Owned and operated with an open checkbook, Xaca is a must see on the Great Lakes.

If you are looking for a boat you can seriously race and also seriously cruise, you can’t do much better than this. The Xp 55 has both the modern go-fast features performance sailors insist upon, and the warm décor and creature comforts cruisers crave. Properly equipped, the boat can be cruised by a small family. Fully crewed, it will make a competitive sailor proud. 

Design & Construction

The hull structure is a mix of fiberglass and carbon fiber, with a Corecell foam core and set in vacuum-infused epoxy resin. The entire structure is post-cured in an oven to ensure the integrity of the resin matrix. The T-bulb keel, which is bolted on, is supported by a massive carbon-fiber structural grid inside the hull. The keel’s ballast bulb is lead; the fin is cast iron. A composite chainplate structure employing a carefully engineered mix of unidirectional and multiaxial fibers is also laminated into the hull. Forward there are two collision bulkheads segregating the chain and anchor lockers from each other and the interior accommodations.

On Deck

As with the rest of the boat, the Xp 55’s deck and cockpit layout carefully mixes performance features with cruising comfort. With respect to the latter, you’ll find attractive natural teak decking, a capacious dinghy garage and a handy fold-down transom, not to mention a very clever fold-away cockpit table that disappears into the cockpit sole when not needed. As to the former, you’ll find a battery of nicely oversized Harken Performa winches, full Harken hydraulics for controlling the vang and backstay tension, and a standard belowdeck Harken headsail furler forward. 

The wide cockpit has twin wheels turning a single deep, spade rudder. There are a variety of pedestal options, with our test boat boasting sexy black Carbonautica wheels with chartplotters and engine controls at both helm stations. The steering position is very comfortable, with flip-up foot chocks and a raised ledge behind the wheels that affords a clear line of sight over the cockpit dodger. Control lines from the mast are led aft and belowdeck to the helm stations, as is the double-ended German mainsheet, which sheets to a single fixed centerline block on the cockpit sole. On our test boat, much to my amazement, the boxes for storing the line tails were heated so as to keep them dry.

Overall the aesthetic of the deck is spare and clean, in the modern style. The cockpit dodger folds neatly and quickly into a recessed channel in the coachroof when you want to accentuate the look. All deck hatches are sleek and flush.

Accommodations

Down below you’ll find the Xp 55’s living space blends modern Danish style with a traditional layout. The U-shaped galley is to port, just forward of the companionway, with its twin sinks on centerline where they belong. Our test boat, which came with the standard layout, had oodles of galley counter space (the optional layout steals some of this for a third head) and a big top-loading fridge and freezer. Just opposite the galley, also near the companionway, is a full-size dedicated nav desk with plenty of room to lay out charts and install electronics. Forward of the galley and nav station is a conventional saloon with a dinette and table to port, and a straight settee to starboard.

The two aft staterooms, ranged either side of the companionway, are among the best I’ve seen on a monohull. You’ll be proud to store guests in them. There is fantastic vertical clearance over the twin or double berths, plenty of headroom, good ambient lighting, generous ventilation, and lots of storage space. In the standard layout there is a single head aft to starboard with a separate shower. In the optional layout another head, without a separate shower, is wedged in to port. Forward, the standard owner’s stateroom boasts an island double berth with an ensuite head and shower in the aft corner. The optional cabin layout has a Pullman double to port with the head forward.

The overall interior finish quality is superb, with a clean, elegant aesthetic. The standard joinery is executed in a Nordic oak. Bleached oak or a darker, more traditional teak is optional. The cabin sole can be finished in teak (with or without holly strips) or walnut.

EQUIPPED OPTIONS - 

SAILS:

Quantum MR7600 5 FULL, 2 Reef Mainsail

 (1) Overhead Leech Line

 (1) Insignia (2 color)

 (1) Draft Stripes - Second Color - Insignia

 (5) C-Tech NALR33.M12

 (5) Harken HC7324 - 26 mm switch battcar 12 mm stud

 (2) Harken HC7325 - 26 mm switch battcar reef

 (10) Harken HC7493 - 26 mm switch battcar intermediate

 (1) Harken HC9045 - 26 mm switch headboard car assembly

 (1) Harken 3876 headboard

Quantum MR7600 AP 106LP Furling 4V Batten Jib

 (1) Telltale window

 (1) UV cover weathermax 6.0oz - stocked colors

 (1) Draft stripes - second color - Insignia

 (1) Head sail full lenght bag grand prix

102230 - DP CZ Code Zero Asymmetrical

102231 - Karver KSF5 Top Down Furler

B&G ELECTRONICS:

