Xcellent
A super sail in an endlessly fascinating and tricky dayboat...
The chances are, if you a reading this outside of the UK, that you have never heard of the XOD class, Alfred Westmacott’s fiendishly tweaky wooden yacht that has ‘classic’ written all over it. In the past I’ve had a lot of fun ribbing the class about ‘tacking angles akin to super-tankers,’ or ‘log racing’ or the fact that they are somewhat …