Beneteau First 44.7 - "French Kiss"

The Beneteaus's First series is the world leader in production-built, racer-cruisers winning the Boat of the year honours in all their models. Our Beneteau First 44.7 called "French Kiss V" is the fastest of it's kind having as proof our outstanding performance on the 2006 Land's End Toronto Nood Regatta finishing third under command of our Commodore Monte Friesner.

Our custom-built First 44.7 was designed to perform well in IRC, with little aspiration toward one-design class development. The Beneteau First 44.7 is the first of the current crop of First models that was designed with IRC, a system of measurement which classifies a broad range of cruising and racing ballasted mono-hull keel boats for competition by providing rating comprising single figure allowances based on time. As such, it should be, foot-for-foot, the fastest boat of its class.