Wow! As an engineer, I am geeking out on this video! ISO 9001 - all in-house manufacturing - high staff retention - even 3D printing of components - equals highest quality! Great to see how everyone speaks with pride about their quality and differentiation. Great job and great team! Must be comforting to see a build first hand before heading off across the Atlantic. Good to hear that all paperwork is approved. Fair winds!
I was very impressed and yes it did give me confidence to step on a brand new boat and sail it across the ocean. ISO 9001 is hard to get and keep. So that says a lot.
Absolutely incredible build. My fourth time watching. I WANT ONE! Thank you Tomas and crew, you build an amazing vessel. Thanks Craig for a further peek into this remarkable sailboat. I know what I’ll do with my lottery winnings. Cheers from the West Coast of Canada.
Thank Doug. We really need to make it out to the West Coast at some point. Been all over the USA but for some reason never the Canadian West Coast. It is very far from Ottawa. Cheers back to you.
WOW, just WOW. That is one impressive company from one end to the other! Pride exudes from every step in the process and the final product shows. You can tell every employee is proud of what they do. Such a rare thing these days. I can easily see why you are so impressed! Great video, those guys deserve every bit of recognition they receive.
Currently in negotiations for a 37' monohull, but in 20 years, something from these guys would be my dream retirement boat. Great tour, loved listening to the insights of such experienced builders.
Thanks Gothic. 20 years!?! You’ve got time to save at least. I retire and am ready to buy in 4. How to I get that much together that soon? Now I’m sad 😔
I’m seriously stating to think a semi custom boat like this, Maverick, Seawind or Balance is a better long term value. As an engineer I love how XQuisite makes everything accessible. I saw the Wynn’s having to recaulk their saloon windows, and acrylic crazes over time, can’t avoid it. I really want glass which rules out most production boats. This and the Maverick vlog gives me a lot to think about. They need to build an X4.5
Very nice of them to take the time to give you such a in-depth interview and tour, especially considering your not a writer for some big sailing or boat magazine.
Yes. I think they like that I’m not a sailing magazine. Those reviews are always puff pieces to try and get the builder to buy advertising. If we don’t like a boat we say it. So people value an honest opinion.
@@Bowmans-Woods ua-cam.com/video/zawB8HQlxME/v-deo.html&ab_channel=GonewiththeWynns Hi, so would the catamaran world be willing to assist the Winn's? please contact them if you can. Thanks in Advance.
I really like these interviews. It really attaches you to the boat from production to live-aboard ownership. Endearing. I’m an X5 fan already, but just seeing how and why it was built was really enlightening. Much love shipmate.
Okay, after seeing this video I also would sail the world on a X5! I spent 35 years in commercial aviation where quality is a must, and after getting my degree in Marine Maintenance Technology it is a MUST to have a quality built boat if you want to be able to sleep on a long passage!! Safe trip, have fun, catch lots of fish!! And don't lose the drone in the water!!!
Great testimony of high professional craftman ship and design. It shows Xquisite team place love and pride in their work. You went to the heart of it with this video. Thank you.
What an exceptional manufacturing and design team, every single person is an expert in their field and create a wonderful piece of moving art. An amazing team, standing applause!
Ha ha. Sorry. If it makes her feel Any better. I’m not happy either. Now I really want a boat that I clearly can’t afford. I’m seeing heartbreak in our future. Hard to look at a used production cat and get excited after this.
That was all very interesting. I especially liked the laminated glass over the acrylic with the UV protection. Doing everything in house has it's advantages plus cost wise you eliminate the middle man. That group of guys seem more than sincere in making a quality product.
I agree. It really felt like they put a lot of attention on quality. I hear getting certified as an ISO 9001 builder is very hard. So, I was very impressed.
@@Bowmans-Woods ISO 9001 is a way of documenting all your processes and ensuring you follow your process. It doesn't create high quality as that is a function of the design. If followed then it helps to ensure consistent quality at whatever level the design puts it. The annual audit is to ensure you are following the processes you documented.
Good one! I am amazed by all the thought they put into everything. From the built in rain catcher on and on. Apart from it being a heavy boat, it's wonderful! Thanks.
It seems like quality is job #1 with this builder and I am not sure you can say that for any of the mass production boats and I am sure most of the mass production boats are just as heavy (or more). I think their market is for "quality luxury cruising" and are not going after the performance customer as much. They say there are 3 things in a Cat. Comfort, Performance and Price, and you can have 2 of the 3. ha ha.
Thank you for posting this video. It’s a wonderfully in depth look at an emerging company that is producing fantastic sailing vessels. Have a great journey.
Thanks Mike. I totally agree. Definitely an up and comer. Tamas tells me all the time they really started getting noticed and receiving lots more buyers after my Annapolis tour videos. This Factory tour should get them even more interest. I’m glad to help shine the light on a quality builder.
Tamas seems like such a great, stand-up guy. As I near retirement, my goal is to figure out how to purchase an X5, possibly the non-sail version, and live in the Florida Keys and cruise the Caribbean. What a vessel! I am in love with this boat.
