Today’s high-volume cruisers are built to cater to two distinct worlds: effortless, luxurious living at anchor, and comfortable, confidence-inspiring handling when passagemaking shorthanded. Given this is the eighth generation of Oceanis yachts, Beneteau clearly knows what it is doing and what its target buyers want. As with other high-volume boat of this size, the cockpit offers L-shaped seating and split, lowering tables. The aft cabins feel enormous, especially compared to the previous model, the tender garage of which intruded on aft cabin space. On this boat, an inflated tender of 3.1m can be stowed athwartships without impinging on the aft cabins.