Beneteau Oceanis 37

Beneteau Oceanis 37, Built late 2008 to the 2009 spec. - £76,950
The Beneteau Oceanis 37 is a thoroughly modern family cruiser. This late 2008 example features the premium "Elegance" trim level with a full teak deck, among other refinements.
She has the single aft-cabin "owners" layout, giving a roomier feel to the accommodation with two good-sized double cabins, and a deep keel providing excellent performance.
In the present ownership since 2021, she presents beautifully; dry, clean and with excellent woodwork. New standing and running rigging in 2024 and a new furling genoa (also in 2024), plus many other replacements and upgrades.

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Accommodation

Forward cabin: This, the ‘owner’s version, offers a centre-line berth ahead of a generous cabin sole area, with vanity unit (with dedicated stool) and overhead closed cave lockers to port side, while a half-height hanging locker and fiddled shelves are fitted to starboard. There is also provision of a drawer for storage beneath the berth without having to disturb the mattresses. Light and ventilation from above, with an ambient ventilator being fitted to the usual opening deck hatch. A good quality ‘Ocean Air’ blackout blind/insect screen is fitted to the head-lining.

Saloon: A spacious accommodation space, this main cabin is light and airy being lit with two fixed hull ports combining well with three overhead decklight/ opening hatches. The light and welcoming ambience is enhanced by cream-coloured ‘leather’-style seating that contrasts nicely with a light-toned, but warm wood veneer. U-shaped seating is provided around the port side of a relatively large, double leafed table, opposite a straight, full-length settee/berth to starboard. There is top access to the seating locker behind to port, again enabling access without too much disruption.

Nav area: Facing aft, the chart table can be sat at on the aft end of the starboard settee. The surface is surrounded by a deep fiddle to hold things in place, with stowage within. Three closed locker doors provide surface area for instrumentation to be fitted at eye-level, although in this instance the space behind the doors remains used for storage. All the primary instrumentation being fitted outside in the cockpit, with a single multi-head repeater at the chart table.

Galley Area: Located to port side and L-shaped in form, the galley features an expansive peninsular, with twin sinks notably placed and orientated such that they can be worked at, either from abaft, or from the end of the peninsular, thereby enabling two persons to be working at the galley at the same time. There is a smaller, fiddled surface abaft the cooker’s gimballing aperture too. A front opening 12v refrigerator is provided, and a further top opening storage compartment with a handy reversible lid – one side work surface/the other a fibre chopping board.
A large locker door to the end of the peninsular opens to access large fiddled shelves, opposite yet more enclosed shelving within the chart table’s supporting base. This, featuring cutlery storage and deep shelving for pan stowage. A 240v Microwave oven is located in a locker above the chart table, and a relatively large rubbish bin is door-hung beneath the main working area.
The galley is provided with good over-head ventilation, with two opening portlights being fitted within the long-styled fixed window to the port side of the coach roof. A two-burner gas cooker with oven is gimballed behind a stainless steel crash-bar and there is provision for a ‘bum’-strap to support the cook when on port tack.

Heads compartment: In this, the owner’s single aft cabin version, there is more volume to enable the heads compartment to be more generous, with the showering area separated from a ‘drying’ area by hinged acrylic panel. Good light and ventilation levels are offered by two opening portlights and the closed lockers, all being mirror-fronted lends a sense of space too.

Aft cabin: A wide double berth offers equal headroom to both occupants by being orientated athwartships abaft the engine space, with the ‘head’ end being under the height afforded by the port side’s cockpit coaming. Opening portlights to the transom and to the cockpit let light and ventilation to the space. An independent leather cover seat, ahead of the berth itself, provides for sitting down to put on socks etc. without having to sit on the berth itself. A half-height locker offers clothes hanging in this cabin.

Mechanical and Electrical Systems
A Yanmar 3YM30 29Hp three-cylinder, indirectly cooled and naturally aspirated marine diesel engine is fitted and drives a three-bladed propeller with rope cutter through a conventional shaft. Currently, an hour meter records approx. 1050 hours run from new. The engine has been fully serviced each year.

Electrical:
2 x 12v 120A/hr domestic batteries (fitted new in 2025)
1 x 80A/hr engine cranking battery.
Batteries charged by engine-driven alternator (replaced new in 2025), shore-powered battery charger and solar panel
Victron Energy BMV712 Battery monitor with Bluetooth connectivity to a phone app
240v Shore power connection
Rutland windcharger on stern mounting pole connected to a Marlec HRDi Charge Controller and separate Marlec remote display
150w Semi-flexible PV/Solar panel

Tankage:
Fuel – 130 litres with electrical sender and gauge.
Water – 361 litres with sender and gauge. .
Holding – 80 litres with deck and to-sea evacuation facility.

Rig and Sails
Rigged as a 15/16ths sloop, with single swept spreaders on aluminium spars by Z-Spars of France and a Profurl headsail roller furling system. All standing rigging was replaced with new in 2024 and both the main sheet and the headsail sheets were replaced new in 2021. The main halyard was new in 2021 too. The boom is designed to offer single-line reefing of two of the three reefs provided in the mainsail.
Mainsail stackpack with lazyjacks

Sails:
Mainsail - by Elvstrøm; semi-battened with low-friction roller luff cars.
105% roller-reefing genoa by Highwater Sails of Plymouth (new in 2024).

Navigation Equipment:
Within cockpit:
• Raymarine C90 8” chart plotter to steering pedestal.
• Raymarine ST60+ multi display with log and depth data.
• Raymarine Autopilot with beneath-deck direct drive to steering system.
• Raymarine ST60+ Windspeed and direction instrument.
At chart table:
• Raymarine ST60+ ‘Graphic’ multi-data repeater.
• Icom IC-M411 VHF/DSC radio with additional cockpit speaker.
• AIS receiver.
Deck Equipment:
Manson Supreme high-holding anchor with approx. 35m chain & additional warp
Quick electric anchor windlass with hand-held wired controller
Shore freshwater supply inlet point
Outboard motor storage pad on stern rail
Custom cockpit cushions in Sunbrella fabric
Fenders & Warps

Safety Equipment:
Ocean Safety 6 person ISO 9650-1 liferaft (Service due)
XM Oscar MoB rescue device
Two Horseshoe lifebuoys
Nereus LPG alarm
Fire extinguishers, including an engine space automatic extinguisher

General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as Liferafts, Epirbs, fire extinguishers and flares etc. are usually personal to the current owner(s) and, if being left on-board as part of the sale of a used vessel may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet a new owner’s specific needs.