2025 BENETEAU First 18 SE

SPECIFICATIONS

• Length: 18’ 3’’
• Beam: 7’ 10’’
• Displacement with standard keel (MLC*): 1102,31 lbs Standard keel
• Draft: lifted keel: 7’’, lowered keel 4’ 11’’
• Ballast: 276 lbs Shallow keell
• Draft: lifted keel 11’’ , lowered 3’7’’
• Ballast: 320 lbs
• Mainsail: 168 ft2
• Jib: 97 ft2
• Mast (carbon fiber): 24’ 3’’
• Boom (carbon fiber): 9’ 10’’
• Bowsprit (carbon fiber): 4’ 7’’
• Hull/deck material: GRP
• Insubmersibility volume: 35 ft3
• CE design category: C4
• Naval architect: Manuard YD
• Concept and R&D: Seascape Team
• Industrial design: EP Studio
• Performance optimisation: Tomislav Bašič, Samuel Manuard, Francois Coutant
• Air draft: 27’ 11
• Height on trailer: 7’10’’ - w/o mast 6’1’’
• Length with trailer: 24’3’’ - w/o mast 23’7’’

CONSTRUCTION

• Hull and deck constructed with hand layup of Soric and foam sandwich with glass fibres reinforced with polyester and vinyl ester resin
• Chainplates bolted to the hull
• Hull reinforced with a stringer and bulkheads of the two insubmersibility chambers
• Deck with moulded high traction non-skid
• Two transoms hung rudders built of GRP foam sandwich mounted in custom aluminium cassettes
• Bolts, screws and fittings made of marine-grade stainless steel
• Hull and deck moulded in single tone off-white
• Hull sheave in a gel coat finish - prepared for the application of antifouling

KEEL ARRANGEMENT 

• Cast iron swinging keel with injected GRP protection layer and gelcoat finish (not racing-grade flawless polished finish)
• Stainless steel winch with dyneema high modulus rope for hoisting the keel
• Safety pin arrangement for fixing the keel in the keel box
• Slots trip keel lips closing the exit of the keel box
• Lifting straps attachment point on the top of the keel box

DECK EQUIPMENT 

• Stainless steel chain plates for shrouds and forestay
• Semicircular opening hatch on the foredeck for light and ventilation
• Ronstan blocks and cleats for the mainsail, jib and gennaker control lines
• Ronstan jib track \ Composite tiller with Ronstan tiller extension
• Soft (neoprene) cover while sailing and hard (plexiglass and GRP) cover
• for storage and transport
• Attachments for engine bracket on stern
• Bilge pump operated from the cockpit

STANDING & RUNNING RIGGING 

• Carbon fibre mast and boom with local reinforcements
• Mast protected with UV resistant foil, boom and bowsprit spray-painted with UV clear coat
• Retractable carbon fibre bowsprit
• On-deck gennaker snuffer system • Bartels stainless steel jib furler set
• U-bolt mooring rings on mid-bow and stern (3x)
• Custom mast foot which allows for easy setting of the mast without a crane
• 1x19 standing rigging with bottle screw adjusters • Outhaul with 2:1 purchase led inside the boom
• Mainsheet with cleat, swivel, ratchet and four ball-bearing low friction blocks
• 6:1 boom vang purchase
• Two 2:1 jib sheets with blocks and cleats
• One 2:1 Dyneema main halyard with cleat
• One Dyneema jib halyard One masthead gennaker halyard/gennaker retrieving line
• One bowsprit control line
• Composite shackles for attachments
• Two gennaker sheets
• 8:1 Cunningham control line with blocks and cleats

SAILS

• North Sails OneDesign racing square-top full-batten mainsail, Pentex laminate, 15,6 m2 / 168 ft2
• North Sails OneDesign racing furling jib with vertical battens and zipper along the luff, Pentex laminate, 9,0 m2 / 97 ft2

OTHER EQUIPMENT

• Shrouds tension gauge
• Purse with keys for assembly
• Numerical lock system for the main entrance hatch
• Mast transport baG

 INTERIOR

• Interior covered with topcoat and with white gel coat on the moulded parts for clean and low maintenance finish 
• Double V-berth with insubmersibility volume underneath
• Storage volume place under the sides of the cockpit
• Keel winch protective cover