Beneteau Oceanis 40 sailing yacht

The Beneteau Oceanis 40 is a cruising yacht providing spacious and comfortable accommodation for a family or group of 6 adults. Accommodation is in three cabins providing six permanent berths with two ‘heads’, with the forepeak cabin having the forward heads en-suite. The main cabin can also provide additional berths.

At 40’ the Oceanis 40 is a spacious three-cabin yacht and consequently provides a lot of internal space. She can be sailed by a couple, although being larger with more sail area a larger crew allows work to be shared and gives more hands when mooring.

Sailing

The Beneteau Oceanis 40 can be managed by a crew of two although a larger crew of three or four means mooring, raising and lowering sails and other tasks can be shared to make easier work. She sails well and benefits from enormous internal space providing comfortable yet entertaining, safe and stable sailing.

Equipment

The Greek Sails Beneteau Oceanis 40 yachts are equipped with wheel steering, roller furling genoa and a semi-battened slab reefing mainsail with lazy jacks & sail bag. The mainsail uses single-line reefing with reefs 1 & 2 rigged.

There is an inflatable dinghy with outboard to help you get ashore if you anchor-off or simply to allow you to explore.

Instrumentation includes twin binnacle compasses and Raymarine ST60 tridata in the cockpit and a GPS, DSC VHF radio & EPIRB by the chart table. Charts and pilot guides are provided.

The yacht is equipped CD/radio player with speakers in the main cabin and external speakers in the cockpit, allowing you to listen to music as you sail.

Accommodation

The Beneteau Oceanis 40 offers a large main saloon, three cabins and two toilet/shower rooms (‘heads’ in sailing talk), both with hot water.

Each cabin has a double berth giving six berths plus the saloon seats are convertible to berths. Each cabin has a hanging wardrobe. Due to her size, there is a general feeling of space & light in the Beneteau Oceanis 40 making her good for larger groups.

The galley includes a double sink, top-entry fridge, twin-burner cooker with oven and plenty of storage both behind the worktop & cooker and below the sinks.

Outside the cockpit has teak lazerette seats with bimini and external loudspeakers connected to the CD/radio. The Beneteau Oceanis 40 is equipped with twin wheels and a generous cockpit table.

Internal layout

The Beneteau Oceanis 40 provides a main-cabin heads to starboard with an en-suite heads also to starboard in the forward cabin. The forepeak cabin includes a hatch onto the foredeck and there are two spacious rear cabins in the stern.

There is a chart table to port at the bottom of the companionway with control panel, GPS, DSC VHF radio, EPIRB and CD/radio player.

Key information

Please note that photographs used on this page may not necessarily be of Greek Sails flotilla & charter yachts and actual fittings and specification may differ.

Information downloads

For more detailed information about our Beneteau Oceanis 40 yachts you can download the following supplementary documents:

Technical specification for the Beneteau Oceanis 40

Yacht inventory & suggested packing list