Unlike anything else | Bente 28 yacht tour | Yachting Monthly 

It's so refreshing to see a modern, innovative small yacht for a reasonable price. I'm really impressed!

Very, very interesting yacht with features not found on most other 28 footers and at an approachable price. I was looking at some Dutch yachts but they are considerably heavier and much more expensive. This looks like it could be lots of fun for the two of us,

Nice boat, amazing with smart design the space you get in 28ft boat.

This might be my favourite boat in this size. Whoever designed this should be very proud.

BEAUTIFUL boat, but theres more room on my 1988 Jeanneau Sundream 28, engine access looks terrible on the Bente 28 too.

Cool boat. Great review. Lots of good design elements. The stanchion support pegs have stubbed toes written all over them. Lol. But regardless, very cool.

I like the idea of yachts at Porsche prices. Not for me though, as an old retired codger, I sail older used and much bigger boat for similar money. What I do like that is yachts like these will become very affordable when they are a few years old. It is a good way for first time owners to aquire a boat. We all did it, I started in my twenties with a Contessa 26. A very wet, cramped, slow and small yacht. I have fonder memories of her than any other yacht that I have owned😀.

An induction hob on a sailing boat only works on Lake Constance or when it is calm.

I like the cabin spray extension, but there's a massive gap at the sides between it and cabin top, well it looked open not glazed by perspex. This should be closed off with the contol lines fed though ferrules.

It's a daysailer. Hence all the "I guess if you were cruising you could.....".

German daysailer with German landlubber interior design. A near 30ft boat that somehow doesn’t have a gimbaled stove, a massive greenhouse because lake sailors apparently can’t stand to be in fair lake sailing conditions - but costs almost as much as a Pogo 30. It’s like trying to compete against the Dehler 30 OD but somehow worse & from a yard that has gone bankrupted once already.

Ok. 25 knts of wind. Boat is heelled. You take a seat on the lee side, more confortable....and you get a stram of water running through that gap netween the cabin and the arch.... that will wake you up!! You were supose to be on wacth!!!

how will it do in a sunny place like SA? I think it might be an oven?

Would you be able to take this offshore for long voyages if you modified the stove or is the boat as a whole not made for it?

didn't mention that curve from the keel back to the transom of the hull, its not going to be a super fast planing boat... you can see from the video with the asymmetric spinnaker up, it doesn't get up on the plane at all..

I can see plenty of sore heads happening on that coach roof extension

Are you a journalist or a sales rep? I'm surprised that you do not question the design choices or ask the actual builder's rep for more information.

Would like to see an electric motor there. Otherwise really nice

Did you miss the head? Or maybe I did.

The dodger is almost useless, when you can't stay dry under it. Having a glass roof means having direct sun in the salon. Imagine this on a nice afternoon...sauna!! No closed cabins at all. And then the price. The Bente 24 was planned as an affordable little fast cruiser/racer. And now see where we have come. The 28 is just an expensive boat. And, sorry to say, it even doesn't look nice.

Head?

Don’t see how you get forwards safely. The canopy seems silly if you can’t sit under it. Think a few heads are gonna get thumped at the most forward seating point just before the front berth. Where do sails get stowed? All on deck I guess.. Personally I think the saloon roof(though a design signature) is compromising Bente boats. Substance is important too and to this end the roof although looking cool is a limiting factor. Don’t like it. Art for art sake!

I'd say the open (or rather, missing) transom would disqualify it from being a good family cruiser... Adding a proper transom would add perhaps 20 kg of fiberglass and resin. Stupid place to save weight and material.