About this tender
Reliant Yachts Lander - what we know.
The Reliant Yachts Lander is an 11.5m beach lander from Reliant Yachts, built in Newport, Rhode Island, USA: jet power, 24 knots and 14 guests.
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.