Fantastic Tour and it's great to see the passion everyone has to build beautiful quality boats, Hat off to Tamas for seeing his vision through having started the simPRO Group 18 years ago, now an International software business I know what a labour of love that can be. When I retire in the next couple of years and buy one of these boats I will talk to Tamas about taking his great systems from paper to digital :-)
Tamas is a brilliant salesman for this boat. Your walk around video and Tamas's demo has made me want to buy one. Congratulations to the designer and production crews on what looks like a fantastic liveaboard cat.
Thanks Mark. I am glad to help viewers in the market for a future Cat, be aware of this outstanding builder. They were relatively new and unknown when I did my first walk-through video 3 years ago. A lot of people have told Tamas that they only got interested and eventually bought an Xquisite after watching my channel. So that gives me some satisfaction that I got people into a great boat that they may not have known about. May they have many decades of sailing enjoyment.
Thanks David. I agree. It was very impressive to me to see all the quality checks throughout the entire building process. Just need to have a rich relative bequeath me some money so I can get on the build list for a future boat. Dreams can happen? 🙄
Having an ISO9001 audited system in place gives peace of mind to potential buyers and current owners. It means the boats are built to a high standard. Becoming a ISO rated company is not an easy thing to do as every aspect of the build from design through to manufacturing has to be documented with best practice techniques adhered too. Good on Xquisite for achieving this it looks like a very professional operation.
Yes. I was exceedingly impressed with that, especially when I learned how hard it is and how they need to get audited yearly to keep that status. I believe you are getting a lot of quality and good "bang for the buck" with this builder.
Great video again.. I really do enjoy seeing all the details together with the top quality. Never seen this from any other builder.. Wonder why.. To the guys working there.. Big up.. Keep doing the great quality work 👍
It was great to see where they built the boat and the obvious focus on quality. It would make me really confident in the boat I would be getting in an Xquisite. Now if only I could afford it. ha ha
I was just thinking, first real Quality Control and Planning I have seen until now in a boat building. Great stuff guy, see the pride of your artisans at work in detail for the finishing was most important. Keep up the good work, live long and Prosper. 👍👀👀👀👍✌
I just spent a little over an hour with Tamar at the 2020 Miami Boat Show. He gave me a very thorough tour of this boat. The level on attention to detail, in terms of design, craftsmanship, and overall build quality far exceeded my comprehension of where I thought modern cats are today. I looked at a lot of multihulls here at the boat show and the Xquisite was by far the best one.
That was a great factory tour! I like their keeping workers year around, building boats, even if they don't have it sold yet. I like that they don't use brokers, like Tesla doesn't use dealers to sell their cars, and roll the savings back into the boat. Maybe you can do a video interview sometimes with the designer and he can talk more about the upgrades, and improvements he's made to the design since the original boat that Tamas bought and had to finish himself and ended up leading him to start the company? I'm a nerd about design and construction techniques. I must get it from my dad who was in quality control at Ford in Detroit and he'd come up with design improvements or faster/better ways to build something. He ended up at Ford Aerospace in California.
I hear now (because of me? LOL) they have a huge backlog in orders so Im sure they are not building any boats that aren't already purchased. I think there is now a 2 yr waiting list?
Fantastic video showing WHY these boats are worth what they charge (and probably more!) All in-house workmanship. Accessibility to all the components. It seems every detail is thought out. I love their business model: Keep the guys working even without sales; make improvements as they are discovered; make those improvements backwards compatible for earlier boats in the line; quality over all else; no outside sales team; after sales service; the list goes on. Impressive. Or should I say "Xquisite"?!
Also I think tamas is hilarious, his personality comes across great in all your episodes and you can totally tell he’s a man full of brains and knowledge 👍🏽
Craig, Another well done insightful video. For anyone seriously considering a purchase of a boat of this cost, this is wonderful information. I was introduced to the X5 primarily thanks to your previous videos, and have had preliminary purchase discussions with Tamas. I hope he recognizes how beneficial your videos are. I look forward to seeing your videos from your upcoming trip.
Nice work Craig! Really looking forward to this series. I am hoping to get a test sail in Miami on another X5 (with Tamas) at the end of June. I cannot wait to see how my impressions jibe with yours. One day I hope to get to the factory too. Great point about the electrical work. Pretty sure that was one of the key factors for Nigel Calder and the Sail Magazine folks to give the X5 boat of the year honors in 2017. I have been under the hood of every catamaran in the 44-57' range coming to Annapolis over the past 5 years, and I have only seen a couple of boats approaching the build quality of the X5. I hope you received the message I sent through your app a few weeks ago that included a big list of questions for your sail. Have a great ride!
Dear Doug. Thank you for the words of encouragement. It is pretty intensive to keep up a build quality with a boat as complex as the Xquisite X5. Clinton Johns ( Owner Phoenix Marine). I agree Craig did a great job and also looking forward to their journey
Absolutely brilliant. Cant help but think that if they could implement carbon fibre into their build to reduce weight, hence, improve performance. Really nice.
