X-Yachts X4°

There’s something especially fun about sailing a boat on the home waters of the company that built it. And when you’re sailing the latest performance-cruiser from X-Yachts, the X40, on the “Little Belt,” just down the road from the company’s squeaky-clean yard in Haderslev, Denmark, the experience is out of this world.

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION

Not coincidently splashing on X-Yachts’s 40th anniversary, the 40ft X40 boasts the same top-notch build quality sailors have come to expect ever since the company launched its very first design, the X-79, back in 1979.

At the heart of the new boat is a trademark X-Yachts galvanized steel grid, which serves to anchor the boat’s keel and also help manage rig loads. The rest of the hull is