Beneteau First 235 Forums

Did you ever hear about that DC panel? I'm down to 5 circuits on mine and a new panel is pretty clearly going to have to be part of this year's budget. Of course, it wouldn't be too hard to make one ...

Maybe the question is "what could you get fixed or upgraded on that boat for another ten to fifteen thousand?" You could do get some goodies with that much money and keep telling yourself t ...

I like the tiller. There is something fun about playing Captain Ahab with a wheel, but the 285 is not such a big boat that you can't enjoy the feel that only comes with a tiller.

When I get my H ...

When we were looking at 285's I thought I wanted the wheel, but we ended up with a tiller model and there are a lot of advantages--the biggest one being that you get about twice the cockpit space. Ju ...

I wonder how long you could run the heater with the standard propane bottle? I'm guessing you have 10-15 hours running the stove and/or oven, so a full bottle would probably keep you snug for a weeke ...

It looks like Trekka will be heading back to South Carolina--at about the right time too. Minnesota weather is great right now, but will turn cranky all too soon.

I posted on Craigslist and BeneteauOwners.com. I got a lot of responses, but my guess is that way out here in the boonies is not the first place people think about buying a sailboat. This is party b ...

It's coming to the end of the sailing season and soon I'll have to think about storing two boats for the winter. So the time to make a late-season offer on a beautiful 235 is right now. Trekka is s ...

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Trekka is finally out of storage, though we got a full 10 inches of snow on Saturday. This is truly devilish weather we're having this spring. But I should have an ad up in the next few days on Boat ...

I agree with Mike about the price. For 29,000 this boat better be perfect. I got my boat for 22k and by my thinking that gives me 7,000 dollars to spend on goodies. Of course, I'm probably not goin ...

Why would anyone ever stop checking in with this nuthouse? Best entertainment I've got as well as a lot of great advice from great people. I'm mostly a lurker, but I appreciate what goes on here.

The Nissan is a 2000 Frontier SE crew cab 4x4 with a short bed. It has 92000 miles on it, but 91000 came in the first five years before I bought it. I don't know if that's good or bad, but it's run ...

I can't say I like writing this, but just this morning I sent out the deposit on a Beneteau First 285. Yep, we're following in Mike's wake. Trekka is a great little boat, but the big factor for us i ...