2x H5000 displays

1x ZG 100 GPS antenna

1x H5000 Hydra main processor

1x speed transducer

1x wind 810mm vertical mast head unit

1x Go Free wifi1 wireless module integrated with B&G electronic system

3x 30/30 mast displays

2x 12" Zeus2 plotters

1x 9" Zeus2 plotter

1x Simrad RS90BB VHF AIS RX with handset, loudspeaker & VHF antenna

1x Simrad LS80 VHF loudspeaker (stbd cockpit coaming)

1x Radar 4G 18"

1x NAIS 400B AIS transceiver

1x Sonic Hub pack, server & dock station integrated with Zeus plotter (mounted at nav station)

1x Delta 200 S VHF/GSM antenna

1x H5000 Autopilot pack

DECK:

Electric Mainsail/Halyard 70.2STEPH winches (2)

Electric Genoa winches 80.2STEPH (2)

Teak coach roof

Teak sidedeck

XL size pedestals

Cockpit cushions

Add cockpit foot chocks

Cockpit table

Cockpit lights (4)

SAIL HANDLING:

Sailhandling pack 2 - 

  Performance asymmetric spinnaker package with 2 spectra sheets incl Wicard pad eyes, 2 sheet blocks, 2 foot blocks, 2 cleats for "parking" of sheet, 2 wichard sheet shackles. Outboard Genoa sheeting Wichard foldable pad eyes mounted (2). Second spinnaker halyard with mast base block and clutch. Tack line led back to cockpit.

Sailhandling pack 4 - 

 Spinnaker barber haul system: 2 Barberhaul sheet blocks, 2 tweaker blocks, 2 pad eyes, 2 diverter blocks, 2 cleats, 2 x 6mm spectra tweaker ropes and stainless steel champfer rails.

SPRAYHOOD:

Sprayhood in dark grey

Cockpit cushions in dark grey

LIFE LINES & ANCHOR EQUIPMENT:

Carbon bowsprit

Stanchions with gates

MAST AND RIGGING:

Park avenue carbon fiber boom

Inner forestay

Lazy jacks

Nav50 vang, backstay (2), outhaul

Combi deck/steam light

Three color top lights

RUNNING RIGGING:

Halyard track on mast

Hydraulic Jib halyard tensioner connected to navtyec pump in cockpit

KEEL:

Deep draft 10' 6" (3.2m)

INTERIOR:

Owners version A1

Standard galley (large) B1

Sea berths PS aft cabins

Sea berths SB aft cabins

Center armrest starboard sofa

Pipe frames with netting for storage in sail cabin

Nightlight saloon (4)

CUSHIONS:

Spring mattress in owners cabin

Spring mattress in aft cabin

Fabric main leather/alcantara

Saloon and seats: Leather 55002 dark red

Cabins: Nantes grey white

GALLEY:

Stove - Force 10 3 burner + oven

Frigonautic FR80RC fridge

Cool/freeze box Magnum

Gas system US w/ gas switch

Gas detector alarm

PLUMBING:

Owners A1 electric toilet upgraded to electrical tecma elegance toilet including bidet function

Electric toilet SB aft

Eberspacher heater

Hydro D10

East start for Eberspacher heater

Back up foot pump for freshwater galley

Sea water rinse deck

Hot water tank 110v

Aircon aft 10k 110v

Aircon owners 7K 110v

Aircon saloon 16k 110v

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS:

Shore power 110v USA

Combi USA 24/3000-70A

Sockets 12v inside (4)

Sockets 110v (3)

Service battery, extra

ENGINE:

Yanmar 110 (305hrs)

GENERATOR & BOW THRUSTER:

Fisher Panda generator 15k (47hrs)

Retractable Bowthruser

ENTERTAINMENT:

Bose cockpit speakers

DECK & LOCKERS:

Inside surfaces of cockpit lockers, smoothed

Includes cockpit table latch and life raft latch

INTERIOR:

Furniture/bulkheads code for veneer: EBZ 2R 529/00/Y17 Light Oak

Walnut floorboards

Saloon chairs instead of center pouff

Saloon table foldable to coffee table & telescoping function

Nespresso

No glass splash in galley, instead of stainless brushed steel hand rails

Brushed fittings like grabrails and push buttons and galley water tap

Single sink in galley, brushed

Black Corian top in galley

MAST & RIGGING

Switch track system 26mm X-55

Foldable mast step (each)

Mastbracket for 3 Mast display 30/30 H5000

Mast display 30/30 H5000 (3)

BTM III battery monitor

Fusion radio

Electrical throttle control on both pedestals

Second bowthruster control at pedestal 

OPTIONAL FEATURES:

Full hull wrap

Mast covered in 3M carbon look film