, safe and stylish user experience below deck. Once again, the interior design will have Danish design flair and carpentry at its very best.

The craftsmanship and detailing will be of a very high standard, being both traditional but with a modern appearance. The wooden veneer will be Nordic Oak as standard, with other options on offer.

Two Cabin Layout

The two cabin layout has a head compartment with separate shower compartment and features a forward-facing navigation station with full length sofa.

Three Cabin Layout

The three cabin layout has an innovative aft facing chart table that can be neatly stowed out of the way when not in use. The three cabin layout is available from Spring 2020.

The X4⁰ can sail fast and point high to the wind thanks to its powerful lines, precision moulded composite T keel with a heavy bulb of lead giving a high degree of stability.

Specification

​European Yacht of the Year

Winner 2020.

Performance Cruiser

Cruising World – Boat of the Year

Winner 2021, ​sail magazine best boats, x4⁰ in the media.

September 2019

Statements translated from the test: “The design team of X-Yachts succeeded to design a new X4⁰, on which I have not much to remark. X stands for speed. X stands for quality. X stands for comfort.” “Conclusion: the X4⁰ is the perfect boat for the real sailor. There are no remarks to be made."

August 2019

Search Magazine

Text: Search Magazine

Voiles et Voiliers

Translated from French: The X4⁰ is a testimony of the know-how of the yard in terms of construction methods (hull in infusion, steel frame to sustain the load of keel and rig) as well as for quality of finish (very nice joinery, perfect adjustments).

October 2019

Vela E Motore

Floatmagazine.de

Yachting Monthly

She’s great fun, and has the nimble feel and speed that most 40-footers can only dream of. Her interior is stylish, practical and well put together, she’s easily handled by a couple and can take you cruising in speed and style.

November 2019

Sail Magazine

Read the full article here: https://www.sailmagazine.com/boats/boat-review-x-yachts-x4degree

Sailing Magazine

"The new ‘baby’ of the X-Yachts fleet is a 40-footer that is a real looker and a great performer"

Yacht Revue

REICH AN ERFAHRUNG X-Faktor. Die Werft legte bei der X 40 den Fokus nicht auf Zeitgeist, sondern setzte voll auf Funktionalität. Ein Zugang, der von Selbstbewusstsein zeugt

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Test / Construction of the X-Yachts 4°, an above-average quality

As part of our test of the X-4°, we investigated the successful production techniques of the X-Yachts yard. The opportunity to discover the manufacturing process of this boat, voluntarily reviving the concept of race-cruise.

A commercial success

The X-4° , the second boat in the Pur X range, revives the concept of a comfortable cruiser, which can occasionally line up at the start of the regatta with a potential for victory. It has been a real success since its launch. More than a hundred copies have been manufactured over the past two years. Five models, from 40 to 65 feet are in the 2019 catalogue and we are waiting for the announcement of a 56 and probably a 60 during the winter.

Modern lines

As with all models, the design comes from the Design Office headed by one of the three founders of the brand, Niels Jeppesen. The architectural choices are rather conservative, but executed with a certain modernism. The general line with the roof windows is closer to the Xp than the Xc.

A small 40 feet

A slightly marked bilge appears at two thirds of the length and rises towards the stern. Its straight bow with an optional bowsprit helps to christen it 4°, because the hull length is only 11.50 m (and not 13 m of a 40 feet). The unique rudder, designed in the shape of a whale's half-tail, is controlled by two wheel steering systems.

A steel frame for rigidity

The hull-deck connection is inside the flat edge which is an integral part of the sides. This process is made possible by the use of two half-moulds to infuse the shell. The T-keel is equipped with a torpedo bulb, like the performance range. Its sail is fixed to the hull by bolting on the famous galvanized steel frame which acts as a varangue and takes over the rigging forces. It is also used to sling the boat from a central point, proof of the designers' mastery of balance. However, instead of being laminated to the hull, it is now bolted to two thick fiberglass stringers integrated into the hull, making it even more reliable, practical and resistant in the event of a heel.

Quality that can be paid for in terms of manpower

Hulls and deck are made of epoxy resin/glass/cellular foam sandwich, vacuum infused and then cooked at 80° for 24 hours. The compromise between stiffness, strength and weight is therefore favoured as much as possible. The manual filling of the cutting fields, the reinforcements around the hull windows, the adjustment of the bulkheads in the deck counter moulds and the matt fabric layers under the gelcoat, are markers of the high quality of manufacture which still requires more than twice the time spent on the line than larger series models.