Beneteau First 26
The Beneteau First 26 is a French sailboat that was designed by Jean Marie Finot of Groupe Finot as a cruiser-racer and first built in 1984.Production
The design was built by Beneteau in France from 1984 to 1991 with about 300 examples completed, but it is now out of production.Design
The First 26 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. The deck is a sandwich of balsa, fiberglass and polyester. It has a deck-stepped mast with aluminum spars, a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a slightly reverse transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel or, optionally, a stub keel and centreboard. It has of headroom in the main cabin and sleeping accommodation for five people.
The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo 2001 diesel engine for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of.
The design can be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker with an area of. The boat has a hull speed of.Variants
;First 26 fin keel
;First 26 centreboard