Nice to see a company full of proud workers taking pride in their craft and team lead by passionate experts wishing to build the best sailing cat currently on the market. I’m like many others no doubt wishing my pockets were a little less full of lint and more of the jingling stuff so I too could sail outta there. Better go get a lotto ticket! Great video.
Thanks Coffee. Yes. Wishing I had much "Deeper" pockets myself. Its like getting to drive a Bently but then realizing you can only afford a Honda Accord. ha ha.
That’s great Tori. Love a woman who knows what she wants. I doubt you’ll have much trouble convincing your hubby. It’s a nice boat and the quality workmanship is clearly a priority.
At this stage I am only dreaming of eventually chartering a catamaran in the caribbean, but I still window shop on youtube (what the heck it's free!). After watching the factory tour I went back and watched the walk thru at 2017 boat show. If I understand correctly, the X5 comes with a lot of equipment standard, and has a very high quality, high end interior finish (I'm the wife so that is what I look at lol), so at $1.3M for a 50' catamaran, it seems like a value purchase to those in that market.
Thanks for watching both and commenting. Although not cheap for the average Joe and Jane, like me and my wife, but if you can afford it you are getting good value for money. IMO.
It would be interesting to compare, apples to apples so to speak, between the Xquisite X5 and it's counterparts by other manufacturers with the same features and equipment. I'm sure you couldn't get a 100% match but you could get in the ballpark. I don't think there's quite as big of a gap between boat prices, taken as a whole, as some might think. There's after the sale differences between boats too.
Amazing quality evident in every aspect of that boat. The employees also seem very motivated and dedicated to turning out a good product. Do you know what the hull material is? Solid glass or cored?
It impressed me a lot on the quality build side. I liked it in Annapolis but you never see what is under the hood until you go and see how they build it. If I could afford it I'd signing up for one in the future production.
OCEANBLUE If you’re going to bother replying to refute his statement, at least provide your evidence or alternative. If you don’t feel this is the best, then what do you consider to be the best and why?
After watching a few videos regarding a French built boat I have come back to this video to see if there was any vision of bulkheads and how they are constructed . None the wiser .
Hey there Craig! I dig the shades! Are they Serengeti? -- This is a great video. They really do show how their lowered costs by doing everything in-house has been reinvested in higher quality workmanship and components. I worked for a ISO 9000/9001 certified company before and know how much goes into getting and maintaining it. Your tour of the facility inspired me to go back and re-watch your tour of the boat at the boat show...checking the finished product again after having seen how the sausage is made. I noticed how they match the veneer wood grain from panel to panel, across door-to-wall joints/spaces, and drawers to cabinet frames. The stitching around the gill windows, etc. etc. Oh, and the wiring and layout of the engine room! Oh...and nice tourist shots of South Africa too. ;-P (Did you bring your Toonies? Did you trade for Krugerrand?) Looking forward to all the stories and videos when you're 10-8 in a few weeks!
Thanks David. I was impressed as hell at the factory tour. As for the glasses..... I actually broke both pairs I brought to Cape Town so ended up just buying a cheap pair in the local mall. I have given up buying good pairs.
I was impressed. You get a lot of bang for the buck. Even if the bucks are a bit more than we can afford. But to those that can, I believe this is a top choice for the Cruising Liveaboard couple of family.
Wow 🤩 so much pride and quality. If I was in the market I definitely would consider this company it has the same mind set of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. I hope they became public trade one day. Now they just need to blow people out and make a fully electric sail ⚡️ boat just to show who is the boss. 👍
I agree and am in the same boat as you. Pardon the pun. Need to find a way to come up with a chunk more but it would be an aspirational purchase to shoot for. :-)
Great video... is Tamas ever going to consider raising the arch from the cockpit to the decks? I banged my head on it twice. The rest of the boat is rock solid and his after market support really is just unbelievably fantastic...
My girlfriend is from Ottawa but really grew up in Regina. We hope to do Ottawa next year and soon do the thousand islands or is it lakes? I didn’t know they existed until you mentioned it with your Beneteau
I am already in Walvis Bay Namibia as I write this. The deck slap was almost non existent. When we were broadside there is some slap against the leeward hull but that is to be expected on any cat but when going down wind in 30+ knots in big waves it was very quiet.
Wow Awesome tour, impressive, cant wait to see how the trip goes, great project. Question, what marine standards are the yachts built too, I see ISO9000, but are there others?
ISO 26262 is the safety standard for cars as far as torque security. With the increasing amount of current and voltage capacity in a non metal boat sitting in conductive seawater, I would want to see the electrical isolation standard. Any modern hybrid vehicle has safeties built in when isolation between the 300V 400A electrical grid and the cockpit breaks down.
Very nice but all of the custom parts will be VERY expensive when they break. I would like if they used more generic parts for common parts that fail in time due to wear. But love the boat...I guess if you can afford a 1.3 million boat, a $100 custom washer will be no problem.
I am quite sure if anything breaks you would just call Xquisite and they would send you a new "custom" part at a reasonable price. They seem to have a goal to keep their after sales service top notch to that the boats don't depreciate like many other boats do.
