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47,7
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The Beneteau 47.7 is a Bruce
Farr design created without regard
to handicap rules, so the hull lines
are both powerful and slippery. This
boat draws on the successful (but
now discontinued) 45f5 for a number
of features, but adds many new ones.
Performances and handling
The cockpit is wide (too wide to
brace your feet on the opposite
seat) with a pair of Lewmars sunk
into each coaming. The helmsman's
office is notable for an immense
wheel that allows the skipper to
plant his rear on the teak-side deck
either side of him and use the
scalloped bench seat across the
transom. Three cockpit lockers
provide storage. All the sail
controls lead to Lewmar 44s with
Spinlock stoppers at the forward end
of the cockpit. At the
transom, a fold-down platform is
teak-planked and perfect for
swimming or boarding the tender.
Undersail, this is a fun boat,
although it's not an easy
single-hander, because there's a lot
of sail to trim. But it's light and
responsive on the helm, with good
visibility over the house and from
the lee side. As the breeze builds,
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Specifications
(owner's version in parenthesis) |
- Year of built: 1999 - 2002
- Cabins: 4 (2)
- WC: 2
- Guests in cabins: 8 (4)
- Guests on board: 10 (6)
- L.O.A.: 14,54 m.
- L.W.L.: 12,61 m.
- Beam: 4,54 m.
- Draft: 1,82 m. - 2,74m.
- Fuel capacity: 250 lit
- Water capacity: 700 lit
- Engine: 56 - 78 hp
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easily until the lee rail nears the
water, at which point it stiffens up and
feels like it would take a gale to put it
down another inch. Once settled comfortably
into this groove, the 47.7 goes upwind like
the proverbial scalded cat, knocking off
eight knots in a 15 knot breeze.
Accommodation
All in all the cabin is cavernous
and, though the cherry stain seems dark, the
salon remains bright as a result of the big
skylight in mid-cabin (which is a light at
night) in addition to no fewer than nine
opening ports and two hatches.
The
saloon has immense headroom, and Beneteau
gets good marks for providing plenty of grab
rails to help you move around this spacious
area. A dinette is to starboard with a
curved banquette outboard and a smaller
bench seat inboard. The table gimbals to
handle various heel angles, and there's
ample seating for the whole crew. To port is
another settee and the
nav station, which
also has the electrical panel and a
dedicated tool storage.
The L-shaped
galley is aft to starboard so it's out of
the way, and the cook has acres of
countertop that wraps around from the double
sink past the stove lid (with covering board
on rollers) and aft over the
refrigerator/freezer.
Two-, three-
and four-cabin layouts are offered.
The
charter version (4-cabin layout) offers
two mirror cabins aft and another two
forward. The head and shower are forward.
The day head is just forward of the aft
cabin, also with shower.
Charter price
The charter price, at €4.100 per week, is
high compared
with vessels of the same age and size, but
on the other hand only a few of them offer
what this boat does.
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