Beneteau Oceanis 411 – Sailing yacht
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Beneteau Oceanis 411

The Oceanis 411 is an aft-cockpit cruising yacht of about 12.7 m, designed by Groupe Finot and built by Beneteau from 1997 (as the 1998 model) to about 2004; it was sold as Oceanis 411 and Oceanis Clipper 411, and in North America as the Beneteau 411, built by Beneteau USA in Marion, South Carolina. It has a solid GRP hull with a bonded inner moulding, a balsa-cored deck, a cast-iron bulb keel, a single wheel and a diesel on a conventional shaft, with two, three or four cabins and two heads; Beneteau had built more than 1200 by the end of 2001. Late in the run came the Performance and Celebration limited editions of 2002, with a taller mast and a Volvo Penta D2-55, and in the US the 411 Limited package of 2003; the successor is the Oceanis Clipper 423. The Oceanis 41.1 built from 2016 is a different boat, but listings often write it as “411” too, so check the year.

Manuals & documents

The links go to Beneteau’s own documents — some as archived copies of pages the maker has since taken down. We host no manuals or drawings.

Equipment & its manuals

Standard equipment as the builder’s documents list it. Boats were ordered with options and refitted since — check what is actually aboard.

ItemModelManual / pageNote
EngineVolvo / Yanmar1,2,3European boats (Oceanis 411 and Oceanis Clipper 411): Beneteau’s equipment lists name only the two makes and refer to the price list, which is not online; type and power not stated—Not from the builder: owners and brokers usually report a Volvo Penta MD22 or a Yanmar 4JH2E or 4JH3E. Read the engine plate before you order parts. The engine sits in a foam-insulated compartment under the hinged two-part companionway and drives a conventional shaft.
EngineVolvo Penta D2-554,5,6Oceanis 411 Performance and Oceanis 411 Celebration, limited editions of 2002Volvo Penta D2-55 Parts & service pageWith a three-blade folding propeller.
EngineWesterbeke 42B47North American Beneteau 411, equipment list © 1998 (online until 2000): 42 hpWesterbeke operators manual 35B Three, 38B Four, 42B Four (publication 037435, rev. 3, March 2018)40 US gal aluminium fuel tank, raw-water filter and Racor fuel/water separator; engine panel on the cockpit table.
EngineWesterbeke 44A48,9North American Beneteau 411: 40 hp standard on the spec sheet rev. August 2002; the 2003 list says ‘Westerbeke 40hp’Westerbeke operators manual 44A, 44B, 44C Four and 35C, 35D Three (publication 044180, rev. 4, April 2015)ZF gearbox 2.47:1, 30 mm shaft, 18 × 10 in right-hand three-blade propeller, 50 A alternator. The linked manual covers the 44A Four.
EngineYanmar 56 HP8,10North American boats: option on the spec sheet rev. August 2002; part of the 2003 ‘411 Limited’ package—Beneteau gives only the make and the power. Not from the builder: in Yanmar’s range of those years, 56 hp fits the 4JH3E; check the engine plate before you order parts.
GearboxZF8North American boats with the Westerbeke 44A4 (spec sheet rev. August 2002): reduction 2.47:1, gearbox type not named; the European lists name no gearbox—
Propeller—1,4,8Fixed three-blade propeller on a stainless shaft as standard (US spec sheet: 18 × 10 in, right-hand, 30 mm shaft); three-blade folding propeller on the Performance and Celebration editions; makes not named—Shaft drive, not a saildrive: the shaft runs in a protective skeg moulded into the hull.
WinchesLewmar 48 CSTO × 2 · 30 CSTO × 21,4European boats (equipment list of September 2001): the 48 CSTO on the genoa sheets, the 30 CSTO on the coachroofLewmar Ocean & EVO winches Parts & service pageSelf-tailing; six Spinlock clutches on the coachroof. The Celebration’s optional Exclusive pack adds an electric Lewmar 40 ESTO on the port side.
WinchesLewmar 48 CSTO × 2 · 40 CSTO × 27,9,8North American Beneteau 411 (lists of 1998 and 2003, spec sheet 2002): the 48 CSTO on the cockpit coaming for the genoa sheets, the 40 CSTO for halyards and control linesLewmar Ocean & EVO winches Parts & service page
Winches54 CST × 2 · 44 CST × 210,92003 ‘411 Limited’ package (North America): 54 CST primaries, one 44 CST manoeuvring and one 44 CST halyard winchLewmar Ocean & EVO winches Parts & service pageBeneteau writes only ‘54cst’ and ‘44cst’, without the make; the standard winches of the US boats are Lewmar.
Windlass800 W4,1,11European boats: electric up/down windlass, standard Clipper equipment; make not named—Semi-recessed under a moulded cover in a self-draining anchor locker; welded stainless stemhead fitting with two rollers.
AnchorBritanny 16 kg4,1European boats: 16 kg Britanny anchor with 25 m of chain and 38 m of rope—
Windlass— · Horizon Express 1000 W9,7,10North American boats: manual windlass standard (2003 list), electric windlass optional (1998 and 2003 lists), makes not named · 2003 ‘411 Limited’ package: Horizon Express 1000 W—Beneteau does not name the maker of the Horizon Express.
