2005 Beneteau First 44.7Sold
$164,500
Boat in San Diego, CA 92106 US
Built in 2005
First 44.7
1 Engine (YANMAR)
44.9 feet
Diesel
Fiberglass/Reinforced
From the worlds largest sailboat manufacturer, Beneteau and the design power-house office of Bruce Farr and from the incredible world-wide success of both the Beneteau First 40.7 and 36.7 classes comes the Beneteau First 44.7. The First 44.7 offers the best of both worlds, high-performance sailing and racing sail-plan and layout, coupled with beautiful cruising amenties very comfortable for the family or group of sailors alike, the 44.7 is truly a 'do-it all' Racer/Cruiser.
"Pacifico" is ideally set up for SoCal. with her carbon fiber mast which is two feet higher than the Beneteau "tall-mast" option, yielding a High-performance, grand-prix type of sailing. Pacifico in her early days was built-in France for a customer in Stockholm, Sweden, then sold and sailed out of Lake Champlain NY, before heading to San Diego. Owner occasionally races Pacifico and spends every summer Cruising, and in around Catalina Island for months at a time, configured with a water maker and a removable solar panels, among other cruising amenties, for weeks on end during the endless summers.
Recent Upgrades and Options
-Carbon Fiber Race Mast (2 Feet taller than the Beneteau Tall - Rig)
-Bottom Paint/ Race Bottom Nov. 22 (Sprayed-faired)
-New Rudder Bearings (Upper and Lower Bearings w/ upgrade Jaffa bearings (Jan 2024)
-Engine Service Oil Filters (April 2025) (Impeller/Water Pump Nov. 2024)
-Solar Panels and Water Maker
-Racing Certificates available upon request including ORR, TCF, and PHRF
-Removable Electric Anchor Windlass
-Kelp Cutter install for Racing (2019)
-(2) Carbon Fiber Spinnaker Poles and Removable Carbon Fiber Bow Spirit
-B&G Full electronics including Autopilot and Multiple Displays
*** Preliminary Listing- More photos, specs, Sail INVENTORY- Coming soon
Engine:
Engine YANMAR
Model: 4JH4AE - 54 HP
Drive Type: Sail Drive
Propeller: Gori 2 blade Folding prop
Tanks
Fresh Water Tanks: (106 Gallons)
- Reverse Osmosis water maker
Fuel Tanks: (53 Gallons)
Accommodations
MAIN SALON:
- Teak and holly sole, interior woodwork is Beechwood-stained finish.
- U-shaped settee with centerline table to starboard converts to double berth.
- Navigation station and cabinets, drawers, and shelves to port.
GALLEY:
- Located to starboard midship.
- 2 Burner gimballed LPG stove with oven.
- 12V electric refrigeration.
- Double stainless-steel sinks with hot/cold pressure water.
FORWARD CABIN:
- Offset double to starboard.
- Small settee and hanging locker to port.
- Closed storage outboard and beneath berth.
- Forward head ensuite.
TWIN AFT CABINS:
- Double berth & hanging locker in each cabin.
HEAD (x2):
- Forward head with access from forward cabin only.
- Aft head located midship to port.
- Vanity and sink with hot/cold pressure water.
- Integral shower.
- Marine toilet with overboard discharge and holding tank.
- 12V sump pump for shower.
- Special cabinetry in both heads for more storage, factory installed.
Charging System:
- Battle Born LiFePo4 Lithium-Ion batteries (Mar 2023)
3ea - Model BB10012 100H House Bank
1ea - Lifeline GPL3100T Starter (Oct 2021)
- Balmar AT-165 high output alternator
- Wakespeed (WS-500) regulator (Mar 2023)
- Magnum MS2012 Pure Sine Wave Inverter/Charger
- Magnum ME-RC50 Remote monitor
- Renogy (RSP 200) solar panel (Mar 2023)
- Victron SmartSolar Controller (MPPT 75/15) (Mar 2023)
Navigation/Instrumentation:
- B&G H3000 Club Races Package:
- 3 Triton 20/20 mast displays.
- 2 Multi-Functional Displays (MFD) on the pedestal
- B&G Zeus 2 12" Chart Plotter
- B&G autopilot (2019)
- EMTRAK AIS Transceiver
- Standard Horizon VHF Radio
AIS Receiver
DSC
Standard Horizon RAM3 Mic in Cockpit
- Fusion Bluetooth Radio
- Interior and exterior LED lights
Mast & Rigging:
- Custom Selden carbon fiber mast (2 ft taller than standard tall aluminum mast) with double set of swept back spreaders, rod rigging and PBO back stay. Mast has a hydraulic jack. Mast painted 2017.
