About this tender
The X40L Lander is the utility boat in the Reliant Yachts X40 trio. The brief was a 40-foot tender that has to be practical first, always ready to load and deliver bulky stores and equipment, but with the proportion and finish to behave as a luxury SUV in the afternoon. MacFarlane and Ewing drew the lines; Reliant built it.
The Lander shares the X40 design language with its two sisters, the Express chase tender and the Limousine ship-to-shore. Same hull family, same metallic silver paint with black accents, same Rhode Island design hand. What changes is the deck layout and the running gear: the Lander is dimensioned to load gear in the morning and unload guests at the beach in the afternoon, with 750 L of diesel for working range.
At 24,250 lb the Lander is roughly a third heavier than the other X40 boats. That weight buys equipment, fuel, freshwater, ballast, plus black and grey water tankage to operate independently of the mothership. Cruise sits at 11-16 knots in working trim with a 24-knot top end. Not a sport boat by design; a working tender that happens to look like part of a coordinated three-boat programme.
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Drawn from the start as a working tender. Stores, equipment, beach gear, water toys, all loaded and unloaded over a deck laid out for the job. Then the same boat invites a crowd aboard for an afternoon at the beach and runs to a secluded inlet for cocktails and al fresco dining. Few utility tenders manage both halves; this one does.
At 24,250 lb the Lander is around a third heavier than the X40 Express and Limousine. The extra weight buys equipment volume, fuel capacity, freshwater, ballast, plus black and grey water tankage. Result is a tender that operates independently of the mothership for full days, which most utility tenders cannot.
Cruises 11-16 knots in working trim, top speed in the 24-knot band. Not a chase tender; a credible utility boat that gets where it needs to be efficiently and stays steady in the working speed range. The 750 L of diesel gives the operating range that justifies the brief.
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Reliant Yachts · Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Tell us about your yacht, your programme, and the missions Lander needs to handle. We come back within 48 hours with a written assessment - fit for the brief, lead time, and trade-offs against alternatives in the same band.
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