Beneteau Oceanis 351

Construction & Dimensions

Construction

• GRP hull and superstructure
• Blue Awlgrip hull finish, professionally applied 2014
• Fin keel with wing
• Spade rudder
• Extended hull moulding around shaft installation
• Shaft-drive propulsion
• Teak laid cockpit seating and sole areas
• Stainless steel pulpit, pushpit and guardrails

Principal Dimensions

• LOA: 10.62m / 34ft 10in
• LWL: 9.27m / 30ft 5in
• Beam: 3.81m / 12ft 6in
• Maximum draft: 1.52m / 5ft 0in
• Displacement: 5,300kg
• Ballast: 1,700kg

Engine & Propulsion

• Volvo Penta MD2030
• Three-cylinder marine diesel engine
• 29hp
• Fresh-water cooled
• Shaft drive
• Three-bladed bronze propeller
• Ambassador rope cutter
• Approximately 7-knot cruising speed
• Approximately 8-knot maximum speed
• Engine installation accessible beneath companionway

2024 Mechanical & Stern Gear Work

March 2024:

• Stern tube water-feed nipple renewed
• Volvo shaft seal renewed
• Cutless bearing renewed
• Ambassador rope cutter serviced
• Heat exchanger removed/cleaned
• Bilge pumps serviced
• Fuel tank emptied and internally cleaned
• Fresh fuel added following tank cleaning
• Engine fuel lines attended to
• New engine impeller
• Coolant renewed

April 2024:

• New engine thermostat

Engine Controls

• Volvo Penta engine instrumentation
• Volvo engine control panel fitted January 2025

Electrical & Charging Systems

• 12V DC domestic electrical system
• 240V shore power system
• Alternator charging
• Shore power battery charging
• Three internal 240V outlets with European sockets
• Two domestic batteries
• One engine-start battery
• All three batteries replaced with AGM units, April 2024
• Victron Smart battery charger
• 100W solar charging installation
• Electrical distribution panel at navigation station

Tankage & Plumbing

Fuel

• 100-litre diesel tank
• Located aft of engine
• Tank emptied, cleaned and refuelled March 2024

Fresh Water

• Total freshwater capacity approximately 400 litres
• Two tanks
• One beneath forward berth
• One beneath aft berth
• Pressurised hot and cold water system

Hot Water

• Approximately 25-litre calorifier
• Located beneath saloon seating

Waste System

The sanitation system was substantially redesigned in March 2024.

• Jabsco manual marine toilet
• Tek-Tanks 40-litre vertical waste holding tank
• Tek-Tanks polyethylene tank
• Tank manufactured December 2023
• Dedicated sanitation hose installation
• Redesigned waste plumbing and discharge arrangement
• Separate shower area within heads compartment

Rig & Sails

Spars & Standing Rigging

• Aluminium mast
• Conventional masthead cruising rig
• Complete standing rigging renewed June 2024
• Mast removed for standing-rigging replacement
• Harken Ocean Unit 1 headsail furling system fitted June 2024
• New Windex fitted June 2024
• LED navigation lights fitted during mast work, June 2024
• Running rigging previously renewed in 2019
• Lines led aft to cockpit for short-handed operation
• Genoa tracks mounted on coachroof

Sails

• Solo Sails mainsail
• Fully battened mainsail
• Three slab reefs
• Lazy jack system
• Stack-pack mainsail cover
• Furling genoa
• Traditional slab-reefing arrangement rather than in-mast furling

Deck & Cockpit

• Large aft cockpit
• Wheel steering
• Stainless steel steering wheel
• Binnacle-mounted compass
• Drop-leaf cockpit table with internal storage
• Large starboard cockpit locker extending deep into bilge area
• Shallower port cockpit locker
• Drop-down helm seat providing access to bathing platform
• Stainless steel folding bathing ladder
• Cockpit shower
• Stainless steel outboard lifting davit
• Pushpit-mounted outboard bracket
• Large sprayhood with grab rail
• Teak cockpit seating and sole sections
• Sail controls led aft for cockpit operation
• Two Lewmar self-tailing halyard/genoa sheet winches beneath sprayhood
• Ground Tackle
  • 20kg Bruce anchor
  • 30m of 10mm chain
  • Approximately 30m additional rope rode
  • Electric anchor windlass
  • Replacement windlass control switches
  • Bow anchor roller
  • Chain locker

Navigation & Electronics

• 2025 Raymarine Installation
  • Raymarine 9-inch multifunction chartplotter
  • Colour cartography and GPS navigation
  • Raymarine autopilot control head
  • Autopilot computer
  • Autopilot ram seal renewed
  • Raymarine combined depth and speed/log instrument
  • Raymarine Smart remote controller
  • AIS transmit and receive system

Accommodation

• Two private double cabins
• Additional saloon berth
• Accommodation for approximately five
• Large forward double cabin
• Particularly spacious aft double cabin
• Hanging lockers and dedicated storage in both cabins
• Large saloon
• U-shaped/settee seating arrangement
• Saloon dining table
• Extensive under-seat storage
• Timber interior joinery
• Numerous lockers and cupboards
• Opening deck hatches and portlights
• Portlights replaced March 2024
• Carpeting fitted through saloon and galley (not fitted)
• Dedicated navigation station
• Chart table
• Electrical distribution and navigation equipment at chart table
• Eberspächer diesel heating throughout

Galley

• Large linear galley arrangement
• Double stainless steel sink
• Pressurised hot and cold water
• Filtered galley water supply
• Techimpex oven
• Two-burner gas hob
• Techimpex cooker installed with new gas pipework in 2023
• Approximately 200-litre refrigerator
• Internal ice box
• Extensive worktop space
• Overhead cupboards
• Under-counter cabinetry
• General galley storage
• Beneteau-branded crockery and cutlery inventory
• New galley carpeting

Heads & Shower

One of the more useful recent upgrades aboard Camelot is the redesigned sanitation installation.

• Large heads compartment
• Jabsco manual marine toilet
• 40-litre Tek-Tanks waste holding tank
• Sanitation system redesigned March 2024
• Separate shower compartment
• Hand basin
• Hot and cold pressurised water
• Flexible shower head
• Wet-storage locker
• Mirror
• Storage cabinetry
• Opening portlight
• Dedicated shower area separated from the toilet space

Heating

• Eberspächer diesel-fired warm-air heating system
• Four cabin outlets
• Heating distributed throughout accommodation

Safety

Safety Equipment

• Horseshoe lifebuoy
• Dan buoy
• Rescue sling
• Bilge pumping arrangements