The 2025 Beneteau Cup brought excitement to Sydney Harbour with memorable racing and camaraderie among sailors and attendees ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The wind may be subsiding in the sailing superyacht market as trading swings back to pre-Covid levels, but ...

In its press call this morning on the first day of the 2025 Cannes Yachting Festival, Groupe Beneteau confirmed customer demand for time on the water remains strong, even amid global uncertainty.

The larger of the two new Prestige models, the M8, was praised by Robb Report after a sea trial. But it also raised some eyebrows. It had a distinctly high-volume, even boxy, outward appearance that ...

Beneteau has an ambitious new mission; to create a planing cruiser. Sam Jefferson buckles up aboard the First 30 to see if it achieved this aim. I’m going to start this review with an apocryphal story ...

Groupe Beneteau has released its full financial results for 2024, revealing a 29.4 per cent decrease in full-year revenue from 2023. The French boating giant says it is looking to the second half of ...

Editor Sam Jefferson takes us around the new Beneteau First 30 – here’s everything you need to know about this innovative design. French giant Beneteau’s acquisition of Slovenian boatbuilder Seascape ...

Marking the 140th anniversary of BENETEAU, the all-new First 30 introduces an exciting new category of sailing boats—the planing cruiser. She delivers a unique combination of exhilarating planing, the ...

The boating press will get their first up-close look at Benetau’s new First 30 in a special briefing before doors open to the public at boot Düsseldorf next weekend. The Samuel Manuard design was ...

Few things can beat the rush one gets when a sailboat starts planing—that exhilarating moment of ‘lift off’ when the boat breaks free from the chains of displacement speed. That’s what sailors expect ...