Great job Craig, thanks for an amazing tour of a beautiful cat. Love the window designs. I wonder if they would put electric motors for the propellers. Have good and safe trip and looking forward to you next video. Thanks and best from HKG
Thanks Laurent. I did ask Tamas about an electric option. He said they dont have the power to push at a decent speed for a lengthy period of time that a boat would need to cross oceans. So it sounded like they were not interested at this time in doing an all electric model.
Thinking I may go the custom route.... as none have anything that suits my needs. Somewhere between a Lagoon and a Privilege... With full NMEA2K control with digital switching. A full beam owner's suite forward, without the fly bridge... That's for charter tourists. The Lagoon 46 was SO close
It will be very expensive to have a boat built to your exact specifications. If you can afford that, go for it. Then invite me to come sailing and I will film it for you. :-)
@@Bowmans-Woods that's too bad, i hope they reconsider that decision at some point. The maintenance and docking cost are the main issue for us, we want to stay under 46' to keep that as low as possible as we will be retired like you guys and on a budget.
Wow! As an engineer, I am geeking out on this video! ISO 9001 - all in-house manufacturing - high staff retention - even 3D printing of components - equals highest quality! Great to see how everyone speaks with pride about their quality and differentiation. Great job and great team! Must be comforting to see a build first hand before heading off across the Atlantic. Good to hear that all paperwork is approved. Fair winds!
I was very impressed and yes it did give me confidence to step on a brand new boat and sail it across the ocean. ISO 9001 is hard to get and keep. So that says a lot.
Iso 9001 is just a number
Absolutely incredible build. My fourth time watching. I WANT ONE! Thank you Tomas and crew, you build an amazing vessel. Thanks Craig for a further peek into this remarkable sailboat. I know what I’ll do with my lottery winnings. Cheers from the West Coast of Canada.
Thank Doug. We really need to make it out to the West Coast at some point. Been all over the USA but for some reason never the Canadian West Coast. It is very far from Ottawa. Cheers back to you.
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WOW, just WOW. That is one impressive company from one end to the other! Pride exudes from every step in the process and the final product shows. You can tell every employee is proud of what they do. Such a rare thing these days. I can easily see why you are so impressed! Great video, those guys deserve every bit of recognition they receive.
Thanks Austin. I agree.
Currently in negotiations for a 37' monohull, but in 20 years, something from these guys would be my dream retirement boat. Great tour, loved listening to the insights of such experienced builders.
Thanks Gothic. 20 years!?! You’ve got time to save at least. I retire and am ready to buy in 4. How to I get that much together that soon? Now I’m sad 😔
I’m seriously stating to think a semi custom boat like this, Maverick, Seawind or Balance is a better long term value. As an engineer I love how XQuisite makes everything accessible. I saw the Wynn’s having to recaulk their saloon windows, and acrylic crazes over time, can’t avoid it. I really want glass which rules out most production boats. This and the Maverick vlog gives me a lot to think about. They need to build an X4.5
Very nice of them to take the time to give you such a in-depth interview and tour, especially considering your not a writer for some big sailing or boat magazine.
Yes. I think they like that I’m not a sailing magazine. Those reviews are always puff pieces to try and get the builder to buy advertising. If we don’t like a boat we say it. So people value an honest opinion.
@@Bowmans-Woods It's why you have the viewers you have.
@@Bowmans-Woods ua-cam.com/video/zawB8HQlxME/v-deo.html&ab_channel=GonewiththeWynns Hi, so would the catamaran world be willing to assist the Winn's? please contact them if you can. Thanks in Advance.
I really like these interviews. It really attaches you to the boat from production to live-aboard ownership. Endearing. I’m an X5 fan already, but just seeing how and why it was built was really enlightening. Much love shipmate.
Thanks Jose. Always nice to hear people get value from the videos.
Okay, after seeing this video I also would sail the world on a X5! I spent 35 years in commercial aviation where quality is a must, and after getting my degree in Marine Maintenance Technology it is a MUST to have a quality built boat if you want to be able to sleep on a long passage!! Safe trip, have fun, catch lots of fish!! And don't lose the drone in the water!!!
Thanks Raylin. I hope we catch lots of fish and have fair winds and following seas. 😀
Great testimony of high professional craftman ship and design. It shows Xquisite team place love and pride in their work. You went to the heart of it with this video. Thank you.
You are very welcome Giovanni. I agree with what you said.
WOW, truly outstanding, I'm impressed.
👍😁
What an exceptional manufacturing and design team, every single person is an expert in their field and create a wonderful piece of moving art. An amazing team, standing applause!
It was impressive to me as well.
Absolute perfection, very impressed with this build. Now im sold. X5 is the boat for me. Thank you for such a great review
Wow that was a great tour and insight of how these incredible cats are made. I found it very fascinating... Also, my wife is not happy with you now :)
Ha ha. Sorry. If it makes her feel
Any better. I’m not happy either. Now I really want a boat that I clearly can’t afford. I’m seeing heartbreak in our future. Hard to look at a used production cat and get excited after this.
This is absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much for posting this fascinating factory tour with a top class team!
