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The X-Yachts Owners Association (XYOA) was set up in 2011 by a group of UK X-Yachts Owners to promote camaraderie, rallies, racing, social events and the sharing of information within the fleet. While initially focused on UK, Channel Islands and Irish owners, the XYOA has seen growing overseas interest including sailors who keep their X-Yachts abroad as well as owners from other countries. Some of our members are on Mediterranean, Caribbean and world cruises. We now have ~ 150 members from 17 countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Guernsey, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Wales. Between us, our members own 31 different X-Yachts models – over half the models ever built.
The XYOA hosts several UK based events throughout the year including sailing cruises and shore-based events at unique locations. X-Yachts GB&I run a bi-annual Solent Cup racing weekend for XYOA members. Our members also meet up with one another when away cruising, be it in UK waters or overseas. We offer on-the-water training days, which have included North Sails sail handling and trimming days, and a Ladies boat handling day which proved very popular.
To support owners regardless of home port, we have developed a content rich website, an active private WhatsApp group and a winter webinar series where owners share information and promote learning amongst the fleet. Members are never far from help. We support one another in a range of ways including helping to fix technical issues, maintenance tips and tricks, spare parts sourcing, equipment choices and upgrades, and sharing of information on ports, cruising areas, passages, and races.
The Association also offers its members a range of exclusive offers, with discounts on items such as sails, electronic equipment, winches and insurance.
The X-Yachts Owners Association has a reputation for running fun, friendly events where like-minded X-Yacht owners can share their enjoyment of sailing these wonderful yachts as well has help exchange tips and ideas on everything X-Yacht related. To find out more and how to become a member, please visit www.x-yachtsowners.co.uk.
The Dutch Owners Association (X-Yachts Club Nederland) was founded in 2013 and has over a hundred members. While most members are based in the Netherlands, 3 are based in Belgium.
The Club organizes a wide range of activities with a view to increasing your pleasure in sailing and your knowledge of the X-Yachts. For example:
Most of these activities are organized in close association with the Dutch dealer.
Apart from being useful and fun, you get the chance to meet other owners and exchange tips and ideas on anything related to X-Yachts.
To find out more and how to become a member, please visit www.xclubnederland.nl
The X-Yacht Owners Association of Australia & New Zealand (XYOAANZ) was founded as a registered Association in 2023 to promote the X-Yacht community across Australia & New Zealand.
The members are based in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific – but membership is open to other X-Yacht Owners across the globe.
The XYOAANZ hosts several events during the year including:
To support the group there is an XYOAANZ Facebook page X-Yacht Owners Association of Australia & New Zealand and a website www.xyoaanz.com to provide a strong virtual network between owners. Members support each other in a variety of ways including sharing sailing tips, crew register and technical advice. The XYOAANZ also has exclusive offers and discounts from time to time on sailing equipment, sails, electronics and travel.
For more information on joining the X-Yacht Owners Association of Australia & New Zealand please email Kevin Wallis (e) kw@x-yachts.com.au
The X-Yachts Owner’s Association of Italy was founded in April 2023, when 7 pioneer owners met for lunch on the Poet’s Gulf in the northern Thyrrenian Sea.
Since the beginning, it was clear that the common passion for sailing had to be mixed with the pride of being X-Yachts owners.
The aim of the association, which has quickly reached more than 20 boats and owners, is to share their passions, improve the knowledge of their boats, organize activities related to the sailing world and on other fields, and last but not least to contribute to providing new and uncommon opportunities to people with disabilities or conditions of hardship.
The association has already visited the boatyard in Denmark, and the members had the chance to admire where their loved boats are produced and steal some of the secrets that made their boats so special.
42* 45,7’ N 010* 23,8’E : Porto Azzurro, Elba island, is the nice location where the first X-Yachts Italian Association meeting took place, from 17th to 19th May 2024.
7 boats, 20 persons coming from different locations gathered together to spend a couple of days sailing and having fun. Not bad, being the very first meeting organised by the new Italian Association, which was founded about a year ago. And even better considering that the meteo conditions in the days before the forecasted meeting have not been favourable, being a bit rainy and with some waves. Fortunately, the weather conditions improved and so we’ve been able to have a very good time in the blu Mediterranean Sea with a non-competitive sailing around the little islands of Cerboli and Palmaiola, in the eastern part of Elba Island, and also anchoring in the lovely bay of Ortano, to enjoy a jump in the sea.
Back to the little harbour, we joined together on a XP55 for drinking some good wine and of course talking about our boats and our navigations, sharing our experiences, as all sailors do when they meet, and of course our pleasure in sailing with X-YACHTS boats!
And how to describe the pleasure of a great fish dinner in a nice restaurant facing the sea in Porto Azzurro? Of course, being Italians, we particularly loved this moment! And we had a long and nice time around the table, despite many of us having to leave early in the morning after, 5am, to sail back to the harbour of destination.
But all of us are happy and satisfied with the time spent together and the strong friendship created among crews and already thinking and projecting the next event, with the goal to create the same good atmosphere and the same “crew spirit”, but…being more boats and more persons!
So, dear friends of X-Yachts…up to the next occasion, why not even with some boats coming from other countries, they could?
If you are an X-Yachts owner you can contact the association at the following email address: info@xyoa-ita.com
