Beneteau Evasion 34

The Beneteau Evasion 34 is a French sailboat that was designed by André Bénéteau as a motorsailer and first built in 1980.

Production
The design was built by Beneteau in France, from 1980 to 1984, with 180 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Evasion 34 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. The hull is solid fibreglass and the deck is balsa-cored. It has a cutter rig, with a deck-stepped mast, one set of unswept spreaders and aluminium spars with continuous stainless steel wire standing rigging. A ketch rig was optional. The hull has a raked stem, an angled transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by two wheels, one in the wheelhouse and one in the cockpit. It has a fixed fin keel or optional stub keel with a steel centreboard. It displaces 12125 lb and carries 4850 lb of cast iron ballast.

The keel-equipped version of the boat has a draft of 5.09 ft, while the centerboard-equipped version has a draft of 7.07 ft with the centerboard extended and 3.94 ft with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water.

The boat is fitted with a inboard 30 or diesel engine for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds 52.8 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 79.3 u.s.gal.

The design has sleeping accommodation for eight people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, a double berth in the midship cabin, a U-shaped settee around a table in the wheelhouse that converts to a double berth and an aft cabin with a double berth on the port side. The galley is located on the starboard side of the wheelhouse, aft. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, a refrigerator and a double sink. A navigation station is forward of the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side and includes a shower. Cabin maximum headroom is 71 in.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 969 sqft.

The design has a hull speed of 7.20 kn.