X-482
X-Yachts · Niels Jeppesen · 1996
Updated
The X-482 is a 14.50 m displacement racing yacht designed by Niels Jeppesen and built by X-Yachts, first launched in 1996. It races in Class A. Across the measured fleet it goes better than its own numbers promise, ahead of 11% of the designs it races against.
Goes better than its own measurements promise, and does it better than 11% of the boats it races against.
41st of 46 in its class.
This design has been found in real race results — 8 starts across 8 events — not only in measurement files.
Length
14.50 m
47′ 7″
Beam
4.30 m
Draft
2.46 m
Displacement
12.7 t
Sail area
130 m²
On the podium
Where a X-482 finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
0
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.
Read from 8 starts by 3 boats between 2021 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a X-482 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Regata Brindisi-Corfù2026
Rolex Middle Sea Race2025- Regata Brindisi-Corfù2025
- Regata Brindisi-Corfù2024
Int. Deutsche Meisterschaft Offshore Seesegeln2024
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
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Not enough data yet: 6 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a X-482 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Met too few times for a figure:
Dufour 40 (6 meetings), Grand Soleil 40 (Paperini) (7 meetings), First 40.7 (6 meetings), Sun Fast 3600 (4 meetings), Xp 44 (5 meetings), M 37 (4 meetings), First 36.7 (4 meetings), Millenium 40 (3 meetings), Dufour 34 (3 meetings), Salona 41 (3 meetings), Farr 39 (3 meetings), X-35 (3 meetings), Mumm 36 (3 meetings), Sun Odyssey 42 (Lombard) (4 meetings), Cookson 50 (2 meetings), X-41 (2 meetings), Bavaria Match 38 (2 meetings), Grand Soleil 46 (Carkeek) (2 meetings), Italia 9.98 (2 meetings), X-412 (3 meetings), Comet 45 (3 meetings), Oceanis 43 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 440 (4 meetings), Bavaria Match 42 (2 meetings), Bavaria 40 (2 meetings), Caravela 950 (2 meetings), Swan 46 (1 meeting), Knierim 49 (1 meeting), Mat 118 (1 meeting), X-43 (1 meeting), Pogo 10.50 (1 meeting), Pogo 44 (1 meeting), Pac 52 (1 meeting), Sun Fast 3300 (Andrieu) (1 meeting), Sun Fast 3200 (1 meeting), JPK 10.30 (2 meetings), Irc 52 (1 meeting), TP 52 (Carkeek) (1 meeting), Comet 38 (Vallicelli) (1 meeting), Arcona 380 (1 meeting)
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
5.84
39°
Beam reach
9.27
90°
Broad reach
10.15
135°
Downwind VMG
8.73
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 a reach in moderate air, where it goes better than its measurements say it should, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage upwind as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
It falls short on a broad reach once it pipes up, 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 beam reach.
How fast is a X-482
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.85 | 5.25 | 5.69 | 5.84 |
| 52° | 5.90 | 7.66 | 8.12 | 8.28 |
| 60° | 6.22 | 7.89 | 8.36 | 8.52 |
| 75° | 6.43 | 8.04 | 8.61 | 8.90 |
| 90° | 6.34 | 8.10 | 8.74 | 9.27 |
| 110° | 6.17 | 8.25 | 9.05 | 9.74 |
| 120° | 6.03 | 8.16 | 9.08 | 10.08 |
| 135° | 5.38 | 7.69 | 8.79 | 10.15 |
| 150° | 4.50 | 6.79 | 8.29 | 9.55 |
| Run VMG | 3.90 | 5.89 | 7.35 | 8.73 |
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 700 kg.
Rigging
X-482 rig and sail dimensions
A X-482 carries 17.60 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.70 m boom, a forestay 19.82 m above the deck and a 6.41 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 11 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 147 to 196 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.