Jeanneau NC 33

The “NC” in the Jeanneau lineup stands for “New Concept.” While that may sound like mere marketing to most people, the builder’s NC 33 brings a lot of clever convertibility to the table. If there’s a piece of furniture on board, there’s a good chance it can transform to do something altogether different from its original purpose.

Below you’ll find a two-stateroom layout with a midcabin guest stateroom and a master stateroom in the bow. Lots of light flows into the master through dual panes of hull-side glass with opening ports. There are also dual opening hatches overhead. The midcabin guest stateroom should be comfy for occasional overnight or weekend guests. A shared enclosed head/shower is between the staterooms.

Up two steps is the saloon, which designers drew with an eye toward bringing outdoor scenery and air inside. The cabin sides have large glass panels with opening windows, and a power sunroof provides a vista of the sky above. A sliding glass door is next to the helm seating for accessing the side deck or talking with folks outside. Triple-panel sliding glass doors aft slide to starboard or port, and open up the galley or the dinette to the teak-decked cockpit.

The transom section of the L-shaped cockpit lounge slides forward and aft to expand or condense seating capacity, and has a large stowage compartment beneath it. Its base flips up, and the aft seatback flips down to form a sun pad. The teak decking feels good underfoot, and access to the teak- smothered swim platform is through a transom cutout. An optional awning provides relief from the sun on summer days. On the foredeck is more convertibility: a sun pad switches to laid-back lounge seating by flipping up two seatbacks.

Twin 220-hp Volvo Penta D3 diesels are accessed via a cockpit hatch, and are paired with Duoprop sterndrives. The NC 33 can giddyap to a top end of 31 knots, and the engines are most efficient around 22 knots.