Beneteau
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Beneteau is a French sail and motor boat manufacturer, with production facilities in France and the United States.
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History
Shipwright Benjamin Beneteau founded his company in 1884, at Croix-de-Vie, France to build sailing trawlers. In the mid sixties Benjamin's grandchildren Annette Benneteau Roux and her brother Andre Beneteau introduced a line of fiberglass boats. Madame Roux is still active in leadership.
Beneteau Today
The company is a large and recognized boat builder, commanding a substantial worldwide market share for sailing yachts, predominately in the United States, France and the United Kingdom. It has five factories in the Vendée region of France and one US plant in Marion, South Carolina. The Beneteau USA plant opened in 1986; since then the factory has nearly doubled in size to about 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2), with roughly 25 million of total capital invested in the US. This is considered to be an advanced marine factory; it is newer than most of its competitors factories.
The Beneteau group also owns the following brands:
- Jeanneau
- CNB
- Wauquiez
- Lagoon
- O'Hara
- IRM
- Microcar
- EYB
Note in the models below that the First Series is much faster than the Beneteau Series (lower PHRF means a faster boat), the latter series have similar performance ratings to similarly sized Catalina models.
Beneteau Models
NOTE: PHRF shown is for Northern California Base Rate full keel standard mast unless otherwise described
First Series
These are racer/cruiser sailboats, with a higher emphasis on the racing aspects, yet are substantially equipped for comfortable cruising. Equipped with tall fractional rigs, high performance keels and upgraded deck hardware.
- First Class 8
- Beneteau First 27.7
- Beneteau First 31.7
- Beneteau First 10R (32.75 ft)
- Beneteau First 36.7 PHRF 81 (Southern California rating)
- Beneteau First 40.7 PHRF 51 (Southern California rating)
- Beneteau First 44.7 PHRF 39 (Southern California rating)
- Beneteau First 50
Beneteau Series
These are more traditional cruising boats, though these boats are viable for Performance Handicapped Racing Fleet (PHRF) handicapped racing.
- Beneteau 323 PHRF 144
- Beneteau 343 PHRF 151
- Beneteau 373
- Beneteau 37
- Beneteau 393 PHRF 150
- Beneteau 423 PHRF 102
- Beneteau 46
- Beneteau 49
Flagship Series
The largest boats produced by Beneteau. There is more focus on amenities than in other Beneteau products.
- Beneteau 523
- Beneteau 57
Oceanis Series
Is the performance cruiser range of yachts produced by Beneteau .
- Oceanis 40
- Oceanis 43
- Oceanis 46
- Oceanis 50
- Oceanis 58 (to be released June '09)
Lagoon Models
Lagoon Catamarans are the world's best selling production Catamarans[1]. All of the boats are cat-rigged sloops with spacious cabins in each hull and living space on the bridge deck.
- Lagoon 380, more than 500 boats
- Lagoon 410, more than 280 boats
- Lagoon 420, the first hybrid catamaran
- Lagoon 440, 250 boats built in three yars
- Lagoon 500
- Lagoon 570
- Lagoon 620
- Lagoon 67
See also
References
- ^ "Lagoon Catamarans - About". http://www.catamarans.com/lagoon/about/index.asp. Retrieved on 2008-12-05.
External links
- Beneteau Corporate website (France)
- Beneteau USA
- Beneteau in Spain
- Beneteau Owners' Association website
- Motor Boat and Yachting magazine
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