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Experience the best sailing you’ve ever had or start building your sailing pedigree aboard one of Europe’s fastest growing sailing classes. The Seascape18 was born from singlehanded ocean racing experience and rethinked to deliver the same sensations on a tame, accessible, easy to handle sailing boat. With almost 300 boats sold worldwide and the title of European Yacht of the Year 2010, Seascape18 is as versatile as it gets, successfully combining more aspects of sailing than any other boat of its size.

Seascape18 delivers hi-tech racing-world solutions, but only in areas where fun or safety can be improved. Mast, boom, bowsprit and tiller tubes are in carbon fiber, sails are contemporary self-depowering square top shaped, made of laminate cloth. Combined with the Seascape One Design circuit, she ensures an accessible, exciting and fun platform for everyone, from family crews to Olympic sailors.

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Seascape 18

Seascape 18 is a 18 ′ 0 ″ / 5.5 m monohull sailboat designed by Samuel Manuard and built by Seascape starting in 2008.

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The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

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SEASCAPE 18: Evangelist Test Sail With Andraž Mihelin

How’s this for convenience? I get the word from SAIL HQ that I should look into test-sailing the Seascape 18 from Slovenia , recently revealed on these shores, and it turns out the new U.S. rep is based in Kittery, Maine, mere footsteps from my home. Even better, on arriving at the anointed moment last Friday at Pepperell Cove, where said rep, Toralf Strand, a tall gangly Norwegian fellow, has assembled both a Seascape 27 and 18 for test-sailing by prospective buyers and this one journalist, it turns out I’ll be sailing with Andraž Mihelin (see photo up top), one of the masterminds behind the whole Seascape concept.

Which is as follows: take the current hot monohull-racing hull-form–fine plumb bow, wide hindquarters, plus hard-chined topsides–and insert one super-simplified performance rig with simplified controls so that mere mortals can have fun knocking around and sailing fast without getting the pants scared off them.

Seascape, a new company formed by two hot-shot Mini-Transat racers (that would be Andraž and his buddy Kristian Hajnšek), introduced the 18 just over five years ago in Europe and already they’ve sold well over 300 boats and have fostered a burgeoning one-design racing scene. The 27 followed last year and looks to be just as successful. (You may recall I sailed the 27 last fall after the Annapolis show; you can read my review in the current print edition of SAIL .)

On the dock at Kittery. Note the aggressive hull form, a Volvo boat in miniature. Inside the cuddy cabin there’s a full-length double berth (plus a simple winch for controlling the centerboard). Note, too, the simple mainsheet controls: no traveler, just blocks and a bridle

Andraž loads the asymmetric spinnaker into its deck sock. It flies, of course, from the end of that long retractable bowsprit

Sailing with Andraž is like getting the gospel straight from the prophet’s mouth. He is alive with enthusiasm not only for the boats he builds, but for a whole new approach to having fun on sailboats that go fast.

“The idea behind Seascape,” he explains to me as we shoot away from the town dock in Kittery, “is to have 80 percent of the fun of sailing a Mini with 20 percent of the work.”

Convenience-wise, the boat is just that. The tubular carbon-fiber mast, which weighs just 30 pounds, is supported by a fractional headstay and two straight shrouds with no backstay or spreaders. Underwater foils consist of an easy-to-control centerboard (or swing keel, if you prefer) and two retractable rudders in cassettes. The whole boat weighs just a tad over 1,000 pounds, and it takes just a little over 20 minutes to get it from a trailer into the water fully rigged.

Andraž on the helm. He truly is a man with a mission

And yes, it is fun to sail. We’re having a blast cruising around off the mouth of the Piscataqua River while Andraž fills my head with his vision of what he wants to do with these boats. Races where you don’t call the course until you see what the conditions are, so you can be sure of making it interesting. Round-the-island time-trial competitions where skippers pick their start times. Global online “best game” competitions where skippers on boats with transponders post and compare their best 500-meter speed runs. These are all things he is already doing, or plans to do in the future.

Plus, of course, there is cruising, and he regales me with the tale of a young Austrian couple who sailed their Seascape 18 down the Danube River from Vienna all the way to the Black Sea, out the Dardanelles, through the Greek archipelago, and up to the top of the Adriatic, from whence they trailered it home to Vienna and thus completed a circumnavigation of southeastern Europe.

