Beneteau Oceanis 37.1 sail tour at sea: evolving a family cruiser mainstay 

The 51.1 still to this Day is one of the most innovative well designed sailboat I ve ever seen. The space, the layout, feeling like a 60+ feet yach

Not my cup of tea, but I'm bigger and older. 30 year old me would have had a different point of view. I like the honesty of the review. It's a value production boat, and proud of that. It will Island hop with the best.

We have a 38 we e had since new and I don’t see anything here that would make us want to switch. We like the separate shower in our 3 cabin. The arch is nice and we’ve upgraded the lighting and many detail make it much nicer inside

320,000 Euros for that cheap, no frills, mass production boat? No way!

I like the 43.1

Thanks for a really thorough overview, as usual, Toby. It would be nice if more French boat makers were egalitarian and made more effort to make the lower end boats better designed or at least better styled inside. Yes, it costs a bit more to do good design, but given the higher number of boats built at the relative low end, those costs are spread out much more, and the incremental cost per boat is low. In other words cheap boats don't need to look cheap, and it doesn't cost much more to make them look better in terms of design, given the high production volume.

Ok, so not to be critical but! I find the older "oceanis" models to be better built than most beneteau. This one however, seems not very ocean worthy... costal cruiser at best but id probably classify it as a lake boat...

I wonder how you're supposed to have a sprayhood with the companionway opening just below the mainsheet traveler

Thank you for the revıew!

Ikea interior makes this boat no good.

Isn't the biggest market for these models as charters in the Med? If so, the tiny hatches in the aft cabins really do not allow adequate ventilation.

Have Beneteau started making boats for sailors yet or are they still only making day cruisers and boats for dock princesses to instagram from?

Is it possible to get these hulls to planing ?

2:33 Tables are for glasses not asses.

Nice boat. Hey there lottery ticket, what's up?

4:37 that really, litereally sucks

It was produced on the territory of colonialist France.

Not for the true sailor. More wrong than right with it.

Charter boat designed and built by accountants who will take no responsibility for return on your investment.