page_title: Beneteau 323
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Beneteau 323 / Design
caption_attribution_description: English: A Beneteau 323 sailboat motoring.
context_page_description: The Beneteau 323 is a French sailboat that was designed by Jean Marie Finot and Pascal Conq of Group Finot/Conq and first built in 2001.
  The Beneteau 323 was also marketed as the Beneteau Oceanis 323, as well as the Beneteau Oceanis Clipper 323 and a version was sold as the Moorings 32.2.
  The design was named Boat of the Year at the 2004 Oslo Boat Show.
context_section_description: The Beneteau 323 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass. The hull is single skin polyester fiberglass, while the deck is a polyester fibreglass and balsa sandwich. It has a masthead sloop rig with a deck-stepped mast and aluminium spars, a nearly plumb stem, a rounded reverse transom with a walk-through swimming platform, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel. Optionally it was built with a fixed fin (shoal draft) keel, deep draft keel or stub keel with a centreboard combination.
  The boat is fitted with an inboard diesel engine of 18 to 22 hp (13 to 16 kW). The fuel tank holds 17 U.S. gallons (64 L; 14 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 22 U.S. gallons (83 L; 18 imp gal).
  The hull speed is 7.24 kn (13.41 km/h).
caption: Beneteau 323 motoring
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