Sailing World Magazine’s annual Boat of the Year tests are conducted in Annapolis, Maryland, following the US Sailboat Show. With independent judges exhaustively inspecting the boats on land and ...

Beneteau’s designers tuned in closely to the way we boaters in the US and Canada use our vessels. For serious passagemaking, the company offers its highly successful Swift Trawlers, which Boating has ...

Running at 20 knots through the tight-spaced 2-footers on Chesapeake Bay, I told my crew to hold on and eased the throttle forward, first to 25 knots, then to 28 knots. At 30 knots, I let the boat ...

Boats from a Beneteau First 265 to a Figaro Beneteau 3 left from the Aberdeen Boat Club clubhouse, with Tracy and Easy Breezy winning their classes in front of Beneteau’s sales director Asia-Pacific, ...

Designed for bluewater comfort and coastal agility, the all-new Oceanis 47 balances performance and liveaboard luxury. Courtesy Beneteau Beneteau is set to debut its eighth-generation Oceanis sailing ...

These are the first words from judge Chuck Allen’s mouth after a breezy morning test session with the Beneteau First 14 on which he and the BOTY team carved wakes all across Narragansett Bay. In 10 to ...

The First 30 lives up to its billing. Locked in at 12 knots, the helm goes light and the wake screams past that open transom. Courtesy Beneteau In the 2023 Boat of the Year contest, perhaps the most ...

The Beneteau 36.7 North American Championship regatta returned to the San Diego Yacht Club for the first time since 2005 Friday with 11 Beneteau 36.7s sailing up to 11 races. The racing, through ...

A boat's history affects it's value—check the history of this 2013 Beneteau and avoid buying a previously damaged boat.

Fifty years ago, Beneteau was a small, family-owned company that made fishing boats in a French village. Now it's the world's top sailboat maker, with dealers in 50 countries. Reporter Eleanor ...