- Builder:
- BENETEAU
- Category:
- Cruising/Racing Sailboat
- Sub Category:
- Cruising Sailboat
- Model Year:
- 2005
- Year Built:
- 2005
- Country:
- United States
- Cockpit:
- Yes
Unfortunately, this boat is not available for sale. It will be removed from the website soon.
BENETEAU - available for sale:
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Southern Cross has been owned and cared for by one (family) owner and always professionally maintained. Always kept in freshwater marinas (Chesapeake Bay and St Johns River FL). She has full 2005 Specs with sought after upgraded cockpit configuration, lowered wheel with wheel-well
Used extensively as a family cruiser, club racer and CBYRA High-Point Championships contestant. She has an enviable record of scoring more first places than any other position during her racing career, which includes several club championships, many class wins in races such as Governors Cup, as well as CBYRA High-Point Championships (more than once). Winner of the Pierre Le Brott Trophy in 2008 (Overall PHRF Champion on the Chesapeake Bay).
This boat has never suffered any structural damage and shows clean and cosmetically good.
Maintenance kit
2 Winch handles
Owner’s record and handbook
21 gal fuel tank
Engine compartment
soundproofed and insulated to CE standards
Engine29 h.p. Volvo 2030 saildrive
Two-blade folding propeller
Hour meter and fuel gauge
12 volt circuit
1 x 70 amp battery – engine (Now 110 amp)
1 x 105 amp battery – house (Now 110 amp)
14-functions electrical panel
Navigation lights
110v shore power
110v battery charger (20 amp)
Beneteau First 36.7 with Performance Shoal Keel 5'11" draft.
Hull : Solid fiberglass/GRP with structural hull liner, laminated for load bearing and distribution
Deck : fiberglass/GRP balsa sandwich for rigidity reinforced with unidirectional rovings, weight saving, insulation and soundproofing
Interior Wood: Cherry stained finish
All bulkheads bonded 360 degrees to hull and deck for structural strength
Composite fiber rudder and stock
Stainless steel stemhead fitting with roller
Self-bailing anchor locker with cleat
Stainless steel bow pulpit with navigation lights
Teak toe rail along the hull-deck junction
6 Aluminum mooring cleats
Stainless steel stanchions s/s bases and double lifelines
1 2-stage Lewmar racing mainsheet traveller track with ball-bearing car adjustable under tension
2 Lewmar racing genoa sheet tracks adjustable under tension
Mainsail tackle with ball-bearing blocks
2 Lewmar 40 AST maneuvering winches
2 Lewmar 44 AST genoa sheet winches
Spinlock XT deckstoppers
Wichard foldaway padeyes for spinnaker blocks
2 semi-recessed shroud chainplates
Wheel with compass
Self-aligning upper and lower rudder bearings
2 Lazzarette cockpit lockers
Teak helmsman seat
Teak-slatted cockpit seats and lockers
Aft lockers : port for gas bottle, starboard for stowage
Liferaft compartment below helm seat
Emergency tiller
Stainless steel aft pulpit with aft pulpit opening lifelines and horseshoe buoy holder
Stern light on pulpit
Stainless steel retractable swim ladder
Cockpit shower
9/10 fractional rigging
Double spreaders
Anodized aluminum boom.
Mast step fitting with Lewmar blocks.
Stainless standing rigging
Backstay adjuster
Sparcraft rigid boom vang
Profurl Genoa furling system
1 Mainsail halyard
2 Genoa halyards
Two speed mainsheet system.
2 Genoa sheets
2 Reefing lines.
1 Outhaul line, vang line
Settee with cushions and back rests.
Removable salon table with folding leaves and stainless steel bar.
Lockers above the seat-backs
Stowage in the settee backs rests
Lewmar opening hatch with blind.
Fixed hull portholes.
Grabrails
Overhead halogen lights.
Opening ports.
” Formica” floorboards
Chart table with storage.
Space for instruments.
Stowage for charts.
Stowage under nav seat.
12v electrical panel.
Wooden hand rail.
Lewmar opening porthole
Double stainless steel rectangular sinks with mixer tap pressurized hot and cold water
Gimbaled 2-burner LPG stove with oven and stowage underneath
12 volt electric refrigerator
Cutlery drawer
Trash can
Stowage compartments with doors
Overhead lights
1 Lewmar opening porthole with roller blind
Wooden hand rail
Halogen lights
Fully molded head compartment with USCG approved marine toilet and holding tank(10gal).
Round wash basin with mixer with retractable shower head, pressurized hot and cold water.
Mirror
12v sump pump for shower.
Towel racks and accessories.
Overhead light.
Lewmar opening hatch
Double v-berth
Storage under berth
Shelves alongside hull
Hanging locker
Opening Lewmar deck hatch
Halogen reading lights
Double berth
Hanging locker
Shelves along the hull
Stowage space under berth
Reading light
1 Lewmar porthole opening into the cockpit
1 Lewmar porthole opening into the cabin side
Electric bilge pump
Hand- operated bilge pump
79 gals fresh water capacity
Pressurized water system with expansion tank
12v sump pump for shower
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The 36.7 is American made at Beneteau’s recently expanded factory in Marion, South Carolina, but her interior has a distinctly European influence. Proceeding down below, we discovered the companionway ladder to be one of the best we found. It’s not too steep and has wide curved treads that will be safe in a seaway. The interior plan is well laid out with an obvious emphasis on cruising. Racers will be pleased by the attention given to the removable dining table. Once removed, a brace is left in place to provide a hand hold and to also separate sails stowed atop the laminated cabin sole. To port, the galley is large for this length of boat has an appropriately-sized countertop sporting fiddles that are a full 3" deep. These fiddles are substantial and will definitely keep things from spilling off. The nav station to starboard is spacious and the forward head adequately sized. Twin, mirror image, aft staterooms have large double berths, hanging , and privacy doors. This is sure to be attractive for boat partnering where equal staterooms are a plus. One concession we noticed is the forward vee berth. It is minimal for two averaged-sized adults to sleep in but is a perfect spot to put the kids. All of the onboard systems such as the Volvo sail drive, the DC electrical panel and plumbing runs were properly installed, cleanly led and neatly bundled. The nicely crafted woodwork is done in African mahogany which has an evenly applied cherry stain with a high quality varnished finish.
The literature we were given states that this "design incorporates a variety of innovative features at an incredible value." Being a custom boatbuilder myself, its honestly hard to fathom how they build this boat for the price its being offered. Beneteau says that with their proprietary construction methods they need to hit a production rate of 70 boats per year to make the numbers work and if they build 100 they ll do just fine. It looks as though they have hit the targeted market on most points and shouldnt have difficulty reaching their goal. With a high boat-to-dollar ratio, the First 36.7 is sure to yield a lot of value for the buyers dollar, along with some silver as well.