Some boats are good to begin with, but when Jeanneau decided to make a new version of its NC 895, the builder nailed it. The new NC 895 Series 2 is a very impressive design, especially on the inside.
Jeanneau still offers the original 895, which started out in 2012 as the Merry Fisher 855. In the ensuing decade-plus, almost 2,000 855s and 895s have been built. They are perfectly good boats, but for the NC 895 Series 2, the French builder completely rethought everything. Instead of dressing up the old hull, it completely redesigned the Series 2 with a new hull, deck, interior layout and propulsion.
All too often nowadays, boat designers try to pack a two-stateroom, one-head home and all the amenities into a 30-foot hull, which frequently…