Beneteau First 310

Awaiting preparation - Mr Blue Sky is booked in for a deep clean. Additional photographs will be taken of her deck and cockpit and loaded to the advert on completion along with more informaiton on maintenance and upgrades.

The Beneteau First 310 is a sleek performance orientated cruiser racer based on the Beneteau Figaro hull form and was developed in keeping with the FIRST traditions – “style, performance and practicality”.

Mr Blue Sky has been in the local area most of her life with her care being predominantly undertaken by Fox’s Marina.

She is a well-appointed and well thought out boat as follows:

Below: from forward: 

• Fore cabin with vee berth and locker. Opening deck hatch above. 
• Saloon: with settee berth to port & stbd. Stylish fixed saloon table with folding leaves and bottle storage.  
• Chart table aft facing to stbd with electrical panel and provision for instruments, wet locker aft. 
• Galley: aft to port, s/s sink with cold water supply, insulated cool box, ENO gimballed gas cooker with two burners and oven, assorted storage. 
• Heads: aft to stbd, with washbasin and sea toilet. 
• Aft cabin: to port with double berth and hanging locker.
• 1.80m headroom aft, 
• 1.70m headroom forward.  
• Teak internal joinery. 
• Fusion sound system with internal & external speakers. 
• Pressurised cold-water system. 
• I x opening deck hatch. 
• 7 x opening coach roof ports
• Blue velour upholstery and matching curtains

On deck

• Stainless steel pulpit, 
• Split push pit, 
• Stanchions and guard wires. 
• Draining anchor locker. 
• Single bow roller, anchor and chain. 
• Bow & stern mooring cleats. 
• Alloy toe rail. 
• Mooring warps & fenders. 
• Genoa tracks with adjustable cars. 
• Coach roof grab handles. 
• Blue folding sprayhood and cockpit dodgers. 
• Mainsheet traveller with adjustable car. 
• Deep cave locker to stbd, 
• Gas locker. 
• Alloy tiller with tiller extension. 
• Teak quarter seats 

Equipment

• 2 x Plastimo bulkhead compass.
• Navman Tracker 5600 GPS Plotter 
• NKE speed/depth 
• NKE windspeed/direction 
• Icom M59 VHF radio
• Hawk Windex masthead aerial
• Clock and barometer

Sails, Mast and Rigging

• 9/10ths fractional sloop rig.  
• ZSpar white sprayed alloy mast with single swept spreaders and slab reefed boom.
• Sprung kicker. 
• Furlex furling headsail. 
• Mast stowed spinnaker pole. 
• 1 x 19 s/s standing rigging with split adjustable backstay, 
• Terylene running rigging led aft to 8 x Spinlock clutches.
• 2 x Lewmar 30 self-tailing Genoa winches
• 2 x Lewmar 30 self-tailing halyard/reefing winches
• Furling No 1 Genoa 
• Spinnaker 
• Blue stack pack type mainsail cover with lazy jacks

Engine and Mechanicals

• Volvo MD2020 three-cylinder 19hp diesel with closed circuit cooling and wet exhaust.  
• Reversing reduction gearbox with shaft driven a two bladed folding propeller. 
• Single lever engine controls.

Safety equipment

• Manual bilge pump 
• Electric bilge pump 
• Lifebuoy 
• Harness point

Tanks

• Water - 170 litres in rigid tank
• Diesel - 65 Litres in rigid tank

Construction

• Blue sprayed GRP hull with stern gate and bathing platform. 
• Cast iron low centre of gravity fin keel. 
• Semi balanced spade rudder with tiller steering. 
• White GRP deck, superstructure and self-draining aft cockpit. 
• Moulded non-slip surfaces. 
• GRP internal structural moulding with Teak internal joinery.

Summary of Upgrades 

2000 - Furlex furling headsail system fitted.

2002 –New Volvo MD202 Diesel engine

2002 - NKE speed/depth & NKE windspeed/direction 

2002 - Furling No 1 Genoa – Dolphin Sails 

2003 - Epoxied beneath waterline as preventative measure.
2003 - Hull topsides re-sprayed.
2003 - Mast re-sprayed.

2004 - Standing Rigging (ex. Backstays)

2006 - Navman Tracker 5600 GPS Plotter– with UK cartridge

2016 - Hull respray

2025 - All rudder bearings