The First Class 8 (FC8) is a One-Design keelboat designed in 1982 by Group Finot and Jacques Fouroux[1] to be constructed at Beneteau's shipyard.

Strongest fleets are located in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, Norway and Portugal.

It has straight lines for a boat of that age and has no reference to IOR hull shapes with huge beam, flared bows, and pinched sterns.

The boat's lines lend themselves to a dinghy style planing hull, as opposed to digging a hole in the ocean which was a characteristic of the mid period IOR boats.

The FC8 has a lot of wetted surface area which makes it slow in light air.