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Coastal Cruising

Coastal Cruising: YachtCodex lists 589 models, 5.5–24.0 m long. The builders with the most are Beneteau (35), Jeanneau (30), and Sea Ray (30). The largest in production is the Fountaine Pajot FPY 80 (24.0 m); the shallowest draft is the Beneteau First 18 SE's (0.18 m).

Boats certified and sized for the coast: CE Category B or C, up to 16 metres for a sailing yacht and up to 24 metres for a motor yacht, racers excluded. Above 24 metres a boat is a crewed yacht under the Large Yacht Code rather than something a family takes out, which is where this list stops. A motor boat that publishes no CE class still counts when its type is a day type -- sport cruiser, day boat, bowrider, centre console, RIB, jet boat, pontoon -- and it is 16 metres or under, because those types are built for the coast by definition.