X-Yachts was founded in 1979 by by three passionate Danish sailors who had a simple aim : to design high quality racing yachts and performance cruisers.

During the 1980’s, X-Yachts designed and built winning IOR yachts for World Class Racing. Throughout the 1990’s, X-Yachts Range of Performance Cruisers was established.

The X-412 was the first model in the new line, and still is one of the best model of the range.

With the launch of the X-43 and X-46 in 2003, a new generation of performance cruisers was born.

Three new models followed in 2004; the X-40, X-37 and X-50. The new X-35 One Design followed the traditions of the X-79 and X-99, as popular large fleet one-design racers and, in 2007, two hundred X-35s were racing around the world as an ISAF recognized class.