Testing the Seawind 1160XL in Thailand
September 3, 2026
My wife and I have owned four Seawinds over the last 15 years, culminating in our current boat – an 1160 Lite delivered in June 2022. We’ve had huge fun racing and cruising the boat up and down the coast of New South Wales and so you can imagine how keen we were to take up the offer to check out the new 1160XL, with a cruise from Seawind‘s new Thailand charter operation.
The Seawind base is about a two-hour drive south of Bangkok at the ocean marina in Pattaya. As well as the new charter operation, this is now the main base for Seawind deliveries in the Asia/ Pacific region. It’s a well set up marina with interesting cruising grounds in all directions so Seawind customers can begin learning and enjoying their boats straight after delivery.
We met our friends Gary and Fiona at the airport and drove down together. Our other friend Michael was already there and had drawn the short straw to do the provisioning.
Stowing our gear and the food gave us the chance to get our first impression of the boat. At one level it felt very familiar, as it retains the overall layout and feel of the 1160 Lite which we like so much. But there are differences. The extra volume in the berths and saloon strike you straight away. So does the flat deck and the overall feeling of being a bit bigger. The boat actually is bigger, but I think the impression of extra size also comes from the new styling which just gives it presence.
This boat was the first 1160 XL produced. It had already had a very thorough shakedown cruise when being delivered from Vietnam down to Singapore for the boat show, and then back to Thailand.
Once the gear and food were stowed, we did our pre departure inspection. As this was a brand-new boat we weren’t expecting to find much but there are a few things I always like to look at in addition to the standard checklist, regardless of the boat’s age.
One thing is to check that the waste tanks are truly empty. It’s easy to be reassured by the discharge valve being open and assuming that the tank has drained. But I like to give the tank a tap or two just to make sure there’s not a blockage in the line. The Seawind set up makes this easy to do whereas on many other boats the tank is hidden behind interior panels. If you do encounter a blockage, again the Seawind set up makes clearing it easier, and the setup with the valves means that you can do most things without dumping a tank load of sewage into the bilge.
Another thing to check are the little rings that lock the pins on the lifelines and shrouds. These can begin to migrate out or get bent and leave a sharp piece of wire sticking out. On my own boat I cover them with electrical tape to secure them in place and stop them snagging me or my spinnaker.
The XL redesign has allowed the boat to be approved to the XXXX standard. This means that the lifelines are now 800 millimetres high and there is an escape hatch in the hull. Boats have been lost through failed escape hatches. I actually found loose latches on a boat we chartered, so this is an area that always gets my attention. The setup on the XL doesn’t have any latches, you break the glass with a little hammer. The hatch is also located in a protected position right at the back of the hull and up above the waterline. If you’re going to have an escape hatch, that’s about as good an arrangement as I can think of.
Our plan was to sail the boat to the Koh Chang island group which is just over 100 nautical miles south and east round the Thai coast. This would require two full days of sailing to get to the islands and then we were planning to spend each night in a different location.
The Koh Chang Island Group, also known as Mu Ko Chang Marine National Park, is an archipelago of over 50 islands in Thailand’s Trat Province near the Cambodian border, famous for its lush interiors, waterfalls, diverse wildlife, and beautiful beaches and reefs.
There is tourist accommodation scattered through the islands, including a couple of reasonably flash resorts. But, generally speaking, it’s low-key. The most important thing is that you can usually get a sundowner, good meal and an ice cream in most of the anchorages. Our provisioning list was therefore pretty simple – two days of self-sufficiency for the trip down followed by fifty percent of lunches and dinners ashore. We had arranged to have the boat delivered back to the Marina to maximise our time in the islands.
The first leg of our journey was the 67 nautical mile run to Ko Samet. We got away at first light so that we would be anchored well before dark. We were making the trip in November, just after the Northeast winds had started to blow, as this is the best time of year for sailing in these waters and almost immediately, we had up to 15 knots on the rear port quarter. Often when chartering you can go for days without wind but in this part of the Gulf of Thailand in November that’s not a problem. This wasn’t just going to be a swimming and eating holiday, but there would be some real sailing as well.
We hoisted the main and pulled out the screecher and pretty soon we were coasting along at 7 to 8 knots with the engines tucked up. This version of the boat has the 25 hp Yamaha’s fitted – the same as the Classic 1160. There is also an option to take 50 hp engines, or you can have two 29 hp Yanmar diesels.
The Yamaha 25’s are perfectly adequate for cruising and push the boat along at a nice 6.5 knots with a reasonable fuel consumption. But the XL has quite a bit more windage to push around compared to the classic 1160, due to the higher deck and slab-sided styling. At the end of our trip, we had to pick up a mooring buoy which required rotating the boat from beam on to point into a 25 knot to 30 knot wind. With the 25 horsepower engines going flat out we eventually got there, but anyone considering this boat with outboards would be very wise to think about the 50’s because they really make the difference when maneuvering the boat.
As Pattaya disappeared behind us, we threaded our way through a series of islands and then turned east. We took a shortcut through an island group which brought us around to pretty much hard on the wind. We rolled up the screecher and pulled out the jib, relishing the chance to see how the XL handled wind on the nose.
