VX sailboats for sale

Buying a used VX: a one-design class, not a single yard's product line

A used VX doesn't come from one factory. All three models carry the name of a one-design class built by established Olympic-class small-boat yards — Ovington Boats in the UK and Mackay Boats in New Zealand, jointly, since August 2013 — under a tightly controlled production arrangement meant to keep boats built oceans apart to the same standard. Design and intellectual-property ownership sit apart from construction again: Bennett Yachting held the design rights from the class's founding, and Mackay Boats acquired them in a March 2024 transfer. None of that changes who actually laid up the hull in front of you, but it does mean build-standard consistency across the yards matters more here than chasing a single "yard reputation."

Which era to target

The VX One is the two-to-three-person sport keelboat that started the class, launched in the United States in 2012 with a UK and European debut in 2014, by which point close to 100 boats had already been built to the class's strict one-design rules. Buyers looking at this model get a keel that lifts clear for road transport — raised on the main halyard rather than a dedicated winch — meaning a One can move between regattas on a combination trailer without a haul-out. The VX Evo followed as a singlehanded asymmetric dinghy: lighter, at 77 kilograms in a double-vacuum epoxy lay-up, with a "Comanche cusp" transom shape borrowed from modern TP52 hull forms for stability, and a hull put through the USA's small-craft certification process aimed at holding up for roughly a decade and a half of racing — a durability target worth weighing against a given boat's actual wear. Choosing between the two is really choosing a racing format: two-to-three-person keelboat sailing on the One, or singlehanded asymmetric-dinghy sailing on the Evo.

Navigating the lineup

Whichever model fits the sailing you want to do, the build story is the same: Ovington and Mackay have built the range jointly since its earliest years, under a one-design association whose formal constitution, technical rules, and multi-continent racing activity earned the VX One official International Class recognition from World Sailing. A third option beyond the One and Evo, the VX Two, is a Mackay-built doublehanded skiff sharing the Evo's hull under a reconfigured deck: a wide, shallow, open cockpit adds righting-moment leverage for the hiking crew, an open transom ships water clear, a flip-up rudder rides a quick-release skewer, the daggerboard stows flush in its trunk, and high-aspect foils with sharp, pointy edges reward careful handling ashore. That governance layer, not a single manufacturer's track record, is what backs a used VX's one-design legitimacy — worth confirming against the full model directory on this page before comparing boats further.