Glad you liked it.
That was all very interesting. I especially liked the laminated glass over the acrylic with the UV protection. Doing everything in house has it's advantages plus cost wise you eliminate the middle man. That group of guys seem more than sincere in making a quality product.
I agree. It really felt like they put a lot of attention on quality. I hear getting certified as an ISO 9001 builder is very hard. So, I was very impressed.
@@Bowmans-Woods ISO 9001 is a way of documenting all your processes and ensuring you follow your process. It doesn't create high quality as that is a function of the design. If followed then it helps to ensure consistent quality at whatever level the design puts it. The annual audit is to ensure you are following the processes you documented.
Good one! I am amazed by all the thought they put into everything. From the built in rain catcher on and on. Apart from it being a heavy boat, it's wonderful! Thanks.
It seems like quality is job #1 with this builder and I am not sure you can say that for any of the mass production boats and I am sure most of the mass production boats are just as heavy (or more). I think their market is for "quality luxury cruising" and are not going after the performance customer as much. They say there are 3 things in a Cat. Comfort, Performance and Price, and you can have 2 of the 3. ha ha.
Glad I came across your amazing interview with Tomas when you joined him under sail and then I find this!
Cheers.
Incredible quality!!! All at home made, amazing! Great team work! Thanks a lot for this tour!!!
Thank you for posting this video.
It’s a wonderfully in depth look at an emerging company that is producing fantastic sailing vessels.
Have a great journey.
Thanks Mike. I totally agree. Definitely an up and comer. Tamas tells me all the time they really started getting noticed and receiving lots more buyers after my Annapolis tour videos. This Factory tour should get them even more interest. I’m glad to help shine the light on a quality builder.
Great beginning to a video series I’ve been looking forward to. Best of luck in the crossing - fair skies and seas all the way. Great job!
Thanks Don.
Wow! Awesome video.
Thanks!
Tamas seems like such a great, stand-up guy. As I near retirement, my goal is to figure out how to purchase an X5, possibly the non-sail version, and live in the Florida Keys and cruise the Caribbean. What a vessel! I am in love with this boat.
It is very solid. Good choice if you can afford it.
This boat is beautiful and is everything I want in a blue water cat!!! I want this to be my first and only boat!
Fantastic Tour and it's great to see the passion everyone has to build beautiful quality boats, Hat off to Tamas for seeing his vision through having started the simPRO Group 18 years ago, now an International software business I know what a labour of love that can be. When I retire in the next couple of years and buy one of these boats I will talk to Tamas about taking his great systems from paper to digital :-)
Thanks Andaril
Very Good explaniert and a Good staff of workers
Agree.
Tamas is a brilliant salesman for this boat. Your walk around video and Tamas's demo has made me want to buy one. Congratulations to the designer and production crews on what looks like a fantastic liveaboard cat.
Thanks Mark. I am glad to help viewers in the market for a future Cat, be aware of this outstanding builder. They were relatively new and unknown when I did my first walk-through video 3 years ago. A lot of people have told Tamas that they only got interested and eventually bought an Xquisite after watching my channel. So that gives me some satisfaction that I got people into a great boat that they may not have known about. May they have many decades of sailing enjoyment.
Awesome tour! Thanks! Love to see craftsmen that care about their work!
Thanks David. I agree. It was very impressive to me to see all the quality checks throughout the entire building process. Just need to have a rich relative bequeath me some money so I can get on the build list for a future boat. Dreams can happen? 🙄
Loved this video, it just proves to me why I like this catamaran so much. I think you could do a video twice as long and still find it interesting.
Thanks Glen
Awesome tour!
Thanks Sea Travel.
Having an ISO9001 audited system in place gives peace of mind to potential buyers and current owners. It means the boats are built to a high standard. Becoming a ISO rated company is not an easy thing to do as every aspect of the build from design through to manufacturing has to be documented with best practice techniques adhered too. Good on Xquisite for achieving this it looks like a very professional operation.
Yes. I was exceedingly impressed with that, especially when I learned how hard it is and how they need to get audited yearly to keep that status. I believe you are getting a lot of quality and good "bang for the buck" with this builder.
ISO 9001 means nothing
ISO9001 doesn’t automatically translate into better quality product. It just means the product manufacturing processes are controlled and audited.
Very impressive! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Bill.
Great video again.. I really do enjoy seeing all the details together with the top quality. Never seen this from any other builder.. Wonder why.. To the guys working there.. Big up.. Keep doing the great quality work 👍
It was great to see where they built the boat and the obvious focus on quality. It would make me really confident in the boat I would be getting in an Xquisite. Now if only I could afford it. ha ha
Cross the equator for the second time, you crossed it on the way there. Nice vid thanks.
I love their attention to detail. These are master craftspeople. Thanks for the video. Fascinating.
Thanks Tom.
I was just thinking, first real Quality Control and Planning I have seen until now in a boat building. Great stuff guy, see the pride of your artisans at work in detail for the finishing was most important. Keep up the good work, live long and Prosper. 👍👀👀👀👍✌
It was very impressive.
