A fun and sporty family cruiser - Beneteau Oceanis 34.1 - Yachting Monthly 

Indeed! Is it lowly polyester or vinyl-ester to start with?

​@@puertola7186 He does indeed do full reviews in the magazine- these vids are teasers to bring you in to subscribe. The magazine reviews are quite comprehensive and well done, IMO.

@@General_Crock Thanks!

There’s a reason. These boats are basically floating ikea furniture. Having had to repair a few of them there’s no way I’d take one anywhere I couldn’t get back to a mooring by nightfall.

@@hughmaxwell8143 exactly. My first boat was a new jboat, vinylester resin, balsa core with fibre glass, a stupid shallow keel sump which the 2t keel is bolted to with in line bolts! Naturally the keel detached. Miraculously I nor my wife didn't die, they repaired the boat by just burying the sump in epoxy, destroyed my laminated interior in the process. I got to sell her for half her value. I was not the only one by a long shot. The French company closed and reopened under a slightly different company name. This was supposedly a high quality brand. What it was was under constructed and over priced, I.e. a standard production boat. I only buy second hand racing boats as they are cheap and some are beautifully engineered and constructed with epoxy carbon etc. I have just brought a lutra v1 30 and it's great previous was RP 1D48 which took my family on a 20k odyssey. Screw production boats.

I read the review of this boat in a sailing magazine. I was truly looking at the picture like WTF is happening here. The article just went over the no backstay rig without really thinking anything of it. However I feel like this is quite revolutionary for this type of boat and would love to know the details and max forces that this type of rig can take. I know small boats have rigs like this but tue forces when going downwind and hitting a wave must be insane… what all needs to go into the chainplates. Interesting stuff.

maybe its for casual sailors but, the problem is the hefty price.

Boats such as the Hunter Legends have lacked backstays without significant numbers of rig faolures. The problem is with downwind saoling where the swept back spreaders severely affect how far the main can be let out. Coupled with a self tacking jib, deep angles offwind become untenable. That is not obvious to a relatively inexperienced sailor at a boat show, nor particularly relevant to charter companies where boats will mostly motor between islands. It doesn't make for an enjoyable sailing experience, though.

yup. I don't see how this competes with the used catamaran cruising market