Mast & rigging— · Z Spar1,11,4,8,9Europe: deck-stepped anodised aluminium mast with two sets of swept spreaders, double backstay and rigid kicker, make not named; the Performance and Celebration mast is 0.80 m taller · North America: Z Spar in-mast furling mast standard, classic mast with full-batten mainsail optional—
Furler— · Profurl1,7,9,8Europe: genoa furler with the drum above deck, make not named · North America: Profurl genoa furler with the drum above deck, model not named—
Sails— · Incidence · Neil Pryde1,4,5,8Europe: semi-full-batten mainsail with lazy-jacks and integral sail bag, 145 % roller genoa, sailmaker not named · Performance and Celebration: Incidence ‘offshore’ sails with a full-batten main on ball-bearing cars, Dyneema halyards and an easy bag · North America: Neil Pryde, in-mast furling main and 140 % genoa—
SteeringØ 1000 mm1,11,7,9Single leather-covered stainless wheel on the cockpit-table pedestal (US lists: 42 in); the US lists add an emergency tiller, and the 1998 list calls the rudder a spade rudder—The pedestal console carries the compass, the engine panel and the throttle. Rudder stock: epoxy composite (Europe), epoxy/glass (1998 US list), carbon-fibre composite (2003 US list).
AutopilotRaymarine ST6001+4,9Oceanis 411 Celebration (2002): standard in its Raymarine pack (brochure: ‘ST6001+ LS 40’); the US lists offer an autopilot as an option without naming itRaymarine ST6001+ operating instructions (81190-1, German)Beneteau does not explain ‘LS 40’, so the drive unit is not identified. Raymarine’s library has the ST6001+ handbook only in German.
InstrumentsRaymarine ST60 Tridata4,9Celebration (2002): ST60 log, speed and depth in the Raymarine pack · North American cruising package, 2003 list: ‘Raytheon ST60 Tridata’Raymarine ST60 Tridata owner’s handbook (81040-4)
InstrumentsRaymarine ST60 Wind4,9Celebration (2002): ST60 wind instrument in the Raymarine pack · North American cruising package, 2003 list: ‘Raytheon ST60 Wind’Raymarine ST60 Wind and Close-Hauled Wind owner’s handbook (81105-4)
InstrumentsAutohelm ST50 Plus Tridata · ST50 Plus Wind7North American ‘sail-away cruising package’, 1998 list, installed at delivery—No handbook linked here; Raymarine keeps the ST50 handbooks in its online manuals library among the retired instruments.
ChartplotterRaymarine Raychart 5304Celebration (2002): GPS/plotter in the Raymarine pack—Raymarine’s manuals library has no Raychart 530 handbook. The US packages contain no chart plotter.
VHFStandard Horizon Novatt RAM · Standard Intrepid7,9North American cruising package: Standard Horizon Novatt RAM with antenna (1998 list), Standard Intrepid with antenna (2003 list)—
Hatches & portsLewmar Coastline T 20 · T 30 · T 541,2,9European list of 2001: 2 × T 20 over the aft cabins, 2 × T 30 over the saloon and 2 × T 30 in the forecabin, 1 × T 54 in the forward heads; Lewmar opening portholes 257 × 109, 300 × 120 and 584 × 123 mm · US lists: Lewmar size 20, 30 and 54 hatches, size 0, 1 and 4 opening ports, 4 × 10 in ports in the cockpit—
Toilet—1,11,9A marine toilet in each of the two heads, make not named; US lists: manual marine toilets with holding tanks (2003 list: 13.5 gal aft, 15 gal forward)—The heads are one-piece GRP mouldings with shower trays and electric shower drain pumps. The European equipment list does not mention a holding tank.
Water pump—2,1Electric pressure-water system with expansion tank, make not named; electric shower drain pumps—
Water heater22 l2,4,9Calorifier heated by the engine or by 220 V shore power, with mixer taps; US lists: 6 US gal—
Bilge pump—1,9One manual bilge pump in the cockpit and one electric bilge pump; makes not named—
Fridge180 l · Adler Barbour2,11,8,9Europe: 180 l GRP icebox with electric refrigeration unit, picnic icebox in the cockpit table · North America: Adler Barbour 12 V refrigeration and freezer units in the 2-cabin galley, refrigeration only in the 3-cabin galley; unit types not named—
Stove— · Force Ten1,7,9Europe: gimballed stainless gas cooker with oven and two burners, make not named · North America: Force Ten two-burner propane stove with oven—Gas locker for two bottles on the port side of the cockpit.
Batteries2 × 140 Ah + 96 Ah · 200 Ah + 100 Ah1,8,9Europe: two 140 Ah service batteries and a 96 Ah engine battery · North America: one 200 Ah battery and a 100 Ah engine battery, 50 A alternator—Distributor switch; 12 V panel with 16 circuits (4 more with the 220 V option), voltmeter, ammeter and water-tank gauge.
Charger20 A · 40 A1,9,8Europe: 20 A charger with the 220 V shore supply and four sockets · North America: 40 A charger with 110 V shore power and seven outlets (eight on the spec sheet); makes not named—
InverterHeart Freedom Jazz 2500102003 ‘411 Limited’ package (North America)—
Air conditioning16000 BTU11,4,9Option, drawn on the layout plans of the Clipper and Celebration brochures; the US lists also offer air conditioning; make not named—None of the documents names a heating system.

