The X-Yachts X46 MkII is a 44-foot performance cruiser offering three double cabins in a well-proven hull. At 11,365 kg displacement with 4,500 kg ballast, she balances comfort and sailing performance. Standard and deep draft options suit varied cruising grounds. The Yanmar engine is upgradable to 80 hp.
Length
13.5M
Beam
4.27M
Draft
2.3M
Day Guests
Sleeping
6
Cabin
3
Cruise Speed
Max Speed
Fuel
280L
Engine
Yanmar 57 hp (41.9 kW)
Naval
X-Yachts Design
New Starting From
€550,000
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The mainsheet is where most of the difference is felt.
A German sheeting circuit now carries mainsheet adjustment directly to both helm stations, rather than leaving it to a cockpit floor system the helmsman cannot always reach without calling for a hand. Traveller control improves, and rope flow through the cockpit stays smoother underway, two details that matter more across a long day at sea than they do on the dock. Longer coamings behind each wheel give the person steering real support downwind or in a lumpy sea, instead of bracing against nothing. None of this changes how she sails upwind. It changes how tired her crew feels after doing it for six hours straight.
Her bow carries the family’s newest signature.
The S bow, already proven on newer Pure X models, lets the X46 MkII carry a genuinely larger anchor without disturbing the deck layout or hanging extra hardware off the stem. Aft, the cockpit skirt opens wider at the rear, which improves circulation around the helm and makes the swim platform easier to reach when the boat is stopped. The cockpit itself carries longer benches and redesigned side backrests, small changes that read as evolution rather than redesign, consistent with how X-Yachts has treated every Pure X update so far: refine what works, leave the proportions alone.
Three cabins, a familiar footprint, nothing left to guess at.
X-Yachts has left the hull and the accommodation exactly where they were, which means existing X46 owners already know what they are getting: three cabins sleeping six, arranged around the volume that made the model a steady seller in the first place. This update was never about redrawing the interior. It was about the deck and the cockpit, the parts of the boat a crew touches every single day underway. For an owner planning frequent cruising with regular stops in proper harbours rather than one long unbroken passage, that focus on daily usability matters more than a reworked saloon ever would.
She is built for a cruising rhythm, not an ocean crossing.
A 57 horsepower diesel, 280 litres of fuel and 360 litres of fresh water sit comfortably in the middle of the range for a yacht this size: enough for a proper cruising schedule of island hops and coastal passages with stops along the way, without pretending to be a boat built for unbroken ocean miles. That is precisely the brief X-Yachts set for her. The X46 MkII is sized for the sailing most owners actually do, under sail as much as possible, under power when the wind will not cooperate, and back in a marina or a quiet anchorage most nights.
The philosophy here is restraint, not reinvention.
X-Yachts designer Peter Schmidt describes the brief behind the X46 MkII as changes that sailors feel immediately, not ones buried in a specification sheet. At 11,365 kilograms with 4,500 kilograms of that carried low as ballast, and a choice of 2.3 or 2.5 metre draught, she keeps the stability and seakeeping her range is known for. What has changed sits entirely above the waterline, in the cockpit, the bow and the way a crew moves around the boat, which is exactly where X-Yachts believes a working update earns its keep.
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