Beneteau Escapade

The Beneteau Escapade is a French sailboat that was designed by André Bénéteau as a cruiser and first built in 1976.

Production
The design was built by Beneteau in France, starting in 1976, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Escapade is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a cutter rig with a bowsprit, with one set of unswept spreaders and aluminium spars with stainless steel wire standing rigging. The hull has a highly raked stem, an angled transom, an keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel. It displaces 9480 lb and carries 3086 lb of ballast.

The boat has a draft of 4.10 ft with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with an inboard 15 to 30 hp diesel engine for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds 22 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 53 u.s.gal.

The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double "V"-berth berth in the bow cabin, a drop down dinette table that forms a double berth in the main salon and a quarter berth on the starboard side, under the cockpit. The galley is located on the starboard side of the main salon. The galley is of straight configuration and is equipped with a two-burner stove, an ice box and a sink. A sliding chart table is mounted aft of the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker.

The design has a hull speed of 6.23 kn.