I just spent a little over an hour with Tamar at the 2020 Miami Boat Show. He gave me a very thorough tour of this boat. The level on attention to detail, in terms of design, craftsmanship, and overall build quality far exceeded my comprehension of where I thought modern cats are today. I looked at a lot of multihulls here at the boat show and the Xquisite was by far the best one.
Glad you got to meet Tamas. He is a great guy. There is a good team at Phoenix and Xquisite. Quality is important to them.
That was a great factory tour! I like their keeping workers year around, building boats, even if they don't have it sold yet. I like that they don't use brokers, like Tesla doesn't use dealers to sell their cars, and roll the savings back into the boat. Maybe you can do a video interview sometimes with the designer and he can talk more about the upgrades, and improvements he's made to the design since the original boat that Tamas bought and had to finish himself and ended up leading him to start the company?
I'm a nerd about design and construction techniques. I must get it from my dad who was in quality control at Ford in Detroit and he'd come up with design improvements or faster/better ways to build something. He ended up at Ford Aerospace in California.
I hear now (because of me? LOL) they have a huge backlog in orders so Im sure they are not building any boats that aren't already purchased. I think there is now a 2 yr waiting list?
wow! super talented people. Amazing.
Fantastic video showing WHY these boats are worth what they charge (and probably more!) All in-house workmanship. Accessibility to all the components. It seems every detail is thought out. I love their business model: Keep the guys working even without sales; make improvements as they are discovered; make those improvements backwards compatible for earlier boats in the line; quality over all else; no outside sales team; after sales service; the list goes on.
Impressive. Or should I say "Xquisite"?!
I agree completely Marcel.
Well I thought I was already impressed enough by the x5 but wow now the impressiveness has gone to another level after watching this one 😎💪🏽
Also I think tamas is hilarious, his personality comes across great in all your episodes and you can totally tell he’s a man full of brains and knowledge 👍🏽
Yes. The factory tour was impressive, to say the least. And, yes, Tamas is a great guy.
This presentation was excellent, the walk around gave us viewers an insight to a fantastic boat, you should all be very proud. john . Wirral UK.
Thanks John. I found it very informative myself.
I really like Xquisite, I did a test at sea with the hull number 1 in the Mediterranean. Very good boat.
Great. About to really test it to the max. 😁
Craig,
Another well done insightful video. For anyone seriously considering a purchase of a boat of this cost, this is wonderful information. I was introduced to the X5 primarily thanks to your previous videos, and have had preliminary purchase discussions with Tamas. I hope he recognizes how beneficial your videos are. I look forward to seeing your videos from your upcoming trip.
Thanks Matthew. Well you make sure you tell Tamas how valuable my videos are. 👍😁
wow, very nice, absolutely fantastic - my dream factory! Wish you all the best from Vienna, Austria!
Thank you very much!
I look forward to seeing this ongoing . Looks a beautiful boat.
Yes I agree.
Great video, great company and jaw dropping amazing boat!
Thanks. I agree.
Pretty impressive brand.... Great business men as well.
I agree.
What an amazing video, thank you so much Craig!
Thanks for writing that Paul. Always nice to hear that.
Nice work Craig! Really looking forward to this series. I am hoping to get a test sail in Miami on another X5 (with Tamas) at the end of June. I cannot wait to see how my impressions jibe with yours. One day I hope to get to the factory too. Great point about the electrical work. Pretty sure that was one of the key factors for Nigel Calder and the Sail Magazine folks to give the X5 boat of the year honors in 2017. I have been under the hood of every catamaran in the 44-57' range coming to Annapolis over the past 5 years, and I have only seen a couple of boats approaching the build quality of the X5. I hope you received the message I sent through your app a few weeks ago that included a big list of questions for your sail. Have a great ride!
Doug Marder
Doug,
I’d be interested in chatting. I am also scheduled to see the boat in Miami that weekend.
Matt Hagans. matt@eagle-creek.com
Thanks Doug. I am not sure if I got them. I got a bunch from various people. To be safe, can you send them again to CruisingOffDuty@gmail.com.
Dear Doug. Thank you for the words of encouragement. It is pretty intensive to keep up a build quality with a boat as complex as the Xquisite X5. Clinton Johns ( Owner Phoenix Marine). I agree Craig did a great job and also looking forward to their journey
Cruising Off Duty Ugh. Didn’t save a copy. Will try to recreate and send directly. BTW - is there supposed to be a tracker feature on the app?
Absolutely brilliant. Cant help but think that if they could implement carbon fibre into their build to reduce weight, hence, improve performance.
Really nice.
My next boat. Thinking of several upgrades and a wow factor. Year 22 maybe 23 for open seas and fair winds.
Excellent video!
Thanks Brian.
wow what a surprise im starting my sailling 2025 and we have boat builders in my town
What a professional shop! Thanks for the tour.
I agree and You are very welcome TSR.
Nice to see a company full of proud workers taking pride in their craft and team lead by passionate experts wishing to build the best sailing cat currently on the market. I’m like many others no doubt wishing my pockets were a little less full of lint and more of the jingling stuff so I too could sail outta there. Better go get a lotto ticket!
