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X-Day for sale: a proven GP42 ready to win again

Writer: Racing Yachts
Racing Yachts
Sep 24
2 min read

Grand prix race boats that can still win at the top level don't come up for sale often. X-Day (GER 8419), a Farr GP42 2.60, is one of them. She's lying in Kiel, Germany, with EU VAT paid, and the asking price is €250,000.


Her race record

X-Day is still winning races. In just the last three seasons she has:

  • won the 2024 Malta Coastal Race outright

  • finished 8th overall in the 2025 Rolex Fastnet Race, in one of offshore racing's deepest fleets

  • won the 2023 ORC Corinthian European Championship

Those results cover short inshore courses, a coastal race and a 600-mile offshore classic. The GP42 platform is fast in all of them. She comes with a 2026 ORC certificate and an endorsed IRC certificate, so she's ready to race next season.



Built to go fast

Farr Yacht Design drew the GP42 2.60 in 2007, and X-Day was launched in 2008. Her hull and deck are pre-preg carbon over a foam core, so she's light and stiff. She has a fixed bowsprit and a square-top main. The rig is a high-modulus carbon mast and boom from Southern Spars, with twin spreaders. A composite headstay went in in 2017 and a Gorilla Foil in 2024.

Under the water she has a hollow steel keel fin, fitted in 2016, and a carbon rudder and tiller. She also has water ballast of 430 litres per side, which gives her extra righting moment offshore without adding permanent weight.


Refitted and upgraded

X-Day has been kept up to date, not just maintained:

  • Electrical: a full rewire by Voltsport in 2017, plus a lithium battery upgrade with Bluetooth monitoring

  • Electronics: a B&G H5000 processor, two GFD displays, four Garmin GNX 120 mast displays, a Vesper Cortex AIS/VHF and a Thrane LT-500 compass

  • Connectivity: a Pepwave router and a fixed mini PC for navigation and routing

  • Deck: Harken 65.3 primaries, a 50.3 pit winch and five 50.2s, all driven from a Harken MX pedestal on carbon drive shafts. Spinlock clutches, and Karver KF1/KF5 and KZ furlers



Plenty of sails

The sail wardrobe is large. It includes a North Carbon inventory, new Quantum sails from 2025 and a 2024 North A6 asymmetric. There are several mainsails, headsails, staysails and downwind sails, with measurements and dates listed, so a new owner can race her hard from day one.


Ready for offshore racing

X-Day carries a full Category 2 safety kit. That includes a 10-person liferaft, 12 lifejackets with GPS trackers, and ground tackle. Down below there are eight berths (six full-size and two small), enough for a full offshore crew. A Volvo Penta D1-30 engine and six bilge pumps cover the practical side.



Why X-Day makes sense

X-Day gives you grand prix build quality, current certificates and recent race wins, without the cost and wait of a new build. Whether you're planning a Fastnet campaign, the Mediterranean offshore circuit or ORC championships, she's already done it and won.

Price: €250,000, EU VAT paidLocation: Kiel, Germany

To arrange a viewing or get the full specification, contact office@31northgroup.com or call +44 (0) 7470 686717

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