2024 Beneteau America First 18 SE (American Edition)
A wide, flat and stable hull, ballasted swinging keel, gennaker snuffer system, furling jib, and minimized deck controls all facilitate an easy-to-handle yet lively sailing experience. Easily dismantled and trailered, she'll surely fulfill racing ambitions in international one-design classes as well as adventurous sea-camping.
Basic Boat Info
Dimensions
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Hull and deck constructed with hand layup of Soric and foam sandwich with glass fibres reinforced with polyester and vinyl ester resin
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Chainplates bolted to the hull
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Hull reinforced with a stringer and bulkheads of the two insubmersibility chambers
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Deck with moulded high traction non-skid
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Two transoms hung rudders built of GRP foam sandwich mounted in custom aluminium cassettes
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Bolts, screws and fittings made of marine grade stainless steel
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Hull and deck moulded in single tone off-white
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Hull sheave in a gel coat finish - prepared for the application of antifouling
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Cast iron swinging keel with epoxy primer and antifouling protection
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Stainless steel winch with dyneema high modulus rope for hoisting the keel
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Safety pin arrangement for fixing the keel in the keel box
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Slots trip keel lips closing the exit of the keel box
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Lifting straps attachment point on the top of the keel box
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Stainless steel chain plates for shrouds and forestay,
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Semicircular opening hatch on the foredeck for light and ventilation,
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Ronstan blocks and cleats for the mainsail, jib and gennaker control lines,
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Ronstan jib track,
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Composite tiller with Ronstan tiller extension,
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Soft (neoprene) cover while sailing and hard (plexiglass and GRP) cover for storage and transport
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Attachments for engine bracket on stern
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Manual bilge pump operated from the cockpit
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Carbon fibre mast and boom with local reinforcements
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Mast protected with UV resistant foil, boom and bowsprit spray- painted with UV clear coat
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Extending carbon fibre bowsprit
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On-deck gennaker snuffer system
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Bartels stainless steel jib furler set
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U-bolt mooring rings on mid-bow and stern (3 pieces)
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Custom mast foot which allows for easy setting of the mast without a crane
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1x19 standing rigging with bottle screw adjusters
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Outhaul with 2:1 purchase led inside the boom
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Mainsheet with cleat, swivel, ratchet and four ball-bearing low friction blocks
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6:1 boom vang purchase
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Two 2:1jib sheets with blocks and cleats
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One 2:1 Dyneema main halyard with cleat
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One Dyneema jib halyard
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One masthead gennaker halyard/gennaker retrieving line
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One bowsprit control line
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Composite shackles for attachments
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Two gennaker sheets
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8:1 Cunningham control line with blocks and cleats