Specifications

Length overall12.71 m (41’8″) on Beneteau USA’s spec sheet and Beneteau’s Performance pages; 12.78 m on Beneteau’s 2002 model pages and in the Celebration brochure; 12.67 m in the 1999 Clipper brochure8,5,12,4,11
Hull length12.34 m (40’6″), to ISO 8666 per the Clipper brochure; 12.30 m on Beneteau’s Performance pages11,8,5
Waterline length11.00 m (36’1″)8,13
Beam3.94 m (12’11″); 3.95 m in the Clipper brochure and on the Performance pages8,12,4,11,5
DraftEurope: 2.00 m deep keel standard, 1.70 m short keel optional (Clipper brochure, equipment list of September 2001); in 2001 Beneteau wrote that the deep keel had been standard for about a year, and some of its pages still give 1.70 m. North America: 1.45 m (4’9″) shoal bulb keel standard, 1.70 m (5’7″) deep bulb keel optional11,1,14,8,9
KeelCast-iron bulb keel, bolted through the hull and the inner structure; the 1998 US list describes the deep option as a bulb keel with winglets11,1,8,7
BallastNorth America: 2495 kg (5500 lb) with the 1.45 m shoal keel, 2375 kg (5236 lb) with the 1.70 m keel; the European documents give no ballast weight8
Displacement7800 kg (17196 lb) light displacement in the Clipper and Celebration brochures and on Beneteau USA’s spec sheet; Beneteau’s 2001–2002 model and Performance pages give about 8500 kg11,4,8,12,5
Sail area83 m² standard (Europe); 88 m² on the Performance and Celebration editions (mast 0.80 m taller, 5 m² more sail); Beneteau USA gives 79.2 m² (853 sq ft) with the standard in-mast furling rig and 83.3 m² (896 sq ft) with the optional classic mast; rig I 14.55 m, J 4.97 m, P 12.66 m, E 4.52 m11,4,6,8,9
GenoaRoller-furling genoa, 145 % in the European equipment list, 140 % in the Clipper brochure and on US boats; area not stated1,11,8
Air draft17.83 m (58’6″) above the waterline, mast length 14.365 m (Beneteau USA); the Performance and Celebration mast is 0.80 m taller8,4
Headroom1.94 m in the aft part of the saloon and under the companionway hatch, 1.92 m forward, in the galley and in the cabins (European equipment list); US lists: up to 6’4″1,8,9
EngineEurope: Volvo or Yanmar ‘see price list’, power not stated; Performance and Celebration: Volvo Penta D2-55 (55 hp); North America: Westerbeke 42B4 of 42 hp (1998 list), later Westerbeke 44A4 of 40 hp, with a 56 hp Yanmar as option (spec sheet rev. August 2002)1,4,7,8,10
Fuel tank150 l (Beneteau’s model and Performance pages, 2001–2002); 136 l on the Celebration page of October 2002; US boats: aluminium tank, 39.6 US gal on the spec sheet (the lists give 39 or 40 gal)12,5,6,8,9,7
Water tank550 l in two tanks moulded into the hull liner; US documents: 151 US gal (spec sheet), 158 US gal (equipment lists) or 145 US gal (2003 spec page)1,12,8,9,13
Holding tankUS boats: 2 × 13.5 US gal (spec sheet); the 2003 list gives 13.5 gal aft and 15 gal forward; the European equipment list names no holding tank8,9,1
Cabins2, 3 or 4 double cabins, always 2 heads (standard version: 2 cabins, 2 heads); US boats 2 or 3 cabins11,4,9
Berths6–8 on Beneteau’s 2002 pages, 6/8/10 on the 2004 dealer page; doubles 2.00 × 1.45 m, owner’s aft double 2.00 × 1.85 m; in the 4-cabin version a 2.00 × 1.40 m double right forward and a second forward cabin with two bunks12,15,1
DesignerGroupe Finot; Beneteau’s Performance pages write Finot-Conq11,4,14,16
BuilderBeneteau, France (the documents give Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, Vendée); North American boats: Beneteau USA, Marion, South Carolina1,11,7
HullSolid GRP hull with a moulded inner structure glued and glassed to it; balsa-sandwich deck; rudder on an epoxy-composite stock. US boats: vinylester resin against osmosis (1999 page); the 2003 list gives a carbon-fibre composite rudder, rudder tube and quadrant1,11,17,9
CE categoryA (10 people), B (12)12,6,11
VersionsOceanis 411 / Oceanis Clipper 411 (Europe); Oceanis 411 Performance (2002 limited edition: mast 0.80 m taller, full-batten Incidence ‘offshore’ sails, Volvo Penta D2-55, folding propeller); Oceanis 411 Celebration (2002, 70 boats: the Performance features plus a navy-blue hull, Raymarine electronics and an optional Exclusive pack with teak side decks and an electric winch); Beneteau 411 (North America, built in Marion, SC) and its 2003 ‘411 Limited’ package (midnight-blue hull, Yanmar 56 hp, larger winches, Horizon Express windlass, inverter)4,5,8,10
Hulls builtMore than 1200 by the end of 2001 (Beneteau); the Celebration edition was limited to 70 boats14,5,6
Years built1997 (as the 1998 model) to about 2004: still in Beneteau’s range as the 411 Celebration in October 2003, next to the Oceanis Clipper 423, and on a beneteau.com dealer page in October 20048,18,15

Good to know

  • First find out which 411 you are looking at. North American boats (built in Marion, South Carolina, sold as ‘Beneteau 411’) have a Westerbeke engine (the 42B4 early on, later the 44A4 of 40 hp, with a 56 hp Yanmar as option), 110 V, an in-mast furling main and usually the 1.45 m shoal keel. European boats have a Volvo or Yanmar engine, 220 V, a slab-reefed main with lazy-jacks and a 2.00 m or 1.70 m keel. Read the engine plate rather than the listing.8,1,9
  • The engine sits under the companionway: the two-part GRP steps hinge up (on a gas strut, according to the US lists). It drives a conventional stainless shaft that runs in a skeg moulded into the hull, so there is no saildrive diaphragm to replace; check the shaft seal, the cutless bearing and the shaft anode instead.1,9
  • A mast 0.80 m taller, a full-batten main on ball-bearing cars and a Volvo Penta D2-55 with a folding propeller mark a 2002 Performance or Celebration; the Celebration (70 boats) also has a navy-blue hull with gold decoration, Raymarine ST60 instruments, a Raychart 530 and an ST6001+ autopilot. A midnight-blue US boat is more likely a 2003 ‘411 Limited’, with a 56 hp Yanmar, 54 primaries and an electric windlass.4,5,10
  • The winches are Lewmar chrome self-tailers: 48 CSTO primaries, with 30 CSTO on the coachroof in Europe and 40 CSTO in the US. Lewmar still publishes its winch service manual (standard and self-tailing, sizes 6 to 90), so a stiff or slipping winch can be serviced on board instead of replaced.1,9,19
  • As delivered, the electrical system is modest: in Europe two 140 Ah service batteries, a 96 Ah engine battery and a 20 A charger; in the US one 200 Ah and one 100 Ah battery, a 40 A charger and a 50 A alternator. Check what has been upgraded before you add an inverter, a fridge or a watermaker.1,8,9
  • Beneteau delivered an owner’s manual with every boat but does not publish it online: ask a Beneteau dealer first, otherwise Beneteau’s helpdesk explains how to request a copy. For the US engines, Westerbeke publishes the operators manuals for the 42B Four and the 44A Four free on westerbeke.com.1,20,21,22

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Sources

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  21. westerbeke.com/operator's%20manual/37435_35b_38b_42b_operat_man.pdf
  22. westerbeke.com/operator's%20manual/44180%20rev3%20operators%20manual.pdf

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