{"id":30072,"date":"2018-02-28T21:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30072"},"modified":"2018-02-28T21:55:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:55:56","slug":"x-yachts-x4-from-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/02\/x-yachts-x4-from-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"X Yachts X4 from Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This thoroughly modern new design is a perfect dual-purpose boat for families who love to both race and cruise\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<\/em><em>Zuzana Prochazka<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00b7<\/em><em>\u00a0On January 8, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The term racer-cruiser has always given me pause primarily because it seems this moniker represents too many tradeoffs for a boat to do both well. The concept has been more of a marketing term than a reflection of reality, until now. Danish builder, X-Yachts, has squeezed a new design between their established Xp (performance) models and their Xc (cruising) line and to most impressive results. The new 41-foot X4 leverages the best of both worlds and is a kick in the pants to sail on a breezy day.<\/p>\n<p>I admit that our test on the blowy Chesapeake Bay on hull number four was off to an inauspicious start due to my own distraction. Looking up at the impressive 1,000+ square feet of sail area, I lost track of the shallows of the bay and we soon found ourselves grounded, stuck in the soft mud near a marker that should have been as clear as day. A bit of backing and twisting and we broke the suction off the encapsulated keel and with no harm done \u2013 except maybe to my ego \u2013 we were off once more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/boat-reviews\/x-yachts-x4-from-denmark\/\">Read the full review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thoroughly modern new design is a perfect dual-purpose boat for families who love to both race and cruise\u00a0 &nbsp; By\u00a0Zuzana Prochazka\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0On January 8, 2018 &nbsp; The term racer-cruiser has always given me pause primarily because it seems this moniker represents too many tradeoffs for a boat to do both well. The concept has been more of a marketing term than a reflection of reality, until now. Danish builder, X-Yachts, has squeezed a new design between their established Xp (performance) models and their Xc (cruising) line and to most impressive results. The new 41-foot X4 leverages the best of both worlds and is a kick in the pants to sail on a breezy day. I admit that our test on the blowy Chesapeake Bay on hull number four was off to an inauspicious start due to my own distraction. Looking up at the impressive 1,000+ square feet of sail area, I lost track of the shallows of the bay and we soon found ourselves grounded, stuck in the soft mud near a marker that should have been as clear as day. A bit of backing and twisting and we broke the suction off the encapsulated keel and with no harm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30073,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072\/revisions\/30073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}