CNB sailboats for sale

Buying a used CNB: know which owner and yard built your hull

A used CNB carries more variance than its semi-custom reputation suggests: hulls launched decades apart can come from a fully custom Bordeaux build, a Beneteau-era Monfalcone production run, or the brand's newest chapter under Solaris. Because CNB has changed both parent company and build location more than once, provenance matters as much as model name when judging a used hull — a boat's era says almost as much about who built it, and how, as the number on the transom. Treat "CNB" less as one consistent product and more as a lineage that has genuinely passed through different hands.

Which era to target

CNB's earliest boats were fully custom, one-off yachts built before the Bordeaux 60 introduced semi-custom production. Custom yachts like Chrisco — later renamed CNB 100, and twice honored at the 2009 International Superyacht Design Awards — sit in a different category from anything that followed, both in rarity and in what a survey needs to cover. The bulk of the used semi-custom market comes from CNB's time inside Groupe Beneteau: the Bordeaux 60, and, from 2013, the CNB 76, together with the CNB 66 from 2017, all built at Beneteau's Monfalcone, Italy site using a modular method that assembled the interior in sections before lowering it into the hull. Boats from CNB's newest era, under Solaris since 2021, come from a different yard entirely — production of the 66 and 76 shifted to Solaris's own site near Monfalcone starting in 2022, and the CNB 78 and CNB 62 that followed were built there from the outset, with Solaris returning to more traditionally laminated-in bulkheads rather than the Beneteau group's industrial modular technique.

What to inspect across the range

Yachting World's tests of the Beneteau-era flagships turned up a run of small ergonomic niggles worth checking in person: on the CNB 66, testers wanted a handrail on the saloon deckhead, found the companionway steps too angular for use at heel, and noted the joystick thruster controls sat close enough to the wheel to get knocked; on the CNB 76, they flagged a mastbase halyard winch that could be faster and twin rudders that cost some control when backing under power. By contrast, Yachting World's test of the first CNB 78 — the first model built entirely under Solaris — reported very few niggles on that early hull, a useful data point on how construction execution has evolved between eras.

Navigating the lineup

Size band matters more than model number once you've settled on an era: the Bordeaux 60 and CNB 62 anchor the smaller end of the semi-custom range, the 66 and 76 the middle, and the 78 the current flagship, while larger one-off custom yachts from CNB's earlier decades occasionally surface separately. The full model directory on this page breaks the lineup down by size and year for buyers narrowing from era to specific hull.