- Carbon Fiber Spinnaker Pole (2 ea.)
- Oversize (18.5 ft)
- Standard
- Removable Selden Carbon Fiber Bow Sprit
- Upper and Lower rudder bearing replaced (2024)
- Kelp cutter installed in the leading edge of the keel (2019)
- Harken racing mainsheet traveller track with ball bearing car adjustable under tension (2011)
- Harken and Lewmar carbon racing blocks (2011) and Spinlock ST rope clutches
- Lewmar racing genoa sheet tracks adjustable under tension.
Deck Gear:
- Lewmar 64 and 52 racing aluminum winches (special racing package)
- Hi tech halyards for Mainsail, Genoa, and both height spinnakers.
- Hi Tech Spinnaker and genoa sheets several sets.
- Spinnaker guy and sheet blocks
- Stainless steel bow and stern pulpits
- Double lifelines with gates to port and starboard
- Teak-slated helmsman seat and cockpit seats
- Teak swim platform (with shower) with stainless steel removable stern ladder
- 1500W Removable electric windlass and anchor roller
- 20 kg anchor with 80' of chain and 150' of rode and 10 kg Fortress anchor (secondary)
- 8 Mooring cleats. Flagpole, Fenders, and dock lines
- Sails:
- Main
- Quantum Fusion M6 (2021)
- 3 delivery main sails
- Jib
- #1 - North DiRaw(2017)
- Multi other size jibs
- Spinnaker
- Quantum A-1 (2022)(Needs Repair)
- North A-2 (2016)
- Doyle A-2
- Multi additional Spinnakers
- Masthead Code Zero (LRH 2024)
- Installed on a top down furler.
- Additional Sails, full inventory of spinnakers, delivery main and jibs, storm sails and more upon request- Contact Listing Broker Mike Dorgan for full details.
- Main
- PHRF:
- San Diego:
- Buoy 18, RLC 12, OWC 6
- SoCal:
- Buoy 27, RLC 24, OWC 21
- ORR
- Certification # US 43094
- General Purpose Handicap (GPH) - 541.5
- General Rating (TCF) - Offshore Offwind - 0.9583
- San Diego:
- History:
- Performance:
- Newport - Ensenada International Race
- 2015 - 198 entered, 4th overall, 2nd Class, 1st Beneteau Cup.
- 2016 - 197 entered, 31st overall, 4th Class 1st Beneteau Cup.
- 2018 - 106 entered, 44th overall, 9th Class, 1st Beneteau Cup.
- 2021 - 103 entered, 30th overall, 4th Class, 1st Beneteau Cup
- 2022 - 119 entered, 16th overall, 2nd Class, 1st Beneteau Cup
- 2024 - 152 entered, 20th overall, 4th Class, 1st Beneteau Cup
- Newport - Ensenada International Race
- Performance:
- Cruising:
- Spends the entire summers on a mooring ball at Catalina Island.
- Water maker
- Removable Solar panel
- Maintenance:
- Safe Harbor
- Stripped and sprayed bottom paint (Nov 2022)
- Replaced upper and lower rudder bearings (Jan 2024)
- Yanmar
- Oil and all filters serviced (Apr 2025)
- Water impeller replaced (Nov 2024)
- Safe Harbor
I : 57.41 ft
J : 15.78 ft
P : 56.66 ft
E : 20.44 ft
Working Sail Area : 1375.63 sq ft
The Sail Drive diesel engine is mounted in a ventilated and soundproof compartment, on a frame that is structurally part of the hull It was chosen following Bénéteau specification requirements (reliability, low vibration, reduced emission of harmful gases, compactness). It is equipped with sea water filters. The propeller (Volvo) is foldable (duckbeak) to reduce underwater resistance and thus improve boat performance. Its size is related to its horse power. The starter and control panel is located outside near the wheel. The Spinlock Flush Racing engine control lever, is built-in to the sides of the cockpit. The rotomoulded diesel fuel tank, located under the portside stern berth, has a 200 L capacity and is equipped with an electric gauge, a primary filter and a remote stop valve. Its aluminium filler hole is located on deck to the rear of the cockpit. A 12 V 110 A battery is specifically for the use of starting the engine.
