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Conor Doyle’s XP50 ‘Freya’ from Kinsale Yacht Club starts in Saturday's 450-mile Palermo to Montecarlo Race as the sole Irish entry in the Italian classic. An international fleet of 56 boats will race in the fixture organised by the Circolo…

X-Yachts GB have introduced a new summer gardiennage menu which will run in the Hamble area during the summer months. “We hope this will further increase your enjoyment and maintain the value of your X-Yacht,” the company says of the…

The Island Sailing Club put on a spectacular 90th anniversary party for the 2021 Round the Island Race, and there was an excellent turnout of X-Yachts in both the IRC & ISC classes — with some notable silverware won by…

With the healthy sailing season bursting into life all around us - and doing so almost regardless of the various stages of pandemic-emergence ashore - there’s a shortage of quality used boats available worldwide, and particularly in Ireland. So news…

One of most popular X-Yachts models, the X4³, is going through a serious makeover process. This boat was the first model in the Pure X range and was introduced to the world for the first time in 2016. Since then…

The X-Yachts Solent Cup returned for 2021 over the UK spring bank holiday weekend (28-30 May) and was blessed with blue skies and superb sailing conditions in the Solent, with hosts the Royal Southern Yacht Club providing for smoothly run…

X-Yachts welcomes everyone to experience first-hand the soul and heritage of its brand at the South Coast Boat Show in Southampton this coming weekend. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the X4⁹ will be part of X-Yachts’ presence at Ocean Village…

Spring has sprung in Denmark, prompting the X-Yachts team to take the new X-Power 33C — dubbed ‘The Red Baron’ — out of the Haderslev yard. Chief executive Kræn Brinck Nielsen joined Kasper Brinck Mair and Martin Lindbæk, sales manager…

X-Yachts has unveiled a busy calendar of in-person events in Southampton from spring to autumn of 2021, restrictions allowing. The schedule kicks off with a chance to experience the X4⁹ at Hamble Point Marina from 9-11 April. Reservations for time…

X-Yachts has announced that the 2021 Solent Cup will go ahead as planned in May — with top photographer Rick Tomlinson set to be on hand to snap boats and crews in the best light. But the event at the…

Taking stock of the current situation around COVID-19 and gatherings for large events, X-Yachts and Sailing Aarhus have agreed to postpone the X-Yachts Gold Cup 2021 from May to August. Seventy X-Yachts are now registered for the event from 26-29…

Make your yachting dreams a reality this summer and become the owner of a brand-new X-Yachts X4⁰ for delivery this July. The top performance cruiser in the 2020 European Yacht of the Year awards can be delivered to the UK…

Following its launch in November 2020, followed by an extensive test sailing period, X-Yachts celebrated the world premiere of the X5⁶ — the new sailing flagship of the Pure X Range, earlier this year. Now the Danish luxury performance specialists…

X-Yachts’ Danish yard has only a limited number of build slots left for sailing in the 2021 season, restrictions allowing. If you are ready to use sailing as your ‘escape’ in 2021, you can choose from the X4⁰, X4³, X4⁶,…

Pandemic concerns have prompted a change of plans for the launch of X-Yachts’ latest gem, the X-Power 33C — which will now be live-streamed in a virtual event this coming Saturday 16 January. Tune in from 11.30am CET (10.30am Irish/UK…

Following her recent launch at X-Yachts headquarters in Denmark, the new X5⁶ performance cruiser was test-sailed for the first time this past weekend. Among the crew for the coastal jaunt were X-Yachts chief executive Kræn Brinck Nielsen and the company’s…