FORTE — EST 475
Model: X-41
Updated
FORTE (EST 475) is a X-41 designed by Niels Jeppesen and built by X-Yachts. She has been racing since 2021 and has won 11 races. She sails with a shallower keel than most X-41s. Against a typical X-41 she is quicker downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats65
Race starts
11
Wins
51%
Podiums
79
Race Edge
X-41: 67
502.6s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
12.35 m
40′ 6″
Beam
3.65 m
Draft
2.50 m
Displacement
7.0 t
Sail area
99 m²
On the podium
Where FORTE finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
51%
of 65 starts · X-41 fleet: 30%
Wins
17%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with FORTE on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
- Garmin ORC World Championship20251089771016
Baltic Offshore Week 2025 - ORC EST and FIN Championship202531322633- ORC European Championship20244717233655
Baltic Offshore Week 2024 - ORC EST and FIN Championship20242356114- E4 Championship W/L20245123311
- Tallinn Championship W/L20231342
- E4 Championship W/L - FINEST Offshore Series2023312311
- Alexela ORC World Championship202181841113547
- A.Le Coq 64. Muhu Vaina Regatt / Moonsund Regatta 2021 - offshore202128334112
- A.Le Coq 64. Muhu Vaina Regatt - Parnu lyhirada / inshore2021143
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Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat.
Round the buoys
47%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
23%
of these races end on the podium
Sharper round the buoys. Short courses reward acceleration and manoeuvring, and that is where this design makes its money.
14 more races without a published distance count in the podium figures, not in this split.
Who she races against
The boats FORTE meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Show more rivals (59)
Other competitors (10)
Met too few times for a figure.
AMSERV TOYOTA ST (First 36.7, 7 meetings), BRIGITTA-X (X-34, 7 meetings), KIRA (Corby 33, 7 meetings), FORMULA X (XR 41, 7 meetings), DIXI 5 (XR 41, 7 meetings), EXCITER (XR 41, 7 meetings), WINDWHISPER44 (Grand Soleil 44 (Polli), 7 meetings), XBOX (XR 41, 7 meetings), JOINT VENTURE 4.0 (X-41, 7 meetings), AJA (X-41, 7 meetings)
How FORTE compares with a typical X-41
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, X-41s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical X-41; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.8 kn either way.
At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical X-41 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
FORTE in blue, a typical X-41 dashed.
FORTE in blue, a typical X-41 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other X-41s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the X-41
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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