X-442
X-Yachts · Niels Jeppesen · 1993
Updated
The X-442 is a 13.48 m displacement racing yacht designed by Niels Jeppesen and built by X-Yachts, first launched in 1993. It races in Class B. Across the measured fleet it goes better than its own numbers promise, ahead of 34% of the designs it races against. It is at its best in light air and struggles to hold that once it blows.
Goes better than its own measurements promise, and does it better than 34% of the boats it races against.
61st of 92 in its class.
This design has been found in real race results — 30 starts across 16 events — not only in measurement files.
Length
13.48 m
44′ 3″
Beam
4.16 m
Draft
2.32 m
Displacement
10.2 t
Sail area
117 m²
On the podium
Where a X-442 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
7%
of 30 starts by 6 boats
Wins
3%
Read from 30 starts by 6 boats between 2010 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a X-442 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Aegean Regatta2026- Aegean Regatta2025
Hollænderseilasen2025- Aegean Regatta2024
Campionato di Primavera2022
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: 6 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
5%
of these races end on the podium
Who she races against
The designs a X-442 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
First 35 (Farr) (7 meetings), Elan 410 (7 meetings), IMX 40 (6 meetings), JOD 35 (5 meetings), X-562 (5 meetings), X-372 (5 meetings), First 31.7 (5 meetings), Elan 31 (Design) (5 meetings), Hanse 370 (5 meetings), Bavaria 36 (5 meetings), Optima 101 (5 meetings), Oceanis 50 (5 meetings), First 29 (5 meetings), Olympic Sea 42 (5 meetings), Hallberg Rassy 26 (5 meetings), Dufour 3800 (5 meetings), Rush 31 (5 meetings), First 41 (5 meetings), Dromor 26 (5 meetings), First 45 (Farr) (5 meetings), X-35 (5 meetings), IMX 38 (5 meetings), Bavaria Match 35 (5 meetings)
Some of the boats it races against
How the X-442 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
5.82
38°
Beam reach
9.04
90°
Broad reach
9.74
135°
Downwind VMG
8.46
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.
It is an upwind boat first. Windward-leeward courses give it more of what it is good at than a coastal race does.
Where it gains
Its best ground is to windward in a strong breeze, where it does more than its size and sail area promise, and by a margin worth having.
Where it pays
It falls short on a broad reach in a strong breeze, giving away time it never gets back. That is a displacement hull working to its designed speed.
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-442
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.86 | 5.22 | 5.65 | 5.82 |
| 52° | 5.88 | 7.51 | 7.95 | 8.11 |
| 60° | 6.18 | 7.70 | 8.15 | 8.33 |
| 75° | 6.37 | 7.82 | 8.36 | 8.69 |
| 90° | 6.22 | 7.83 | 8.43 | 9.04 |
| 110° | 5.89 | 7.88 | 8.70 | 9.46 |
| 120° | 5.73 | 7.77 | 8.66 | 9.77 |
| 135° | 5.14 | 7.37 | 8.44 | 9.74 |
| 150° | 4.35 | 6.60 | 7.99 | 9.22 |
| Run VMG | 3.76 | 5.72 | 7.14 | 8.46 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. Crew weight is declared around 850 kg.
Rigging
X-442 rig and sail dimensions
A X-442 carries 15.90 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.11 m boom, a forestay 18.07 m above the deck and a 5.72 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 9 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 115 to 171 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.