Cruising mode. You can easily beach the boat, plus there’s a simple tent you can pitch over the cockpit

Racing mode. More fun than humans should be allowed to have

Meanwhile, we’re seeing ideal test conditions. A building breeze that runs the gamut from 8 to 20 knots in gusts. We’re pulling the A-sail up and down–no fuss, no muss–in and out of its deck sock with its continuous halyard. Hitting over 10 knots on a hot reach. Cutting apparent wind angles well inside 25 degrees while sailing closehauled to weather. And when the gusts come through the top of the big square-headed main falls away, the mast bends a little in the right direction, and everything stays under control.

No panic. No near broaches. Nothing but the good stuff.

I’m thinking to myself: I like this guy. I believe in him. And I certainly like this boat.

Can’t wait to write it up for the comic.

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That looks like fun! Can the rudders withstand a hard beaching?

@Tom: You pull the rudders up. They are fully retractable. I don’t think they’ll stand up to a hard grounding when they’re down.

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Boat Review Date: February 2012 Author: Mike Brown Overview

In the heyday of trailer sailers, 30 and more years ago, cheapness and internal room with a few exceptions took priority over high quality and sailing ability. In particular, a minimal cockpit for a complement of say four in a tapered stern ensured a tail-dragging boat. The Seascape 18, a modern take on the concept, has the quality and ability, none of the drag, yet still at a modest price.

The Seascape actually has more in common with the current crop of sports boats than with the old trailer sailers, and, although there is nothing complicated about the rig, is capable of spirited performance. It certainly has the equipment for it: pentex working sails, carbon fibre spars, twin rudders, Ronstan roller bearing blocks, but with the cruising comfort of a furling headsail. At the same time, it really is possible to sleep on board. The fore cabin has a pair of bunks for tall people; there are no other traces of luxury, but the set-up is good enough for the occasional overnight pulled up on a beach.

Unlike a sports boat, the Seascape has a swing keel rather than a dagger board. Aside from the possible drag of the slot in the bottom there is no real difference in effectiveness; the keel, with its 125kg of ballast, is high aspect and long: lowering it increases draught from 0.15m to 1.3m. And, of course, if it hits the bottom there is no sudden stop.

  Standing rigging is as simple as it could be: forestay and single shrouds with no spreaders, supporting a mast whose light weight makes it easy to step. The reefing bowsprit is also in carbon fibre – standard equipment includes a 32sqm gennaker. The bowsprit’s forward fitting carries a hoop for the mouth of a fabric launching chute. The whole system sits on deck, preventing water intruding into the cabin.

The cockpit comprises most of the boat, and there are few obstructions in it. The natural seating position is on the coaming, supplementing the ballast keel, and hiking straps are fitted to give extra leverage to the self-propelled ballast. But as is almost inevitable for sailing reviews, wind was light and getting lighter, so the straps were not needed.

What the light wind did show was what an easily driven craft the Seascape is. With gusts varying between three and six knots the average trailer sailer would have hovered between stationary and bare steerage way. The Seascape showed perceptible acceleration, and had the crew of three tuning the mainsheet and adjusting weight fore and aft. I want to be on board in 15 to 20 knots.

The hull form is reminiscent of a 49er, with large planing areas aft and a minimum resistance bow. The significant difference is the ballasted centerboard that removes the need for trapeze athletics. It struck me that this could be the boat for the owner, a decade or two along, who used to sail something like a Hobie 18 on the ocean. I found I was describing myself, the sort of owner who might cruise the coast inshore, or sail out to Garden Island on the easterly and return on the sea breeze.

It could be a club racing boat or a powerboat substitute. It does not have to be a purist’s yacht that stops when the wind does; an optional bracket takes an outboard motor. This is such an easily driven boat that the smallest of motors would do the job.

The price for this European yacht of the year in 2010 (it is built in Slovenia) is AUD $33,000, to which you need to add the price of a trailer. It works out at a lot of fun per dollar.

Price                            AUD $33,000 (without trailer)

Length overall               5.50m

Beam                           2.40m

Hull weight                   450kg

Sail area                      23sqm

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Seascape 18 for sale, lying Dartmouth Devon. The Seascape 18 is a fast one-design planing sport boat; exiting but safe and easy to sail, this example is from 2010 the same year she was awarded ‘European Yacht of the Year'. You may recognise her as the new Beneteau First 18 SE. This example comes on a trailer and has neve been antifouled having been stored on a Versadoc when on the water, which is available by separate negotiation. 

