Masthead Sloop · Fin w/bulb & Spade Rudder · First built 2002
A high-volume masthead sloop designed by Berret-Racoupeau for comfortable cruising, also marketed as the Moorings 403
Designed by Berret, Racoupeau & Berret-Racoupeau.
See her sail
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
Footage from Wildling Sailing
Is it for you?
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her light displacement on a moderate beam gives 24 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.
2.02 — right around the 2.0 line, the edge between coastal and offshore.
177 — light for her waterline, so she is easily driven and quick to accelerate.
Light and lively — happiest day-sailing and coastal-hopping in settled weather.
Compared with 2875 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
What the fleet has seen
Derived from the videos the fleet has analysed of this model. ▶ marks open the moment aboard.
The Beneteau Oceanis 393 is a 12.0-meter masthead sloop designed by Berret-Racoupeau and built by Beneteau from 2002 to the present. It features a fin keel with a bulb and a spade rudder, a 4.0-meter beam, a 1.6-meter draft, and displaces 7780 kg.6:47 The model is also known as the Beneteau 393 and the Moorings 403.
The living fleet
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The record
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Boats like this, on the water
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The family
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