X5.6

Design

Designer

X-Yachts Design Team

Summary

Best Suited For

• Performance Cruising

  From the published figures: performance cruiser · 3 cabins

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 17.25 m · 3 cabins · fresh water 537 L

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

56.6 ft (17.25 m)

Hull length

54.4 ft (16.58 m)

LWL

49 ft (14.94 m)

Beam

16 ft (4.89 m)

Draft (min)

8.2 ft (2.5 m)

Draft (max)

10.8 ft (3.3 m)

Air draft

—

Displacement

41,447 lb (18,800 kg)

Ballast

15,873 lb (7,200 kg)

Cabins

3

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

—

Jib

—

Genoa

—

Sail area

—

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

110 hp (Yanmar)

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

Yanmar

Propulsion type

shaft drive with folding propeller

Fuel capacity

145 gal (550 L)

Fresh water capacity

142 gal (537 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

GRP epoxy infused

Deck material

—

Keel type

T keel

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Battery Charger & Inverter

3000 W/70A

Windlass

2000 W

Hotwater boiler

40 l

Holding Tank

55 l per toilet

Draft - Std

2.90 m

Anchor

32 kg

Brochure

About X-Yachts

Premium production

Danish builder of performance cruising sailboats, founded in 1979 and based in Haderslev, Denmark.

X-Yachts was established in Denmark in 1979 and through the 1980s designed and built winning IOR racers, which drew the cruising market to ask for fast, high-quality, comfortable yachts. The Performance Cruiser range was established in the 1990s, from the X-412 through the X-512, X-382, IMX 38, X-442, X-362, X-332, X-302, X-612 and X-482 to the X-562 of 1999; the IMX 40 racer opened the new millennium, the first X-73 of 2001 took the yard into luxury deep-water cruising, and the X-43 and X-46 of 2003 began a new generation, joined by the X-40, X-37 and X-50 in 2004 and the X-55 in 2006. The X-35 one-design of 2007 had two hundred boats racing worldwide as an ISAF class, followed by the X-41. The Xc 45, first of the Xcruising family, was European Yacht of the Year in 2009, joined by the Xc 42, 50 and 38 and today by the Xc 47; the Xp 44 opened the Xperformance generation in 2010, and in 2024 that range gave way to a new era with XRACING and the XR 41.

The X-Yachts Range

Every model X-Yachts publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. X5.6· this model56.6 ft
2. X4.9 MkII50.4 ft
3. Xc 4749.9 ft
4. XR 41 Race47.8 ft
5. XR 41 Sport47.8 ft
6. X4.6 MkII47.1 ft
7. X4.3 MkII43.4 ft
8. X4.039.7 ft

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