page_title: Beneteau First 26
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Beneteau First 26 / Design
caption_attribution_description: English: A Beneteau First 26 sailboat named Endorphin.
context_page_description: The Beneteau First 26 is a French sailboat that was designed by Jean Marie Finot of Groupe Finot as a cruiser-racer and first built in 1984.
context_section_description: The First 26 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. The deck is a sandwich of balsa, fiberglass and polyester. It has a deck-stepped mast with aluminum spars, a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a slightly reverse transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel or, optionally, a stub keel and centreboard. It has 70 in (178 cm) of headroom in the main cabin and sleeping accommodation for five people.
  The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo 2001 8 hp (6 kW) diesel engine for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds 6 U.S. gallons (23 L; 5.0 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 13 U.S. gallons (49 L; 11 imp gal).
  The design can be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker with an area of 603 sq ft (56.0 m²). The boat has a hull speed of 6.42 kn (11.89 km/h).
caption: Beneteau First 26
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