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Plymouth Summer Rally 2023

The 2023 XYOA rally is to Queen Anne’s Battery, Plymouth, Devon, UK. Plymouth has a rich maritime history with many interesting sights including The Barbican, National Marine Aquarium, Mayflower Steps ...

XYOA X-Yachts Factory Visit 2023

On the afternoon Tuesday 21 March 2023, 41 X-Yacht owners and their wives/partners checked-in at London Heathrow to fly to Billund, Denmark. Despite the 2 hour delay in taking-off, it ...

2022 Autumn Rally & North Sails On the Water Day Write-up

On the Friday, 8 X-Yachts owners went out sailing for the day with Jeremy Smart from North Sails, sailing an X4.3 in the morning and an Xc45 in the afternoon ...

2022 Solent Cup Report

Report as seen from La Nef IV in the Sports Class. On Friday all boats began to assemble at the Royal Southern yacht Club for registration followed by a very ...

XYOA Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

On the 9th & 10th October 2021, the X-Yachts Owners Association celebrated it's 10 year anniversary with a rally and lunch at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes. 13 X-Yachts ...

2019 Autumn Rally Report to Yarmouth

An Autumn gale didn't dampen spirits at the 2019 XYOA Autumn Rally to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, UK. 1 week before the event, we had 19 X-Yachts and ...

Cowes Week X4.3 Baby X Success

The 2019 regatta will be remembered as one of the more windy and hardcore Cowes Week's. With a roll of unseasonably deep low pressures lined up during the week it ...

Dartmouth Music Festival Spring Rally Report

Despite strong wind warnings and cold temperatures 14 X-Yachts eventually gathered in Dartmouth for the XYOA rally. Some yachts had sailed in company within VHF range from the Solent and ...

2019 Fitting Out Dinner & AGM Report

On 23 March 2019, over 5o members, family, friends, and representatives from X-Yachts GB&I gathered at the historic Mary Rose exhibition in Portsmouth for our annual AGM and fitting out ...

2018 Autumn Rally Report

The XYOA had its best attended rally for a while with 13 X-Yachts providing a great sight in Cowes Yacht Haven. A further 6 members turned up for the event ...

On the Water Sail Handling & Tuning day with North Sails

On a glorious Friday before the Autumn Rally, a group of 11 XYOA members took to the water with Jeremy Smart from North Sails, to learn more about sail handling ...

North Sails and X-Yachts Winning Partnership of 40 Years

Since X-Yachts started boatbuilding in 1979, there has been a very strong connection between the three founders of X-Yachts and the three founding members of North Sails Denmark (at the ...

2018 Cowes Week X-Yachts Success

With idyllic sailing conditions at this years “Lendy Cowes Week“, a number of X-Yachts enjoyed fine racing. In class “Cruiser Division A” a fierce battle developed at the front of ...

2018 RTI Race Report

20 X-Yachts took part in this year’s Round the Island race. ISC Division 4A Class had close racing between a brand new X4.9, and an Xp50 and X50, with the ...

Cruising Association – Continued Discount to XYOA Members

A brief reminder from the Cruising Association. We offer a huge 25% discount for members of the X-Yachts Owners’ Association and each member will receive a free of charge 18 ...

2018 X-Yachts Solent Cup Report

From 4th May to 6th May this year’s X-Yachts GB Solent Cup returned to Hamble and The Royal Southern Yacht Club, who took care of the racing and our onshore ...

Dutch X-Yachts Owners Association

The Dutch X-Yachts Owners Association was formed in 2013 by three proud Dutch X-Yachts owners with the purpose of sharing information and experiences amongst Dutch owners through tour rallies, race ...

2018 Fitting Out Dinner & AGM – Sat 24 March

We are delighted to announce that a very special venue has been chosen for our Fitting Out Dinner and AGM - Brooklands Museum - the birthplace of British Motorsport and ...

Juno’s 2017 Rolex Fastnet …..

.......started back in October 2016 with a conversation with regular crew Mark who persuaded me to attempt to take Juno round the rock for a third time (and my 5th ...

Delivery Opportunities

We have recently been approached by X-Yachts (GB) Ltd to see whether there is any interest in members being given the opportunity to be involved in deliveries of X-Yachts. In ...

Round the Island Race 2017.

With ideal conditions, some 1300+ boats took on the challenge of the Round the Island Race on Saturday 1st July. Among them were a significant number of X-Yachts, many of ...

Solent Rally & Channel Cruise – 2017

The sail from Hamble to Lymington was interesting up to 32 knots at times with choppy seas but Alexis was fine reefed down and I was glad there were 4 ...

2017 Fitting Out Dinner Report

On a sunny Friday afternoon on the 24th March, nine intrepid members and guests took themselves across London to the FourPure Brewery in Bermondsey to learn how craft ales are ...

Cruising Association Membership Discount

The Owners Association is very pleased to announce that as a member you can now qualify for 25% discount of a Cruising Association (CA) membership for your first year’s membership ...

Rally to RYS – 2016

Over the weekend of Saturday 3rd September and Sunday 4th September the X-Yachts Owners Association held their Summer Rally, although you may be forgiven for thinking it was the winter ...

XYOA Channel Rally 2016

Cherbourg and Channel Isles Rally a huge success. On June 14th 4 intrepid X-Yachts owners met in Cherbourg for the inaugural cross channel rally. After an excellent meal at the ...

X-Yachts Solent Cup 2016 Report

With champagne sailing virtually throughout the weekend, a good time was had by all both on and off the water. From 29th April to 1st May this year’s X-Yachts GB ...