Great video.
Thanks Coffee. Yes. Wishing I had much "Deeper" pockets myself. Its like getting to drive a Bently but then realizing you can only afford a Honda Accord. ha ha.
Have you never worked in a Job before? If you say something negative in front of a camera, your done ... just a fact of life m8
Shows what I always felt about their boats. Thanks
You are very welcome Lk. The factory tour exceeded my expectations on their focus on quality. It takes a lot to get ISO 9001 status.
This boat is on our short list. Awesome video, I love behind the scenes, forwarding to hubby now :)
That’s great Tori. Love a woman who knows what she wants. I doubt you’ll have much trouble convincing your hubby. It’s a nice boat and the quality workmanship is clearly a priority.
NICE cat! Perfect size and great layout and construction.
Yep. I totally agree.
Geez, these guys sound like Elon Musk! In house, no subcontracting, constant improvement and production streamlining. Excellent video!
He name says it all...Exquisite.
Yes. Good name choice.
At this stage I am only dreaming of eventually chartering a catamaran in the caribbean, but I still window shop on youtube (what the heck it's free!). After watching the factory tour I went back and watched the walk thru at 2017 boat show. If I understand correctly, the X5 comes with a lot of equipment standard, and has a very high quality, high end interior finish (I'm the wife so that is what I look at lol), so at $1.3M for a 50' catamaran, it seems like a value purchase to those in that market.
Thanks for watching both and commenting. Although not cheap for the average Joe and Jane, like me and my wife, but if you can afford it you are getting good value for money. IMO.
This is very impressive a world class yacht built in Afrika, very impressive
Yes. I was quite impressed with the factory.
Wow... well done. Impressive team and process. - thanks!
Thanks Cyclo
It would be interesting to compare, apples to apples so to speak, between the Xquisite X5 and it's counterparts by other manufacturers with the same features and equipment. I'm sure you couldn't get a 100% match but you could get in the ballpark. I don't think there's quite as big of a gap between boat prices, taken as a whole, as some might think. There's after the sale differences between boats too.
Agreed. After sales service is very important but often hard to quantify
Fantastic effort mate! BZ you.
Fair winds on your trip, Craig.
Thanks Bert.
Amazing tour! Hope you get a nice smooth sail across.
Thanks Ronny
Impressive design and manufacturing!
Nice job with this. Beautiful boat to say the least.
Thanks TJ
Wow. Great job!
Thanks Tom.
Thanks Tom.
Out standing, the QC is all important
Agreed.
Awesome! Great video! Be safe!
Excellent!
Great video. Thanks
Very nice!
Thanks Lindsay.
Amazing quality evident in every aspect of that boat. The employees also seem very motivated and dedicated to turning out a good product.
Do you know what the hull material is? Solid glass or cored?
I dont want to misquote. Best to go to the Xquisite website for full specs.
This is why the X5 is the best cat in the world. Nothing comes close. I'd love to own one
It is no where near the best.
It impressed me a lot on the quality build side. I liked it in Annapolis but you never see what is under the hood until you go and see how they build it. If I could afford it I'd signing up for one in the future production.
OCEANBLUE If you’re going to bother replying to refute his statement, at least provide your evidence or alternative. If you don’t feel this is the best, then what do you consider to be the best and why?
After watching a few videos regarding a French built boat I have come back to this video to see if there was any vision of bulkheads and how they are constructed .
None the wiser .
Hey there Craig! I dig the shades! Are they Serengeti? --
This is a great video. They really do show how their lowered costs by doing everything in-house has been reinvested in higher quality workmanship and components. I worked for a ISO 9000/9001 certified company before and know how much goes into getting and maintaining it. Your tour of the facility inspired me to go back and re-watch your tour of the boat at the boat show...checking the finished product again after having seen how the sausage is made. I noticed how they match the veneer wood grain from panel to panel, across door-to-wall joints/spaces, and drawers to cabinet frames. The stitching around the gill windows, etc. etc. Oh, and the wiring and layout of the engine room!
Oh...and nice tourist shots of South Africa too. ;-P
(Did you bring your Toonies? Did you trade for Krugerrand?)
Looking forward to all the stories and videos when you're 10-8 in a few weeks!
Thanks David. I was impressed as hell at the factory tour. As for the glasses..... I actually broke both pairs I brought to Cape Town so ended up just buying a cheap pair in the local mall. I have given up buying good pairs.
Wow now on my list!
I was impressed. You get a lot of bang for the buck. Even if the bucks are a bit more than we can afford. But to those that can, I believe this is a top choice for the Cruising Liveaboard couple of family.
very impressive! Thanks
Thanks Manfred
Awesome!
It was an eye opening factory tour. Great quality.
Wow 🤩 so much pride and quality. If I was in the market I definitely would consider this company it has the same mind set of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. I hope they became public trade one day. Now they just need to blow people out and make a fully electric sail ⚡️ boat just to show who is the boss. 👍
Yes. Quality is the focus. Electric, is the future. So I am sure one day they will go that way.