Seasccape 18 ‘Nikita’ GBR 132,  2010

The Seascape 18 is a fast one-design planing sport boat;  exciting but safe and easy to sail.  The rig is a 7/8 sloop with a square-topped main.  The hull is sandwich foam fibreglass polyester and as such is unsinkable.  The spars are all carbon fibre, including the bowsprit which launches and retracts simply with the spinnaker from a deck sock.

The Seascape 18 was a radical new design from Slovenia launched in 2008 and continued to be sold under this name until 2018, being awarded ‘European Yacht of the Year’ in 2010.  More recently the identical one-design specification has been re-branded as the Beneteau First 18 SE.  It is widely raced and cruised across Europe and the UK.

The Seascape readily planes at over 10 knots, driven downwind by its large asymmetric spinnaker and is as nimble as a dinghy.  The jib is quickly deployed on a furler.  Despite its racing credentials and mini-Transat long-distance heritage, the Seascape will double as a fun family weekend camping/ cruiser, sometimes with a tent over the cockpit.  Stability offshore in a strong breeze comes from the very wide beam and heavily ballasted lifting keel.

Below deck there are two full length berths.  With the fully lifting keel and two liftable transom-hung rudders, shallow waters are easily navigable and indeed the boat can be brought up on to the beach.  There is a huge cockpit accommodating up to four crew although it is normally raced with two or three and can even be single-handed.

It is easy to trail, rig  and launch, has low running costs and is easy to maintain.

This boat, ‘Nikita’ has been successfully raced at Dartmouth Regattas and won the French GPEN Open Championship in 2019.  It has also been a great boat to train aspiring teenagers moving up from dinghies on inland waters to offshore racing.

The boat comes with a roller trailer that recently had a new modern aluminium axle and suspension fitted, that has not been in sea water – she is easily hoisted in and out from either the eye on the centreboard casing or in slings.

‘Nikita’ is fully equipped to the one-design racing specification.  Extras include a 2 hp 2-stroke outboard, jib forestay cover, rudder bag, mast cover for towing, Windex, anchor, warps, fenders bucket and paddle to class requirements.

‘Nikita’ has two full sets of sails: a fairly well-used ‘training’ set and the racing set used for only regattas.

White GRP hull, deck and superstructure. Lifting Keel Tiller steering.

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7/8 Sloop. Stainless steel standing rigging.  Roller Furling JIB . Carbon fibre Spars  Carbon Fibre Spinnaker Pole

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• Page 1 Users Manual 16.11.2011...
• Page 3 WARNINGS! Make sure your 1:2 main hallyard is not tangled before hoisting the mainsail. In this case you may experience problems while taking the mainsail down. If the hallyard is wrapped several times you will not be able to release it and recover the mainsail. After use take your rudder blades out of the water and dry them.
• Page 4 1. Introduction Congratulations with your new Seascape 18. We hope you are going to enjoy sailing her as much as we enjoyed in her creation. Although she is very simple in concept, we believe that proces of discovering her potentials will give you plenty of satisfaction and fun for many years.

Page 5: General Information

Page 6: recommendations and information for proper operation, page 7: tools needed.

• Page 8 2.3. Supplied equipement All equipement supplied with your Seascape is Racing grade. Please take time to carefully read this instructions and allow yourself 3-4 hours for first assembly of your boat. All consecutive assemblies are considerably quicker and should after some practice take you 30-60 minutes. Please note that rope colours and diameters and block types can change without notice.
• Page 9 2.3.2. Jib parts: From left to right and top to bottom: Jib furler with 2 shackles, adjustement ladder and spring pin, top jib furler, trapeze block for jib cunningham with 2mm dyneema, jib cunningham line, jib hallyard, jib furling line, two 30mm blocks for jib sheet, composite shackle, jib sheet. 2.3.3.
• Page 10 2.3.4. Sails: From left to right: jib (pentex), Gennaker (nylon), main+ battens (pentex). 2.3.5. Standing rigging: Forestay and shrouds with 2 trunbuckles and 4 smart pins. 2.3.6. Footstraps: From left to right: elastic rope, 2 carbon support tubes, 6 dyneema ropes, 2 footstraps.

