https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2022/03/surprising-arcona-50.html
Niels Jeppesen, one of the founders of X-yachts left the company, but X-Yachts that are designed now by an X-yacht design team, continue to be designed along the same lines used by Jeppesen and Pons, which created a distinctive image brand. Nothing wrong with that, it is their brand's image.
It is as if Porsche used a Ferrari designer and the new Porsche looked like the new Ferrari. I don't know about Arcona fans but I am quite sure Porsche fans would have hated it, and as far as I am concerned I think the same way. Instead of going along with the lines of the Arcona 435 ( the last Qviberg design), and slightly modernizing them, Jeppesen and Pons opted to continue the work they were doing for X-yachts here, and obviously, the new Arcona looks like an X-Yacht.
Above Arcona 40, below X4-9 (MKI). You can see the different transom designs. The one on the Arcona, without limiting heel is more progressive. The X4.9 one works like a chine, creating more RM at a given heel angle. |
Above Arcona 50, below, X4-9 (MKI) |
Arcona cannot get it wrong with this one while for X-Yacht it would be just one more yacht among the considerable number they build.
The bigger differences between the Arcona and the X4-9 regards the hull, with the Arcona 50 having the beam slightly more brought aft (being more similar to the X5-9), having two rudders instead of one, being a foot longer (HL 14.99 to 14.65m) and most of all, considerably more beamier (4.60 to 4.49m).
Above Arcona 50, below the X4-9 (MKI) |
If we want to look at really fast all-around performance cruisers or cruiser racers, the Mylius 50 has a 4.48m beam, the Swan 50 has a 4.20m and the Shogun 50 has 3.88m, being the only one that can be considered to have a narrow hull. A very beamy fast performance cruiser maximized for downwind sailing, like the Pogo 50, has a 5.15m beam.
Above, the two Arcona 50 layouts, below, the two X4-9 layouts. They are very similar. |
If on the Arcona that B/D will give good safety stability and AVS, on the X4-9 it will give much better values. In regards to sailing power (stiffness), the bigger Arcona 50 compensates for the much bigger X4-9 B/D with a bigger hull form stability and the performances should not be very different, except upwind with waves, where the X4-9 will have a better performance.
Above Arcona, below X4-9. Both garages have small height and that makes it not easy to store a dinghy inside, especially if you are raising it from the water |
They do not only look very similar, as they have very similar performances, with the X4-9 being just a bit better upwind (and probably in light wind) and the Arcona 50 sailing with a bit less heel and probably being just a bit faster beam reaching with medium-strong to strong winds and just a bit easier downwind with strong winds.
Both boats offer excellent space for whelming the boat, the cabin seats are about the same length, but the Arcona cockpit is much wider, allowing for a passage between the two tables, but keeping people apart. |
The beam is much more brought back on the Arcona, but it is not one of those transoms that limit heel at a relatively low angle, quite the contrary, it allows progressively high angles of heel, increasing RM and trying to limit the increase in drag. It is a design more centered on allowing a very good performance than on making it easier to sail the yacht, and I see it as a positive thing on a performance cruiser.
Arcona longitudinal galley is not as in the layouts. It is better. |
But the dinghy garage, when is not complemented with a decent storage space in the cockpit has its own problems because it is a wet storage space, and it is impossible to maintain it dry.
Above and below, Arcona 50 interior is nice, with lots of storage, even if a bit cold for my taste. |
Arcona, being much wider should have much more storage space than the X4-9, especially aft, but while the X4-9 has storage space under both cockpit seats (one of them for the liferaft), Arcona, besides the garage, has only a small cockpit central locker for the liferaft.
The absence of practical storage in the cockpit can make a big difference in regards to cruising, with Arcona lacking the space to store all that stuff that all that cruise know needs to be at hand. Not having an easy storage dry space, with easy access on the cockpit makes no sense because such space is needed for cruising, and even for sailing, to store equipment frequently used.
