2005 Beneteau Oceanis Clipper 343

Ideal for families, friends or couples, the Beneteau Oceanis 343 is the perfect sailing boat for those who want to escape. With its bright and welcoming living spaces, comfortable space above and below deck and ease of sailing, La Dolce Vita is the perfect Bay boat!

• Reverse cycle AC / Heat
• In-mast furling
• Updated wheel-mounted auto-pilot
• Gorgeous interior with traditional cherry joinery

Basic Information

Dimensions & Weight

Engine

Tank Capacities

Accommodations

Interior

The interior of the 343 feels large for a 34' boat, due to its wide beam, great headroom, and lots of natural light from the overhead windows and hatches. The interior, with its gorgeous cherry woodwork, give a traditional yacht feel and is in above average condition. Settees are long and wide enough to be sea berths with the addition of lee cloths and the outboard lockers offer good stowage solutions for a long cruise. The table leaves fold down to serve six for dinner, or down and out of the way for everyday use.

• Headroom: 6'6"
• Straight settees to port and starboard
• Salon table with drop leaves
• Overhead opening hatch with shade/screen, plus a fixed deck window with shade cover
• Chart table to starboard
• 12V fans
• Reverse Cycle AC/Heat

To starboard of the companionway steps is the roomy head. The molded gelcoat interior is easy to keep clean, and three ports provide more than adequate light and ventilation.

• Headroom: 6'5"
• Washroom molded in one piece to be watertight
• Countertop with washbasin, mirror, storage cupboard and lockers
• Hot water / Cold water shower  
• Jabsco manual marine toilet 
• Separate shower area with teak bench

To port, the galley features everything you need to cook a proper meal with space to provision for a long weekend away.

• Headroom: 6'6"
• Double stainless steel sinks
• Hot / Cold pressurized water  
• 2 burner gas oven/stove on a gimbaled mounting
• Vitrifrigo front opening fridge w/ freezer
• Plenty of cupboard space
• Microwave 

Behind the galley to port is a the aft cabin with a large athwartships double berth. There's an aft-facing opening port in the transom to ensure flow-through ventilation. Forward is a hanging locker, another couple of opening ports, and access to the side of the engine.

• Headroom: 6'7"
• Double berth: (6’6" x 7’1")
• Bench seat - Bed access sideboard
• Hanging locker & shelving
• 2 opening ports with curtains
• (2) reading lights

A good-size V-berth dominates the forward cabin, with a hanging locker to starboard, shelves to either side, and lockers to port that will provide plenty of space for those who don't pack too much.

• Headroom: 6'1"
• Central double berth (6'6" x 5'5")
• Double cupboard (Hanging locker - Shelving)
• Overhead hatch with shade/screen
• (2) reading lights

Deck, Hull and Cockpit

The Beneteau 343 is constructed with a solid fiberglass hull, with a fiberglass and balsa cored deck that is thru bolted and bonded.  It features a 5" shallow draft cast iron bulb keel fixed with bolts and stainless steel backing plates.  

The roomy cockpit with wrap around cockpit seating can easily fit 6 for a sail. The helm has a pivoting wheel that can be turned to port when not in use to make additional room. The helm seat lifts to permit easy access to the swim platform and the freshwater cockpit shower. To starboard, there's a large lazarette with fantastic storage for boat gear, fenders and large things; to port, a lazarette that's shallow enough to easily grab and extra winch or dock line without too much of a reach. All lines are lead aft to the cockpit and the jib winches are placed within easy reach of the helm.

• Self-draining cockpit 
• Pivoting helm seat for ease of access to swim platform
• Teak slatted helm seats on each side of the cockpit
• Stern perch seats
• Side cockpit lockers
• Starboard aft cockpit locker
• Separate LPG gas locker to port
• Pivoting steering wheel & pedestal with a handrail, cup holders
• Drop-leaf cockpit table
• Engine control panel built into seating to port
• Manual bilge pump in cockpit
• Emergency tiller access
• Swim ladder
• Cockpit shower on transom
• Handrail to assist in boarding 
• Stern mounted propane grill

On deck, wide walkways with molded non-skid deck and easy egress over the coamings from the cockpit provide sure footing for sailors heading to the bow. Plenty of handholds make moving fore and aft easy, especially while underway. The cockpit canvas keeps the sun and rain away for protected sailing in any conditions.  

• Stainless steel bow fitting with offset fairlead
• (2) Roller fairleads and aluminum mooring cleats forward
• (2) Roller fairleads and aluminum mooring cleats midship
• (2) Roller fairleads and aluminum mooring cleats at stern
• Stainless steel bow rail
• (2) Stainless steel stern pulpits
• Aluminum toerail
• Lifebuoy horshoe support 
• Lifesling
• Flagpole holder
• Outboard engine bracket
• Double lifelines w/large gates supported by SS stanchions
• (2) Teak handrails on coach roof 
• Lewmar electric windlass with remote
• Primary and Secondary anchors
• Bimini, dodger and connector piece; covers for dodger eisenglass
• Cockpit cushions
• Helm cover
• Last haul out winter 23/24
• Last bottom paint Winter 2022

Sails and Rigging

STANDING RIGGING

• Discontinuous stainless steel wire rigging
• Genoa roller furling system
• Split backstay
• (2) aft lower shrouds and (2) cap shrouds on side deck
• Chain-plates mounted inboard for better upwind performance and ease of movement on deck
• 9/10 fractional aluminum mast 

RUNNING RIGGING

• Genoa halyard
• Main halyard
• Boom topping lift
• (2) Genoa sheets
• Rigid boom vang led to cockpit
• Genoa roller furling line led to cockpit
• Mainsail halyard led to cockpit
• Mainsail topping lift
• Line organizers  
• (2) Double jammers to port: Main halyard, roller furling inhaul and outhaul, mainsheet
• (1) Single jammer to port: for traveler control
• Mainsheet traveler
• (1) Double jammer to starboard: mainsail traveler & boom vang 
• Genoa roller furling unit w/furling line led to cockpit via toe rail lead blocks and a single jammer
• (2) Genoa tracks on side decks
• (2) Genoa sheet return blocks with integral jammers 
• Some running rigging has been recently updated

WINCHES

• (2) Lewmar 40ST primary winches 
• (1) Lewmar 30ST winch on coach roof for mainsail handling

SAILS

• 140% Roller furling genoa
• Roller furling mainsail 
• Sails are original, but in good shape.  They are removed, cleaned and serviced annually

Mechanical, Plumbing and Electrical

MECHANICAL

• Yanmar 3YM30 29HP diesel engine w/ estimated 600 hours
• Digital hour meter on the engine control panel has stopped displaying hours (this is very common)
• Engine control panel in cockpit
• Soundproofing foam in engine compartment 
• Stainless steel propeller shaft
• Three blade fixed propeller (coated with PropSpeed)
• 20 gallon fuel tank with electric gauge
• 60 Amp alternator 
• All belts and raw water pump new in 2023
• Reverse cycle heat AC

ELECTRICAL

• 12 Volt electrical panel
• (1) Start battery / (2) house batteries (2022; removed during winter storage)
• 20 Amp battery charger 
• (2) 30 amp shore power cords - one line dedicated to house system, the second dedicated to dockside air conditioning

PLUMBING

• 15 gallon water heater (shore power or engine driven)
• 21 gallon holding tank
• 68 gallons of water, split between 2 tanks (at bow and to starboard)
• Cockpit shower

Electronics

• Raymarine A70 chartplotter
• Raymarine ST60 - depth / boat speed
• Raymarine ST60 - wind speed / direction
• Raymarine i70 wheel mounted autopilot (new display 2021)
• ICOM M402 VHF
• Ritchie compass
• Sony stereo with salon & cockpit speakers  

Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.