2000 Beneteau 361 — Port Henry, NY 12974

A 2000 Beneteau 361 at Port Henry, New York, asking $76,000 through Boats R Fun. A Berret-Racoupeau drawing built from 1999 to 2004: 36.4 ft of hull on 12.5 ft of beam, carried well aft. The beam is the point — it buys the volume that lets a 36-footer be sold with two or three cabins and a proper head, which is the yard's standing argument and the reason a boat this size reaches liveaboard territory. It sold in the hundreds, many into charter. A coastal cruiser, an evolution of the Oceanis 36; nobody drew it for high latitudes.

Two things we cannot tell you. This is the only 361 on our shelf, so there is no sister to price it against. And our record carries no condition note, no days-on-market and no equipment list: rigging age, engine hours, and whether the hull spent its life in the fresh water Port Henry sits on are questions for the survey. We have not seen this boat.

What the monohull shelf can place is the money. At $76,000 it asks more than any other Beneteau under 40 ft we hold, and only $13,895 less than a boat four feet longer and four years newer. Nearest is the yard's other thirty-six — the 2000 First 36 at Tampa, same year, same length, $16,100 less, the performance line rather than the cruising one.

Where the same brief meets a smaller budget, the 2003 Oceanis 331 at Key Biscayne is that idea one size down — three years newer, $26,100 under:

And the upgrade this asking price already brushes against: the 2004 Hunter 41 Deck Salon at Hilton Head, four feet and four years on for $13,895 more:

For 36 ft of two-cabin cruising on Lake Champlain, this is the one to survey first: