All new Dufou 41

[Supertramp]

Cromarty 36. The deck conservatory folds away and the companion way is strange but works well as there are no ladders etc. This photo shows the front of the pilothouse with turning blocks for the kicker and topping lift. The other side has outhaul and furling line. It works, but there is a lot of friction in several turning blocks. Might need to mount them on an angled delrin or teak pad.

Long keel and decent displacement make it steady to sail especially singlehanded. A lot slower than a Dufour 41. No boat is perfect but its confidence inspiring and very comfortable.

 

[Wansworth]

But only if you do not choose layout 1 to have a utility room, then it is only 2. The web site still shows it as 3, which is incorrect.

Well it’s your choice to have leeward of windward bogs?

 

[Wansworth]

Cromarty 36. The deck conservatory folds away and the companion way is strange but works well as there are no ladders etc. This photo shows the front of the pilothouse with turning blocks for the kicker and topping lift. The other side has outhaul and furling line. It works, but there is a lot of friction in several turning blocks. Might need to mount them on an angled delrin or teak pad.
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Long keel and decent displacement make it steady to sail especially singlehanded. A lot slower than a Dufour 41. No boat is perfect but its confidence inspiring and very comfortable.

Where do the ladies sunbathe?

 

[Wansworth]

Nice boat in good condition for its age by the looks of it?

 

[Supertramp]

Where do the ladies sunbathe?

Pilothouse roof...! Not much call for it here though.

 

[magicol]

What a depressing thread. Once again the ‘style’ police emerge with their bile about modern boats. Why is it that this wonderful, informative and helpful forum is so often hijacked by those who despise modern boats and the people who sail them.
I make no apology for, on retirement, downsizing our house and cashing in the pension to buy my average white boat. 10 meters of wonderful, life enhancing, joyful access to the sea with a fair degree of future proofed comfort. Arthritis, hip replacements, surgery, old age: we’re defying them all and still enjoying our sailing in some comfort in a modern boat. Yet this forum is full of contributors who directly or indirectly sneer at my choice of boat, despise my lack of open water ambition and vilify my preferred design.
Scientists, engineers and designers have through the ages, always had to cope with luddite attitudes but we all ultimately benefit from their innovation.
Let’s be kinder and more tolerant.

 

[Wansworth]

Don’t take it so personally,everyone has had a say and reached to some extent an agreement at the same time expressing their thoughts and I have been enlightened to thenatureofthese new designs and their limitations….and some nice pictures of a proper boat?

 

[E39mad]

You won't see much out of those mid ship windows with the fenders down.

I like my sleeping cabins to be dark and quiet - maybe some people like lounging in their cabin all day looking out of the windows instead of sailing.

 

[E39mad]

Cromarty 36. The deck conservatory folds away and the companion way is strange but works well as there are no ladders etc. This photo shows the front of the pilothouse with turning blocks for the kicker and topping lift. The other side has outhaul and furling line. It works, but there is a lot of friction in several turning blocks. Might need to mount them on an angled delrin or teak pad.
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Long keel and decent displacement make it steady to sail especially singlehanded. A lot slower than a Dufour 41. No boat is perfect but its confidence inspiring and very comfortable.

A more modern Fisher - same designers.

 

[LittleSister]

What a depressing thread. Once again the ‘style’ police emerge with their bile about modern boats. Why is it that this wonderful, informative and helpful forum is so often hijacked by those who despise modern boats and the people who sail them.

What? Where? Have we read the same thread?

All I see is some gentle joshing, and a pretty good natured exchange of various views and opinions, including admissions from both camps that the opposite camp's favoured boat types and boating styles have some merits.

I have just skimmed through the whole thread again to see if I'd missed something, and can't see anyone else using the sort of inflammatory language that you have, nor ascribing ill will to others.

Let’s be kinder and more tolerant.

At least we can agree on that.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Anyway, there are plenty of other types of boat available. For those who are vehemently opposed to the dufour…. Alfred Mylne 57 ft Gaff Cutter 1903/2012

Equally impractical for a whole different set of reasons!

 

[Supertramp]

Beautiful.

How many toilets did you say it had?

But the point is it will be right for someone!

 

[Wansworth]

In one of my old copies ofthe yachting world annual I have the plans of anMFV owned. By some Major General who had three toilets with hardly room for much else below …..a regular chap?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Beautiful.

How many toilets did you say it had?

But the point is it will be right for someone!

Kelpie has just one manual bog. Real men just piss to leeward.

 

[KevinV]

In one of my old copies ofthe yachting world annual I have the plans of anMFV owned. By some Major General who had three toilets with hardly room for much else below …..a regular chap?

Chaps, Gels and Staff - sounds reasonable, you don't want to use the same loo as as the scullery maid

 

[James_Calvert]

Anyway, there are plenty of other types of boat available. For those who are vehemently opposed to the dufour…. Alfred Mylne 57 ft Gaff Cutter 1903/2012

Equally impractical for a whole different set of reasons!

Tiller steered!

I had a go on on something similar, also with a tiller.

Often wondered what happened to "Heroine"...

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Tiller steered!

I had a go on on something similar, also with a tiller.

Often wondered what happened to "Heroine"...

It’s thought that some of the other SCODs were destroyed in a yard fire, reading that broker listing. Anyhow, Kelpie is the last of the SCODs. Anyone got £250k they don’t need? Plus another 500k to run her in race trim for 5 years? No? Better look again at the Dufour then. Kelpie makes my dream Dragonfly 40 Carbon look sensible.

 

[doug748]

Where do we get the idea that this is "comfortable". Like living inside an Ikea bread bin:






Mind you one unkind forumite once said my luxurious saloon: "looks like Miss Marple's library" Rotter.

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[Skylark]

Where do we get the idea that this is "comfortable". Like living inside an Ikea bread bin:


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Mind you one unkind forumite once said my luxurious saloon: "looks like Miss Marple's library" Rotter.

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That looks comfortable to me but I’d prefer the slightly darker wood, also shown on their website.

I once owned an old boat, narrow beam, cramped accommodation, dark and depressing colours, low headroom, damp and with an ambient smell of mould so I can relate to the apoplectic response of many posters ???

 

[geem]

Where do we get the idea that this is "comfortable". Like living inside an Ikea bread bin:


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Mind you one unkind forumite once said my luxurious saloon: "looks like Miss Marple's library" Rotter.

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We were onboard a 40 year old American 47ft cruising boat last night for drinks. Never seen so much teak in a boat. I thought we had a lot. It felt very traditional and very nice and comfortable. Large saloon, huge galley, hand holds everywhere. Very well designed for liveaboard and life at sea. Absolutely nothing like the Dufour 41?.
A heavy boat but just done an Atlantic crossing from Tenerife to Antigua in under 18 days. Light doesn't always equal fast and certainly not comfortable