Page 11: Stepping The Mast

• Page 12 Start by assembling the shrouds. Insert the pin and secure it with the safety splice. When you finish protect it with the electric tape. On the bottom part of the shrouds attach turnbuckles to the chainplates as shown on the next photos.
• Page 13 Lead hallyards trough top fittings only. You’ll organize them when the mast is raised. Tie a knot on the bottom to prevent them from falling trough top blocks. You begin with jib halyard: Mainsail hallyard is next. It has 2:1 purchase so later you will need a shackle to attach it to the head of the mainsail: Lead spinnaker hallyard trough the top block end secure the loose ends with a knot.
• Page 14 Before raising make shure all the hallyards and shrouds are set correctly and that they are not tangled or caught under the trailer. Operation can be done by single person if you use support instead of the person standing in the back of the boat. It is much easier to do it by two people. Remove the pin from the mast step and tape the swiveling cleats for hallyards to prevent them catching between the mast and the coachroof when raising the mast: Then you remove the mast from its support and move it towards the back of the boat:...
• Page 15 You raise the mast to its final position. Make sure that the shrouds and hallyards are not caught on the trailer or other gear.
• Page 16 Attach the forestay to the ladder to achieve the desired rake of the mast while one person is supporting the mast. Then tension the shrouds using 6 and 13mm keys and insert smartpins.
• Page 17 2.4. Boom You start with outhaul which you guide trough the boom tube as shown: Attach boom to the goosneck...
• Page 18 Vang (kicker): Attach the double block on the mast foot and lead the composite shackle trough the holes. The system suplied is 1:6 purchase. In stronger wind (20-25+ knots) this system allowes significant force to be put to the boom so be advised that you can damage the boom if you overtension the vang in this conditions.
• Page 19 Attach aft main sheet blocks like shown on the photo: Assemble A-frame for the Main sheet as expalained on photo:...
• Page 20 Run mainsheet trough the blocks (make shure the ratched in the middle of the cockpit is turned corectly).
• Page 21 2.5. Jib You attach two 30mm block to the clew using a composite schakle. On the photo you see one of the possible ways to do so. Then you attach the tack on the forestay ladder using a small shackle. Tie both ends of the hallyard on the head of the jib.
• Page 22 Zip first 15cm of the luff and run the remaining halyard trough the pocket. Pull on the part of the hallyard that hoists the sail and zip the luff as the sail is being hoisted.
• Page 23 Make a half knot on the halyard and use jib cunningham to tension the luff. Put the remaining halyard and the cunningham line in the zip pocket and zip the luff all the way. You run the sheet as it is shown on the photo. the end is tied on the attachment point for 40mm blocks.
• Page 24 2.4. Main Unroll the main on a flat surface you first swept and make sure it doesn’t have sharp objets that could damage the sail. Unpack the battens and place them on the main in the right order. Slide the battens all the way into the pockets and put them under tension. Note that different sails use different systems to tension the battens.
• Page 25 Use the big shackle to attach 1:2 halyard on the head. Make sure that halyard is not wraped or tangled before hoisting. Clew is fixed on the boom with the velcro strap and outhaul is fixed in the way shown on the photo giving 1:2 transmision.
• Page 26 Tack is also fixed to the mast using the velcro strap. 1:6 Cuningham control is used to control the mast bend and main camber. After all 3 points of the main are fixed you can hoist the sail.
• Page 27 2.6. Gennaker Start by running a tail of the Gennaker hallyard trough a 20mm block you fixed on the attachment point aft of the chanplate. Then you run it trough the snuffer bag. It is easier to do so while the bag is not attached.
• Page 28 Attach snuffer bag to the snuffer ring using a 2-3mm dyneema line. Aft part of the snuffer is attached to the same attachemnt point as 20mm block. Put it under medium tension.
• Page 29 Use attachment points on the bag to secure it from sagging if the gennaker gets wet due to the waves or rain. Note that bags have different number of attachment points. Always use all of them. Continue by attaching gennaker blocks and running the sheets trough them. Not that silver ones have ratchet action and have to be turned the right way - so that they hold the sheet in direction towards the gennaker and release it towards the trimmer.
• Page 30 Use composite shackle to secure the tack. Make sure gennaker is oreinted correctly. Salimakers logo and color of the luff (green) helps you identifying that. Attach hallyard to the head using bowline knot. You can find it since luff (green) and leech (red) join in this point.
• Page 31 Run the retriver line (end of the gennaker halyard) from the snuffer trough the bottom patch on the gennaker and fix it to the top one with a knot. Note that patches can be on one or the other side of the gennaker depending on the model. Attach sheets to the clew.
• Page 32 After that slowly snuff the gennaker. Make sure you don’t catch it on the trailer or other sharp edges when you do it on the land. Also note that with a new boat things will go a little bit harder. Applying dry lubricant on the bag and the snuffer ring helps a bit.
• Page 33 2.7 Footstraps Fix the central part of the footstrap with the dyneema line. Note that footstrap is not symetrical - measuring from the middle to the end one part is longer than the other so make sure footstrap is oriented corectly before you fix the center. Use carbon tube to raise the point to allow easier hooking with your feet.
• Page 34 3. Using the Seascape 18 3.1. Protecting the sails On the bow there are several pointy things that can tear gennaker if not properly protected. Use the electrical or self vulcanizing tape to protect all the sharp objects in the way of the gennaker.
• Page 35 After you lowered the keel to working (down) position, apply the safety pin which prevents the keel from folding in case of a capsize. Pin is designed to break in case of grounding but holds the keel in place if the worst happen.

