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The X4⁶ – World Premiere in August 2018!

Wednesday 9th May 2018

At the Boot Düsseldorf in January, the first sketches for the next Pure X model was introduced, the X46.

Since January, the development and building process has been running in a high gear, and within the next couple of weeks, the boat will go into the assembly phase at our yard in Denmark. According to our skilled project manager, the boat will ready for launch in August after which it will be sailed directly to the Autumn boat shows around Europe.

X-Yachts Design Director, Niels Jeppesen about the X46:

“This boat will be the ideal family cruiser, that can also get a bit racy at the weekend; It’s fast, stylish and safe. The sailing experience for an X Yacht is meant to be outstanding, and we dare to promise that the X46 will come standard with those build and design features, which for almost four decades have set X Yachts apart”.

Download the X46 brochure

Read more about the X46 on our website

Any questions? Please contact our sales department at +45 74 52 10 22.

You can also contact your local dealer for your own personal configuration of the boat.

From March 2018 Press Release:

Hull
The hull design follows the latest design philosophy which maximises the recognized and appreciated sailing performance, a design, which excels in light medium up to strong breezes, due to a generous sail plan sitting on a high quality mast and rig, including standard discontinued rod rigging. It is all fitted to an optimized hull shape, built with X Yachts advanced technology, including epoxy infusion, and finally incorporating X Yachts famous steel hull/keel girder to hold the composite lead in place in all conditions.

Deck
The deck lay out is a combination of the features of both her siblings, self-tacker genoa standard, the sheet handled via one of the halyard winches, and the mainsheet coming back to within the reach of the helmsman.

Wheel
The double wheel steering, is connected via two individual quadrants, and make a emergency steering tiller obsolete, as it is two independent steering systems, a great added safety feature.

Winches, port light and hatches
Large Harken self-tailing winches are standard, as are toughened glass coach roof port light, of which 2 of them each side are openable for improved ventilation. As on the X49, outboard facing coaming port lights, openable, helps to improve both the interiors natural light as well as the ventilation. Each aft cabin will have three openable hatches, port light ensuring optimum ventilation.
Behind the wheels are two cockpit floor hatches, each with integrated adjustable helmsman foot chocks, giving access to the huge lazarette.

Cockpit
Teak comes standard in the cockpit, on the seats and on the sole, and is optional on the side decks and on the coach roof top, as well on the optional electrical operated bathing platform.

Entrance to the interior passes through a cockpit sole recessed washboard system, resting in a self-draining well. A cockpit bench locker is standard in starboard cockpit bench and can accommodate a 6 or 8 person optional lifer aft.

Entrance
The entrance ladder is hiding the yachts ultra-modern common rail diesel engine, delivering 57 HP as standard and 80 HP as an option. The engine compartment is sound insulated utilising “Super Yacht” specification including a heavy 8 mm solid rubber layer, 50 mm special Rockwool and finally covered with a perforated aluminium plating. All openings are foreseen with double rubber seals to eliminate noise to pultrude. The engine is delivered with a standard 2 blade Flex O Fold folding propeller to maximise the sailing performance under sail.

Interior
The interior layout is having two identical aft cabins with one difference that the port aft cabin is 1500 mm wider, enabling this cabin to be offered in a split berth version, incl to single berths and a “in fill” bridge and cushion to enable a large double berth. Both aft cabins are offered with either a top freeboard shelve with stainless steel railing or a freeboard hung adjustable pipe berth. Both aft cabins have large double wardrobes.
The large owner’s cabin accommodates a king sized double berth.

Large L shaped galley with large top loaded standard fridge and option for frontloaded fridge, as well as microwave oven and Nespresso coffee machine, and plenty of space for food, pots and pans, crockery and cutlery.

The yacht has two bathrooms, one aft of the nav station to service the two aft cabins. The owners ensuite bathroom comes with a separate shower compartment.

Electronic equipment
To starboard a forward facing nav station with drawers below the nav table, electrical switchboard and space for optional navigational, communicational and radio equipment behind locker doors.