Beneteau Evasion 37

The Beneteau Evasion 37 is a French sailboat that was designed by André Bénéteau as a blue water motorsailer and first built in 1980.

Production
The design was built by Beneteau in France, starting in 1980, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Evasion 37 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 masthead ketch rig, with a deck-stepped mast, one set of unswept spreaders and aluminium spars with continuous stainless steel wire standing rigging. The hull has a raked stem, an angled transom, an skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a two wheels, one in the cockpit and one in the wheelhouse. It has a fixed stub fin keel and a retractable steel centreboard. It displaces 17637 lb and carries 5000 lb of exterior cast iron ballast.

The boat has a draft of 7.75 ft with the centreboard extended and 4.07 ft with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water.

The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4-108 diesel engine of 40 or for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds 75 u.s.gal and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 150 u.s.gal.

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double berth in the aft cabin, two U-shaped settees in the main salon and a midship cabin with a double berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the port side of the wheelhouse, just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is of straight configuration and is equipped with a two-burner stove, a refrigerator and a double sink. A navigation and steering station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. There are two heads, one in the forepeak and one on the port side, aft.

The design has a hull speed of 7.50 kn.