Above and below X4-9 interior. The Arcona 50 galley in the layout with the longitudinal galley is bigger than the one of the X4-9. On the layout with the L galley, the one from Arcona is slightly bigger due to the bigger beam. |
The interior layout is very similar but due to the bigger beam, the interior volume is bigger on the Arcona, with special relevance for the two aft cabins that are not only wider but higher because they include the space under the cockpit seats.
The X4-9 interior is less imposing, with a smaller height but also with lots of storage. I find it more cozy and with enough space: a boat-like interior versus a more house-like interior. |
The Arcona 50 costs standard at the shipyard, without VAT, 844240 €, and the X4-9 MKII costs 696000 euros, as announced by Yacht.de, even if the price seems too low, if compared to Arcona.
I bet some of you will be asking what would be the one I would prefer. I would have to say I don't know exactly, there are things I prefer on the X-yacht and others on the Arcona.
On the X-yacht, I like the smaller beam, the smaller freeboard, the bigger B/D, the cozier, and warmer interior, the cockpit storage space, and being built with epoxy resin.
Above, Arcona 50, below X4-9 |
I don´t like the aluminum rudder stocks on X-yacht, but being the designer the same, I don't know if the new Arcona has them (I hope not).
If those prices are right and correspond to boats equipped similarly, I like a lot more X-yacht price, even if I doubt both boats equipped the same way have a difference of price over 178 000 € (with VAT), but if so, I would clearly prefer the X-Yacht, but it is not up to me to decide, it is up to you.
Other performance cruisers around 50ft that may interest you:
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-ice-52-had-bad-luck-last-year-it.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2022/12/new-solaris-50-beautiful-but.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2020/12/italia-1498-fast-beautiful-and.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2020/03/shogun-50-and-shogun-426.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2021/07/mylius-50-carbon-rocket-cruiser-racer.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2019/02/grand-soleil-48-performance-and-race.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2019/10/swan-48-perfect-performance-cruiser.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2023/03/kraken-50-versus-pegasus-50-comparison.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2021/03/pegasus-50-perfect-long-range-voyage.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2018/10/oceantec-50-what-looker.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2018/12/another-dream-boat-fc3-53.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2016/11/fc3-53-dream-come-true.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2017/11/eleva-50-different-and-not-only-in-what.html
https://interestingsailboats.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-first-53-kind-of-disappointment.html
(His name is Jeppesen, Niels Jeppesen)
Nice reading and wishful thinking. Not boats suited for the average income. Who is buying boats like these? Can not be many sold over the years. It was long ago X-yachts built affordable smaller boats that one could buy. The economic theory of smaller boats in large numbers seems to be gone forever.
The new XC47 looks interesting, have you written about it?
Eight middle school students returned to Belle Isle this summer for another year of sailing lessons. But a few months ago, before they hit the water, those students learned a new lesson: how to build a boat.
The Detroit Community Sailing Center launched a pilot program this year that gave students an opportunity to learn how to build a sailboat. In May, they completed 80% of the boat's foundation . On Monday, after having a month off from the project, they put the finishing touches on the boat. On Tuesday afternoon, they attempted to sail it.
With their parents and instructors gathered on the dock to watch, the students pulled their sailboat into the water and took turns successfully sailing their boat.
" I'm proud of them," Harry Jones, president of the Detroit Sailing Community Center, said to one of the parents. "They built the boat."
Brothers Ari and Eli Boyce, 14 and 13, of Detroit, have sailed with the Detroit Community Sailing Center's Challenge the Wind youth program for three years and welcomed the opportunity to learn how to build a boat.
"The experience was really fun," Eli Boyce said. "It really got easier over time, like learning how to use the tools. And it really helped that it was a really hands-on experience, it wasn't really like they showed you it and they just did it."
Learning a new set of skills can come with challenges.
"The hardest part for me, I think, was when we were cutting and like trying to make the shapes of the boat, it's a lot of back and forth with saws and tools and stuff," Ari Boyce said. "And I think that's the hardest part for me, just like, trying to carve out and get the right shape of the boat and different pieces together and all that."
Eli said he struggled most with conversions.
"The hardest part for me was probably the measuring portion of it because, when we were building the boat, instead of using like normal inches, like feet and stuff, we had to use millimeters and it was a rough change for me," Eli Boyce said.
