SURPRISE — GER 8207
Model: Xp 44
Updated
SURPRISE (GER 8207) is a Xp 44 designed by Niels Jeppesen and built by X-Yachts. She has been racing since 2022. She sails with a shallower keel than most Xp 44s. Against a typical Xp 44 she is quicker on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats8
Race starts
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Wins
0%
Podiums
84
Race Edge
Xp 44: 61
484.2s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
13.29 m
43′ 7″
Beam
4.05 m
Draft
2.68 m
Displacement
9.5 t
Sail area
113 m²
On the podium
Where SURPRISE finishes when she goes racing.
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Wins
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Seconds
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Thirds
8
Starts
Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.
Regattas
Every regatta we found with SURPRISE on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
ORCi European Championship20221912151717171817
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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
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Not enough data yet: 6 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 2 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats SURPRISE meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
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How SURPRISE compares with a typical Xp 44
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Xp 44s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Xp 44; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Xp 44 on the beam reach.
Speed at every angle
SURPRISE in blue, a typical Xp 44 dashed.
SURPRISE in blue, a typical Xp 44 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Xp 44s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Xp 44
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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