2025 Beneteau First 14

CONSTRUCTION

• Vinyl-ester vacuum infused hull, deck and structure with PVC foam cored sandwich and glass-fibres

• Hull and deck moulded in single tone off-white gelcoat

• Rolled antiskid on the cockpit floor

• D2 design category following European Directive and CE certification requirements

DAGGERBOARD & STEERING ARRANGEMENT

• Two daggerboard casings (forward casing for full-sails set setup, aft casing for mainsail-only sail configuration)

• One GRP daggerboard in the gelcoat finish

• One GRP rudder blade in the gelcoat finish

• Anodized and powder-coated aluminium rudder box with carbon tiller and Ronstan Battlestick tiller extension

COCKPIT

• Adjustable central foot strap with elastics

• Attachment points on the sides of the hull and on the inside of the cockpit in the stern for “Removable wheels” option

RIG

• Two-section carbon mast without spreaders

• Carbon boom

• Carbon bowsprit

• All carbon parts are UV protected

• Mainsail, jib and gennaker halyard

• 1/19 3 mm / 0,12 inch shrouds with stay adjusters on the side shrouds

SAILS

• North Sails OneDesign racing square-top full-batten mainsail, Pentex laminate, 8,8 m2 / 95 ft2

• North Sails OneDesign racing furling jib with vertical battens and zipper along the luff, Pentex laminate, 2,9 m2 / 31 ft2

• North Sails OneDesign racing gennaker in red colour with retriever attachment points, nylon, 13 m2 / 140 ft2

MAINSAIL CONTROLS

• Mainsheet with blocks, a-frame and cleat on the boom

• Carbon gnav (upside-down vang) system with purchase and cleat on the mast foot

• Cunningham purchase with a cleat on the mast foot

• Outhaul adjustable at the boom-end

JIB CONTROLS

• Jib furler set and furling line

• Continuous jib halyard in the zip-pocket with jib cunningham

• Self-tacking jib track with adjustable limiters, jib sheet, blocks and cleat on the mast foot

GENNAKER CONTROLS

• Retractable carbon bowsprit with running rigging equipment, controlled over the gennaker halyard

• Gennaker halyard and retriever line as continuous single-rope, with cleat and blocks

• Continuous gennaker sheets with automatic ratchet blocks

• Gennaker snuffer

Build To Order