The hull is made of solid GRP laminate. Hull capping and occasional reinforced areas (keel, rudder, chain plates, deck line), strengthen the overall structure. The hull is optimally protected from osmosis phenomena, thanks to the application of vinylester resin precoating. A structural solid laminate inner structural grid, is achieved through the use of biaxial and unidirectional material. It is glued to the hull and randomly laminated. Its structural function is important, since it makes it possible to pick out all the pressure and stress points (chain plate, shroud, keel, and rudder tie rods, etc.) guaranteeing even distribution and less strain on the hull. The ribes can support mechanical parts (engine, etc.) and water tanks. The structural bulkheads made of marine plywood are sealed to the hull for extra rigidity. The hull is white with a grey decoration line (Navy blue is optional).
The deck is built in sandwich (fibreglass/ balsa / GRP) for an optimal rigidity-lightness ratio. There are solid laminate reinforcement areas under the deck gear (winches, tracks, chain plates, cleats). All the working and movement areas on the deck have been given an non-skid gel coat pattern. The whole of the deck has been given a solid laminate inner lining, including the structural beams, which are sealed to the deck to give a perfect finish (integrated lighting, finish, access to deck gear fitting screws, etc.). - MOORING - 8 aluminium cleats (300 mm ) and their S/S protections are bolted to the deck/hull joint: ? 2 stem cleats. ? 4 intermediary springline cleats for greater ease of use. ? 2 stern cleats - PULPITS AND LIFELINES - A bow pulpit at 4 foot is bolted to the deck/hull joints. The stern pulpits are equipped with opening lifelines and take ensign staffs and lifebuoy supports. The boat is surrounded by double lifelines held up by 6 simple stanchions and 4 double stanchions (for small gates). These are made of stainless steel, are removable (h 650 mm) and are equipped with a double line of stainless steel lifelines with turnbuckle adjuster. They are fastened to wide stainless steel base plates, bolted through the deck/hull joint. Untreated bolted teak toe-rails, surround the deck. Two stainless steel grabrails are bolted to the top of the coachroof for leaving the cockpit. - BATHING PLATFORM AND TRANSOM - The transom has a battened teak bathing platform, with a removable articulated bathing ladder (can be stored in one of the cockpit lockers), with teak steps, a step ladder for deck access. A small cold shower head and a quay jack are attached to the transom in the standard version. The stern light is fastened to the transom.
CE Certification : A/12
Engine Hours:
-'Engine Hour Meter' reads approx. 536 hours*
-* However Engine-Hour meter stops recording, when Batteries are fully charged, so according to the Owner, estimated around 1,000 engine hours on her engine.
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
Price History
| Date | Event | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6/28/25 | Initial price | $164,500 |
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Customers praise the 2005 Beneteau First 44
7 for its impressive blend of performance and comfort. Many highlight its responsive handling and speed, making it a favorite among sailors who enjoy both racing and cruising. The spacious and well-designed interior receives positive remarks for accommodating families and groups comfortably during extended trips. Owners also appreciate the solid build quality and thoughtful layout, which contribute to a reliable and enjoyable sailing experience. Overall, the Beneteau First 44.7 is regarded as a versatile and well-crafted sailboat that delivers excellent value in its class.
The Biggest Pros and Cons
The 2005 Beneteau First 44.7 is a well-regarded performance cruiser known for its blend of speed, comfort, and handling. Here’s a breakdown of its pros and cons:
Pros
Performance-Oriented Design: The First 44.7 features a modern hull shape and a fractional rig, delivering excellent upwind and downwind sailing capabilities.
Spacious Interior: For a 44-foot boat, it offers a comfortable and well-laid-out interior, suitable for extended cruising with multiple cabins and ample storage.
Build Quality: Constructed with quality materials and solid craftsmanship typical of Beneteau, ensuring durability and reliability.
Easy Handling: The sail plan and deck layout make it manageable for short-handed crews, with efficient sail controls and responsive steering.
Good resale value: Due to its reputation and performance, it tends to hold value well in the used boat market.
Cons
Maintenance Costs: As with many performance cruisers, upkeep can be higher than average, especially with the rigging and sail inventory.
Limited Tank Capacities: Freshwater and fuel tanks are adequate but may require careful management on longer voyages.
Interior Finish: While functional and comfortable, some owners find the interior finish to be less luxurious compared to other yachts in the same size range.
Berth Size: Some berths might feel a bit tight for taller sailors.
Made For
The 2005 Beneteau First 44.7 is designed for sailing enthusiasts who seek a versatile performance cruiser. Ideal for those who want a boat that combines competitive racing capabilities with comfortable cruising amenities, it suits sailors looking for a responsive and agile vessel capable of handling coastal adventures as well as longer offshore passages. Whether you’re an experienced racer or a passionate cruiser, this model offers the perfect balance of speed, style, and comfort.
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955 Harbor Island Dr. Suite 160, San Diego, CA, 92101
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