After learning about the pilot program from an email, Laura Thomas, 47 of Grosse Pointe, thought it would be a great project for her 13-year-old son Logan, who already had some experience in woodworking.
"He really enjoyed making something that was something you could actually use and take out on the water and everything. And that experience of creating something that you can go out and utilize was something he really enjoyed."
Jones said the boat building workshop could be the foundation for a year-round curriculum around sailing, so students aren't just involved in the summer.
"For the past couple of years, we've been looking to expand the educational component, STEM component of our program," Jones said. "And we tried some of the conventional things that other sailing organizations are doing. And it was fine, but it wasn't capturing us emotionally."
The boat building workshop, a partnership between the Detroit Community Sailing Center and the Detroit River Stories Lab out of the University of Michigan, is an attempt to try something more innovative and grow its STEM offerings.
Jones first joined the center in 2011, and has served as director of the program for 10 years. When he first arrived, he said that the program "had fallen in disrepair." People had left the organization and there were only two boats to teach sailing. Today, Detroit Community Sailing has drawn donations in dollars and in vessels. The nonprofit has 40 sailboats, and 100 youths and adults learned how to sail there last year.
The organization has operated out of the Belle Isle Boathouse since 2018. The building now faces an uncertain future , as the state considers demolishing the aging structure in need of renovations. Jones said that the Detroit Community Sailing Center "got some reassurance from the DNR (Department of Natural Resources) that we'll be able to continue to program there regardless of what happens," but understands that all could change, and are looking at other locations should they have to move.
"Hopefully, we won't have to," Jones said, "but we know the reality is that we better have an option if we want to keep the program alive."
In May, the students completed 80% of the boat's foundation as part of the first phase of the project. On Monday, they reunited to begin the second phase. They finalized the boat's design details and installed the last pieces of equipment. Jones said that this boat will be added to the organization's fleet and is looking forward to building more in the future.
The workshop has inspired Ari and Eli to learn more about boats and pursue STEM-based hobbies, and it has brought them closer to their uncle, who has his own motor boat.
"I think that being part of the program helped me understand our uncle's boat a little bit more and like, help talk to him about the boat, and what the boat's doing and what direction the wind is coming from and stuff like that," Eli Boyce said. "It's helped me bond with him, definitely."
Their mother, Kenya Lowe, said that she has seen her children's confidence grow since they first joined Detroit Community Sailing Center in 2021.
"Ari and Eli were very shy but the instructors in the program made them feel comfortable and safe," Lowe, 47, of Farmington Hills, said. "Everyone in the program made the learning experience fun and adventurous. So after that summer, Ari and Eli wanted to come back. And here we are, year (three)."
Looking back, Lowe said that program offered her children, "so much more" than she expected.
"It's absolutely worth it to put your child in this program. You will see so much growth and calmness," Lowe said. "It is such a beautiful feeling to sit outside Belle Isle and watch your child sail a boat on their own. It feels good to know they are confident in their ability to manage a boat."
Eric Guzmán covers youth sports culture at the Free Press as a corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project. Make a tax-deductible contribution to support this work at bit.ly/freepRFA .
Contact Eric Guzmán: [email protected]; 313-222-1850. Follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter: @EricGuzman90 .
Orust Quality Yachts AB, who own Najad AB, has acquired Arcona Yachts AB. The companies manufacture and sell sailing yachts in the premium segment and will continue to develop and sell yachts under separate brands. Najad produces yachts designed for blue water cruising, comfort and ease of use. Arcona produces yachts designed for racing and cruising.
The companies will coordinate management and administration to the Arcona Office in Stockholm. The companies will continue to design, produce and market their respective product portfolio as before. Torgny Jansson, who successfully have built up and managed Arcona, sell his company and will be heading the business development. Nicolas Broberg, with has a decade of experience as a leader in the marine industry, is stepping in as CEO for both Arcona and Najad AB.
”It feels very exciting to be part of this process; new models and a strengthened sales organization will drive the customer service and experience. I have during many years built the Arcona family and I will continue to safeguard the family and our strong brand.” Says Torgny Jansson.
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