X-402
X-Yachts · Niels Jeppesen · 1984
Updated
The X-402 is a 12.09 m heavy displacement racing yacht designed by Niels Jeppesen and built by X-Yachts, first launched in 1984. It races in Class B.
Length
12.09 m
39′ 8″
Beam
3.97 m
Draft
2.24 m
Displacement
6.4 t
Sail area
83 m²
On the podium
Where a X-402 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
18%
of 11 starts by 2 boats
Wins
0%
Read from 11 starts by 2 boats between 2020 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a X-402 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
151 Miglia - Trofeo Cetilar2026
"Ειρηνης & Φιλιας - Βαθυ Μεθανων 2025"2025- 151 Miglia - Trofeo Cetilar2025
- "Κυπελλο Αμφιθεας 2024"2024
- "Κυπελλο Αμφιθεας 2023"2023
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
18%
of these races end on the podium
Who she races against
The designs a X-402 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
Dromor 26 (6 meetings), Sun Odyssey 36.2 (6 meetings), First 45 (Farr) (6 meetings), X-332 (5 meetings), Gib Sea 312 (5 meetings), Elan 40 (4 meetings), Comet 850 (4 meetings), Sun Odyssey 40 (4 meetings), Melody (4 meetings), Sun Odyssey 37.1 (5 meetings), First 28 (4 meetings), Sun Shine 36 (4 meetings), Gib Sea 402 (4 meetings), Sun Fast 37 (3 meetings), First 30 (Berret) (3 meetings), Maxi 84 (3 meetings), First 38 (5 meetings), Dehler 38 (Stadt) (3 meetings), Feeling 920 (4 meetings), Hallberg Rassy 352 (4 meetings), Rush 31 (3 meetings), Dufour 35 (3 meetings), Elan 45 (3 meetings), Moody 34 (3 meetings), Sun Odyssey 45.1 (3 meetings), Dufour 325 (3 meetings), Sun Odyssey 29.2 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 39 (Jézéquel) (3 meetings), First 30 (Mauric) (2 meetings), Ecume De Mer (2 meetings), Grand Soleil 34 (Finot) (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 32 (2 meetings), Sigma 33 (3 meetings), Oyster 37 (2 meetings), Sun Fast 32 (2 meetings)
Some of the boats it races against
How the X-402 has fared against each of them, boat against boat on corrected time. Ordered by how often the two meet, not by who wins.
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
5.46
37°
Beam reach
8.49
90°
Broad reach
9.54
135°
Downwind VMG
7.93
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
This one is at home going to windward. Windward-leeward courses give it more of what it is good at than a coastal race does.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on the beat in light air, where it outruns what it looks like on paper, and by a margin worth having.
Where it pays
It falls short off the wind in a strong breeze, giving away time it never gets back. That is weight that has to be driven rather than released.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. 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 this design makes back more than its rating asks on the upwind.
How fast is a X-402
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.66 | 4.93 | 5.34 | 5.46 |
| 52° | 5.54 | 6.99 | 7.42 | 7.54 |
| 60° | 5.80 | 7.15 | 7.60 | 7.76 |
| 75° | 5.96 | 7.28 | 7.80 | 8.11 |
| 90° | 5.82 | 7.37 | 7.85 | 8.49 |
| 110° | 5.78 | 7.49 | 8.30 | 9.11 |
| 120° | 5.64 | 7.42 | 8.30 | 9.50 |
| 135° | 5.06 | 7.11 | 8.09 | 9.54 |
| 150° | 4.28 | 6.41 | 7.56 | 8.77 |
| Run VMG | 3.71 | 5.55 | 6.79 | 7.93 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 640 kg.
Rigging
X-402 rig and sail dimensions
A X-402 carries 14.00 m of mainsail hoist on a 4.02 m boom, a forestay 15.91 m above the deck and a 4.81 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 5 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 97 to 125 m² depending on bowsprit and set-up. Before ordering a sail, read the figure on your own measurement record rather than the typical one for the design.