X-452
X-Yachts · Niels Jeppesen · 1987
Updated
The X-452 is a 13.09 m heavy displacement racing yacht designed by Niels Jeppesen and built by X-Yachts, first launched in 1987. It races in Class B.
Length
13.09 m
42′ 11″
Beam
4.20 m
Draft
2.49 m
Displacement
9.2 t
Sail area
111 m²
On the podium
Where a X-452 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
5%
of 19 starts by 2 boats
Wins
0%
Read from 19 starts by 2 boats between 2015 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a X-452 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
"Πορος 2026"2026- "Νικολαος Σαρικαβαζης 2026"2026
- "Πορος 2025"2025
- "Ν. Σαρικαβαζη 2025"2025
- "Πορος 2024"2024
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
5%
of these races end on the podium
Who she races against
The designs a X-452 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
Moody 39 (7 meetings), First 35 (Farr) (7 meetings), X-35 (6 meetings), J/11 (6 meetings), J/99 (6 meetings), ILC 40 (5 meetings), Sun Fast 3200 (5 meetings), Dehler 35 (Voogd) (5 meetings), X-412 (4 meetings), Mount Gay 30 (4 meetings), Dehler 30 OD (4 meetings), J/105 (4 meetings), First 47.7 (4 meetings), First 41 (3 meetings), Caribbean 40 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 37 (Design) (3 meetings), J/44 (3 meetings), Dufour 38 (3 meetings), Sun Fast 37 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 45 (Judel/Vrolijk) (3 meetings), First 45 (Briand) (2 meetings), Nek 26 (2 meetings), Platu 25 (3 meetings), Feeling 109 (2 meetings), X-332 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 37 (Carkeek) (3 meetings), Selection 37 (2 meetings), First 44.7 (1 meeting), Sun Odyssey 45 (1 meeting), First 34.7 (1 meeting), First 211 (1 meeting), J/80 (1 meeting)
Some of the boats it races against
How the X-452 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
5.73
36°
Beam reach
8.72
90°
Broad reach
9.43
135°
Downwind VMG
8.08
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 is a light-air boat. In the light it does more than its numbers promise, and gives some of that back when the wind arrives.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on the beat once it pipes up, 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 once it pipes up, 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 0.6 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the upwind.
How fast is a X-452
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.85 | 5.17 | 5.60 | 5.73 |
| 52° | 5.85 | 7.33 | 7.72 | 7.86 |
| 60° | 6.13 | 7.50 | 7.88 | 8.06 |
| 75° | 6.33 | 7.63 | 8.08 | 8.39 |
| 90° | 6.21 | 7.64 | 8.20 | 8.72 |
| 110° | 5.93 | 7.73 | 8.47 | 9.30 |
| 120° | 5.75 | 7.63 | 8.43 | 9.57 |
| 135° | 5.15 | 7.25 | 8.21 | 9.43 |
| 150° | 4.35 | 6.51 | 7.76 | 8.84 |
| Run VMG | 3.76 | 5.64 | 6.90 | 8.08 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Roughly half carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 740 kg.
Rigging
X-452 rig and sail dimensions
A X-452 carries 15.92 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.09 m boom, a forestay 17.83 m above the deck and a 5.39 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 3 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails