Description

The Beneteau Evasion 37 "ALGOL" is a well-proven and much admired cruising ketch.The Evasion 37 is a motorsailer with the emphasis on sail. She has internal and external steering positions and benefits from Beneteau's sailing boat design heritage.

These boats tick a lot of boxes and were built in an era of substantial mouldings. A lot of boat for the money and well maintained with a good broad specification.

Dimensions & general info.

- LOA - 11.33m

- LWL - 9.54m

- Beam - 3.58m

- Draft - 2.00m.

- Displacement - Approx. 9000kg.

- Ballast - Approx. 2197kg.

- Headroom - 1.90m

- Built - 1981

- Builder - Beneteau Yachts FR.

- Designer - Andre Beneteau.

Hull, deck & superstructure

The Beneteau Evasion 37 is a GRP motor sailor with fin keel, internal and external steering positions and a central cockpit with raised aft deck. 

- Cream (gelcoat) GRP hull.

- Deck - Side decks and foredeck in cream non-slip GRP. The raised aft deck, and cockpit is laid with teak.

- Substantial iron fin keel.

- Skeg hung singe rudder.

- Wheel steering internally and externally.

- Unwater hull epoxied from new.

- Hull soda blasted back to epoxy winter 2010 and coated with two further coats of epoxy before being primed and antifouled.

- Hull taken back to primer again in 2020.

- Antifouled and new anodes spring 2025.

Additional maintenance

- New saloon windows 2019.

- Floorboards refurbished 2019.

- Interior lighting refurbished 2019.

- Gunwhales stripped and revarnished 2022.

- Teak deck refurbished 2024.

- New aft cabin windows 2024.

Interior & accommodation

- New upholstery 2015.

- Eberspacher diesel fired warm air central heating.

- Electric cool box.

- Full compliment of galley items including crockery and cutlery.

Forward heads

- In the bow is one of two heads.

- To port is a marine flushing toilet with cupboard above.

- To starboard is a sink with pressurised hot and cold water via a mixer tap.

- Separate shower head.

- Cupboard with polycarbonate sliding doors for toiletries.

- Mirror.

- Cup holder and soap dispenser holder.

Saloon

- L shaped seating to port with pilot berth above.

- Single settee berth to starboard with storage above.

- Large, double leaf table with solid stainless steel frame.

- Plenty of storage under the seating areas and under the pilot berth.

- Coachroof windows with curtains.

The galley and internal helm are within the raised coachroof area with large forward windscreens and side windows giving a panoramic view for the helm and lots of light for the interior. 

Internal helm

- There is a raised steering position to starboard with helm seat, engine and navigation instruments and ships electrical distribution panel.

Galley

- The L shaped galley is aft to port, opposite the internal steering position. It is at the entrance to the corridor leading to the aft cabins.

- Double, full sized sinks, one with a cover.

- Pressurised hot and cold water via a mixer tap.

- Secondary filtered cold water supply via a pressurised tap. Spare filter.

- Gimbaled 3 burner gas cooker with oven.

- Front loading Dometic fridge.

- Storage above with polycarbonate sliding doors.

- Plenty of additional storage and good work surface area.

Corridor aft to port

- Giving access to the aft cabins via a door.

- Side access to the engine compartment. Two panels can be removed to give good maintenance access.

Corridor facilities

- Outboard are wash facilities shared by the two aft cabins. Wash hand basin with pressurised hot and cold water and cupboards for storage.

Aft shared heads

- There is a separate heads compartment with manual marine flushing toilet.

Starboard aft cabin

- Double berth with hanging locker.

- Access to aft heads and wash facilities.

Aft  cabin

- Large double offset berth to starboard, wrapping round to a settee and desk to port.

- Wrap round shelf.

- Large storage area under the aft cabin berth.

- Hanging locker.

- Coachroof windows.

Deck & deck equipment

Deck

- Stainless steel pulpit and stanchion posts running twin guard wires to the aft deck. There are side access gates.

- The guard wires meet the stainless steel aft deck rails which extend the full length of the raised deck area and partially wrap round the stern with central access wires.

- Centre cockpit with teak floor grate and teak laid seats.

- The raised aft deck is laid in teak.

Deck equipment

- Fixed dinghy davits.

- Electric anchor windlass with control & spare. New circuit breaker and cleaned and refurbished 2023.

- 22kg Mantus anchor, new 2019 with 60m of grade 4, 8mm chain connected with a stainless swivel, new 2023.

- 20kg kedge with 6m of chain and 50m warp.

- Fortress alloy anchor for sandy bottoms.

- Outboard crane.

- Boarding ladder.

- Side boarding step.

- Three foredeck mooring cleats, 2 x midship cleats and 2 x aft cleats.

- Fenders and mooring warps.

- Deck wash pump with expanding hose..

- Deck brush & bucket.

- Boathook.

- Hook & Moor buoy pick up.

- Mooring pick up hook.

- 60m towing line.

- 2 x 60m multi braid shorelines.

Winch gear

- Winchrite electric winch handle.

- Manual winch handles.

Rig, rigging & sails

Rig

- Ketch rigged.

- Standing rigging age approx. 2007. Regularly inspected.

Running rigging

- Maintained in good working condition.

Sails

- Dacron mainsail. Laundered and serviced by Owen Sails 2025.

- Dacron Mizzen. Laundered and serviced by Owen Sails 2025.

- Dacron Genoa. Laundered and serviced by Owen Sails 2025.

- Cruising chute and snuffer. Not serviced.

Engine

- 2007 Yanmar 4JH4AE, 54hp diesel engine with shaft drive.

- Engine hours - Approx. 3506.

- Last engine service Spring 2025. Filters, oil and impeller changed.

- New fan belt tensioner 2021.

- New fuel lift pump 2022. Old one is a usable spare.

- New oil pressure sender 2022.

- New cutlass bearing 2022.

- Stern gland repacked 2025.

- Bronze 3 blade fixed prop.

- Engine panel rewired 2024.

- Engine spares including filters, oil and coolant.

Electronics & navigation equipment

- Standard Horizon GPS Chart CP300i chart plotter. New 2024.

- Autopilot.

- Koden CVS 102 radar display.

- Garmin GPSMap 750S. Cockpit.

- Garmin 128 GPS.

- Horizon DSC VHF. New 2021.

- iCOM IC M-71 handheld VHF.

- Entel submersible handheld VHF

- NASA speed/log. New 2023.

- Clipper wind speed and direction.

- Clipper Duet depth.

- Ascot Electronic Barometer / Temp.

- Tide clock.

- Hand bearing compass.

Electrical

- 12v ships system.

- 240v shore power system with internal 13A sockets.

- 12-240v power inverter.

- 12v 30amp Sterling Pro Charge Ultra Lite digital/adaptive battery charger. New 2020.

- 3 x 115 Ah AGM domestic batteries. New 2025.

- 2 x new engine batteries 2022.

Tankage & systems

- Fuel - 1 x 272L stainless steel tank with inspection hatches.

- Water - 2 x 200L flexi water tanks under the saloon sole. New 2025.

Systems

- Eberspacher diesel fired heater.

- Pressurised hot and cold water.

- Hot water via a calorifier tank.

- Gas system with 3 x Calor gas bottles. New gas hose to the bottle 2020 and to the cooker 2021.

- Heads discharge seacocks changed 2020 and pipework cleaned and rear heads refurbished 2023.

Canvas work

- Owen Sails sprayhood. 2015.

- Owen Sails dodgers. New 2018.

Safety gear & equipment

- Ocean Safety 6 person liferaft, 2022 with 20yr life. Bespoke single person launching system.

- Emergency tiller.

- Life buoy.

- Dan buoy.

- Compass rescue harness.

- Electric bilge pump. Rewired and new float switch 2025.

- Carbon monoxide alarm.

- Emergency ball valve and through hull plugs.

- Bosuns chair.

- Bolt cutters.

- Anchor ball.

Additional equipment

- Honda 2hp 4 stroke outboard. New 2019. Serviced 2025. Spare engine oil.

- Zodiac dinghy with oars, pump and repair kit.

- Extensive tool kit.

- Extensive list of boat spares including greases, oils, gelcoat repair etc...

- 2 sets of jump leads.

- Diesel hand pump.

- Water hand pump.

- Water filler funnel.

- 2 x diesel filler funnels.

- 2 x 10L spare red diesel containers (full).

- 1 x 5lt petrol container (empty).

Specifications