X-Yachts X-35 - objective views?

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Hi. Appreciate any objective views on the X-35 if anyone has any!?
Read a few reports but have failed to see one in the flesh yet after being let down with a viewing/test sail in Spain.
Any views welcome whether it be cost, practability, performance etc.
Thanks, Rob /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Don't know much about the X-35 but the X-362 S Musk Ox owned by Dr Neville Devonport won its class in the AZAB 2007.
We also have an X332 called Xtorsion8 at our club owned by Dave Oliver which does quite well in club races.
 
I think I read somewhere that they made sandwich hulls but without vacuum bagging which the article seemed to think was poor practise. cant remember for sure but worth checking.
 
I also believe they are made with a steel inner frame. Great for stiffness and strength, but I wonder about corrosion in the long term. Any views on this?
 
Been racing against X35s a bit recently, and have to say that in the light stuff they seem to be a weapon!
Their crews have said that they're a real handful in the fresh stuff though.
 
Replied to your other posting regarding this....

However, some friends purchased an X35 shortly after, a year or so, after we got our J109. We have raced, IRC, against one another a number of occasions, from our point of view they look light yet appear to be a handful in the breeze. Otherwise cracking looking pukka racer/cruiser.

Anyway like I said in the other reply, get a J109!

You can rig demon IRC ratings on the J, eg we raced on 1.006 in 2007.
 
I think all or most X-yachts have metal frames and have not heard of any problems. The X-35 is indeed very light (lighter than a J/109 but not as easy to sail).
 
Check out the class rules. I believe (having been told by someone who was considering buying one) that the class rules prohibit a race being started if the wind is above a Force 5.

I would be very worried by this - doesn't show much confidence in the boat in a blow. I certainly wouldn't want to go offshore in one if this is the case. I believe they are very good in light airs though.

Ed
 
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