Wonderful presentation....i wish my pockets were a bit deeper...
I agree and am in the same boat as you. Pardon the pun. Need to find a way to come up with a chunk more but it would be an aspirational purchase to shoot for. :-)
Don’t leave the lovely Janice behind. She’s too lovely.
Agreed. I will never do a long passage without her being able to join me.
Great video... is Tamas ever going to consider raising the arch from the cockpit to the decks? I banged my head on it twice. The rest of the boat is rock solid and his after market support really is just unbelievably fantastic...
Hi Jason, thanks for the Heads Up :)). Owner- Phoenix Marine
awesome interesting video Craig👍 is the designer Dutch ? have a save sailing, good wind and a great adventure ⛵️🌎💪☀️
Thanks. Well he is South African and a lot of white S.A. Citizens have a Dutch or German ancestors.
And French: with French Huguenots arriving in SA in 1692. Today, many farms in these areas (Cape) retain their French names.
This place is 7mints away from my house. I want a tour awell lol its beautiful
Well now that you saw my video, you can feel like you had a tour. :-)
My girlfriend is from Ottawa but really grew up in Regina. We hope to do Ottawa next year and soon do the thousand islands or is it lakes? I didn’t know they existed until you mentioned it with your Beneteau
Cool. Maybe one day we meet. 1000 islands is the are of the St Lawrence that flowed out of Lake Ontario, which is one of the Great Lakes.
Very nice company with great quality. Wish they made a solar cat X5 and i had 1.1 mil to buy it.
I'm very curious to see if you have the hull slap like on the discovery cat.
I am already in Walvis Bay Namibia as I write this. The deck slap was almost non existent. When we were broadside there is some slap against the leeward hull but that is to be expected on any cat but when going down wind in 30+ knots in big waves it was very quiet.
The Rougher the Seas, the bigger the slap .. lessons to be learned
Wow Awesome tour, impressive, cant wait to see how the trip goes, great project. Question, what marine standards are the yachts built too, I see ISO9000, but are there others?
I think you should send an email to Tamas at Xquisite. I am sure he can fill you in.
ISO 26262 is the safety standard for cars as far as torque security. With the increasing amount of current and voltage capacity in a non metal boat sitting in conductive seawater, I would want to see the electrical isolation standard. Any modern hybrid vehicle has safeties built in when isolation between the 300V 400A electrical grid and the cockpit breaks down.
Very nice but all of the custom parts will be VERY expensive when they break. I would like if they used more generic parts for common parts that fail in time due to wear. But love the boat...I guess if you can afford a 1.3 million boat, a $100 custom washer will be no problem.
I am quite sure if anything breaks you would just call Xquisite and they would send you a new "custom" part at a reasonable price. They seem to have a goal to keep their after sales service top notch to that the boats don't depreciate like many other boats do.
I hope to make it to Annapolis this year. Is it still slated for Cdn thanksgiving?
Yes. It is always the weekend of Canadian thanksgiving.
Great job Craig, thanks for an amazing tour of a beautiful cat. Love the window designs. I wonder if they would put electric motors for the propellers. Have good and safe trip and looking forward to you next video. Thanks and best from HKG
probably can install something like this ua-cam.com/video/y-zHceQ0Qu4/v-deo.html
Thanks Laurent. I did ask Tamas about an electric option. He said they dont have the power to push at a decent speed for a lengthy period of time that a boat would need to cross oceans. So it sounded like they were not interested at this time in doing an all electric model.
Thinking I may go the custom route.... as none have anything that suits my needs.
Somewhere between a Lagoon and a Privilege... With full NMEA2K control with digital switching.
A full beam owner's suite forward, without the fly bridge... That's for charter tourists.
The Lagoon 46 was SO close
It will be very expensive to have a boat built to your exact specifications. If you can afford that, go for it. Then invite me to come sailing and I will film it for you. :-)
@@Bowmans-Woods Oh you people and your over priced laminated fiber boats - go Ferro instead ;)
Only one question really. Why use so much wood instead of (the yanks call it Nitercore )
plastic honey comb. Wouldn't it save weight ?
They use lightweight plywood and foam core so they are doing what they can to reduce weight without going too plasticy.
Hello Craig , thanks for the Factory Tour, just curious, ......what Dean Catamarans did Rudolf Jonker design before the company went out of business?
Rudolf was the lead desinger at Dean. So, I guess he did it all.
@@Bowmans-Woods That being said would you consider the 2012 Dean 5000 for a future purchase?
Good built it catamaran. What is the price in 2020 of this X5 ?
You'd have to ask them.
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I am broke right now but I will have a boat like this is in future.
Best of luck.
I love this boat but it's too big and costly for us, are they planning on making a smaller version? A 45 footer would be great :)
We are in the same boat. Love it but can't afford it. They are not planning a smaller boat. Perhaps a larger one one day.
@@Bowmans-Woods that's too bad, i hope they reconsider that decision at some point. The maintenance and docking cost are the main issue for us, we want to stay under 46' to keep that as low as possible as we will be retired like you guys and on a budget.