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Wide, flat and stable hull; ballasted swinging keel; gennaker snuffer system; furling jib and minimised deck controls all enable an easy-to-handle and exciting planing and sailing experience. Being easily trailable and dismantled, she would fulfil racing ambitions in international one-design class as well as adventurous sea-camping.

NAVAL ARCHITECT : Samuel Manuard INTERIOR DESIGN : EP Studio Concept & R&D : Seascape

WHY FIRST 18 SE ?

EASY HANDLING

She can be easily  sailed by a crew from 1 to 3 persons thanks to the large and clean cockpit, the furling jib, the gennaker snuffer system, high boom and a mast without a backstay, which allows for a bigger square-top mainsail.

The One Design racing calendar comprises of fully crewed windward-leeward races to adventurous long-distance double-handed or solo challenges. Whichever you choose, you can count on the friendly community of like-minded sailors.

GO ANYWHERE

A retractable keel, removable rudders blades and a light carbon mast make First 18 SE truly trailable and slip-launchable, which will enable you to discover new places, attend international events and meet new sailors.

First 18 SE is one of the safest in her category. Insumbersibility chambers make her unsinkable, a swinging keel prevents structural damage in case of grounding and twin rudders give you complete control for safe downwind planing.

SAILING EXPERIENCE

First 18 SE delivers a dinghy-like sailing experience but on a more stable and safer platform, thanks to the wide and flat hull shape and deep-ballasted swinging keel. Twin rudders ensure complete control even when planing at double-digit speeds. Boat handling and deck controls are simplified as much as possible for the best sailing experience. The jib is furling, the gennaker is easily operated with a snuffer system and a carbon mast without a backstay supports the powerful square-top mainsail, which ensures fast sailing even in light wind conditions. Thanks to its ergonomic and spacious open cockpit, the boat can be easily sailed solo or with 2 or even up to 3 crew members.

On challenging regattas or joyful day sailings, you'll always have a chance to explore, learn and grow with the boat's potential.

LIVING ONBOARD

Despite being small, First 18 SE cabin can still accommodate up to two adults in a sea-camping manner. Front V-berth is decently sized for 5,55 m boat and with smart crew bags for personal belongings and technical storage under the cockpit spacious enough for all the technical equipment. Traditional comfort might be limited, but she can get you into the most unreachable places you've never discovered before and connect you with the elements like no other boat. Large open cockpit makes her an ideal family sea camping platform and offers direct access to the sea in cruising mode. Fully retractable swinging keel and removable rudder blades will give you access to the shallowest bays you've missed so far.

International Owners Community and events calendar enable owners to challenge themselves on long-distance. One Design challenges across the continent in a great company of supportive, like-minded sailors.

Length Overall

Beam overall

Lightship Displacement

1102,31 lbs

Air Draught Max

Draught Min

Draught Max

CE Certification

First 18 SE European Championship

We are calling on all Seascape / First 18SE owners for an annual gathering of the clans.

The thinking behind a modern sailing event – SE challenge's roots

It was almost dark when I stepped from the ever-balancing hull of my Seascape 18 onto the dock in Svendborg. To my surprise, the familiar cocktail of relief, elation, sadness, joy, and overwhelming sensation of accomplishment started to kick in.

Big boats bring the glory, but small boats make the sailors

Beneteau services.

With teams for sea trials, financing, customization, events, an after-sales service, and a network of dealers worldwide, BENETEAU delivers the help and expertise every boat owner needs throughout his boating life maintaining an enduring customer relationship.

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