Working to windward is one of the real strengths of the 1160 Lite and this was our first real test of whether the upgrade came at the cost sailing performance. The XL has a little bit of extra weight, and the new styling probably contributes a bit more aerodynamic drag, but it has also had had extensive modification below the waterline to provide improved hydrodynamics and increased buoyancy forward. The XL also a larger sail area so that the sail area to displacement ratio is preserved.
The result? We were very pleasantly surprised to find that the boat pointed well and ghosted nicely up the narrow channel in the light winds between the mainland and one of the islands. Backing this up, when I got back to Sydney, I had the chance to race on an 1160 XL against a classic 1160 Lite fitted with aftermarket sails in one of our regular Thursday evening races with the Multihull Cruising Yacht Club , and the XL more than held its own.
The rest of the run to our first night’s anchorage was in more open water and so we were able to put the screecher back out, cruising effortlessly on a flat sea. We dropped anchor on the eastern side of Ko Samet to give us an easy start for the next day’s run. The crew went ashore to stretch their legs, and I was left in charge of the Spag Bol. I was down giving it a stir when I looked out the window to see a medium-size rib approaching with some guys on board in full military gear including flak jackets. Given that there was a war between Cambodia and Thailand just down the road this was a bit concerning.
Turns out we had anchored in the wrong spot, and the guys were rangers not soldiers. They were friendly but very firm about us moving on and they led us around to the western side of the island to Proa Beach for the night. This turned out to be one of the most comfortable anchorages we had in the whole trip.
We were off at dawn the next day for the 77 nautical mile run to the Ko Chang. This was a terrific day’s sailing with a fairly solid nor’easter all day at about 90°. We covered the distance in just on 10 hours, although we did motor sail the last four hours as the wind died away as we came into the lee of the northern islands of the group. Most of the day, though, we had 10 to 20 knots on the port beam. With the screecher out it was champagne sailing.
As the morning went on a wind chop of about 1 metre built up coming in at 45° to the bow and moving round to being almost on the beam from time to time. This was a good test of the additional buoyancy up front and the new hydrodynamic lines. The classic 1160 in these conditions can tend to bury its bows, which can be uncomfortable and also slow the boat down, but the XL handled it well.
Apart from motor sailing, we needed to run the engines to put some charge in the batteries because, as luck would have it, the main sail totally blanked the solar panels for the whole day. Outboards have their pluses – they are lighter than a diesel installation and you can pull them out of the water to save drag – but they don’t generate much electrical power, and so on longer trips keeping your batteries charged is something to watch. If you’re thinking of buying one of these boats with outboards and doing a lot of cruising it might even be worth considering the dedicated generator option. Or you definitely need to carry a portable generator and charge the batteries through the 240 V mains socket.
Our second night was spent Ko Mak just off the beach. The next morning, we took the dinghy across to Ko Kham which has a lovely sandy beach and is the site of a deserted resort. According to the local lady running the drink stand you can buy the whole island for 2 billion baht.
By now we had settled into a rhythm living on the boat. With the triple door raised there is plenty of space and, even with five people, it never felt crowded. I do think the internal volume increase also provided a possibly unconscious addition to that sense of space. One of our crew gets claustrophobia and often spends the night in the saloon on our boat, rather than down in the berth. She commented without prompting that the additional headroom in the berth made her feel much more comfortable and she did the entire trip sleeping down below.
Over the next few days we visited Ko Yak Lok for some great snorkelling and finished up on the very bottom of Ko Kut at Phrao Beach, which was about 25 miles south of our final destination.
On our second last day a strong northeast wind set in so we worked our way as far north as we could and then found a sheltered anchorage at Ko Wai for our last night. The next day we only had about 10 miles to run but it was straight into 30 knots with a decent fetch over fairly shallow water. The result was a really nasty chop. This was head and shoulders the best test you could imagine for the additional buoyancy up front and the higher deck.
The first couple of miles of our journey was up between two islands, so we had no choice but to go straight into the waves and wind. This was also in shallow water, so the chop was at its nastiest. The boat handled it well and we made about two knots over the ground. Once clear of the island we pulled half the jib out and were able to tack our way across the bay at about 6 or 7 knots boat speed. All in all, the boat handled these conditions very well. Every situation is different, so the reaction is somewhat subjective, but I do think there was less propellor ventilation and that the boat sat flatter and kept her bows up compared to the 1160 Lite.
We finished our journey at Salek Phet and had lunch at what is reputed to be the best seafood restaurant in the island group. We had really enjoyed our time on the 1160 XL. Sometimes upgrades can just be marketing hype, but we felt that this one was the real deal. The comfort and usability of the boat has been enhanced by a significant increase in internal volume, little touches like the extended scoops, the extra volume forward and the flat decks. And all this has been achieved without a big increase in weight and preserving one of the 1160 families’ great attributes – it’s sailing performance. In fact, we liked it so much we’ve now ordered a diesel-powered version.
And the Ko Chang Islands were a very pleasant surprise as well. They have all the attributes of other Thai destinations; that is great beaches, great swimming and good food. But added to that you are often the only boat in the bay and these days anywhere you can get away from the tourist crowd has got to be an absolute bonus.
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