Dragonfly 36 debut

Chiara’s slave said:
Our tender goes in the cockpit floor locker. Life raft, on the foredeck. You’d get a rolled up rubber duck into the outrigger on the 40 no prob. Probably do that on a 32 too, the amas are much bigger than ours. We fit our paddleboards in, 10 fenders, warps, a 25 litre plastic jerrycan and the wetsuits and fins, vital boat scrubbing gear, that. I don’t know where the batteries etc are on other boats, but on ours, starting at the bow, under the forward double berth, is the water tank, the batteries, the holding tank and the charge controllers. Tri sailing is just like mono sailing to make it go along, then you just need to remember that the telltales must fly all the time. Downwind too. And that, if you don’t watch yourself, you’ll thunder off onto a reach whilst trying to beat. The apparent wind changes a couple of degrees, you might not notice. The log changes more….
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not sailed a Dragonfly though I have sailed a Farrier and owned a cat - a Prout. So I would comment that the big disadvantage any multi has compared to a mono is load carrying ability. Yes you have lots of space, particularly on a cat, but filling it up with all the junk we normally carry on a mono has a dire effect on performance
 
Birdseye said:
not sailed a Dragonfly though I have sailed a Farrier and owned a cat - a Prout. So I would comment that the big disadvantage any multi has compared to a mono is load carrying ability. Yes you have lots of space, particularly on a cat, but filling it up with all the junk we normally carry on a mono has a dire effect on performance
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Yes, we do take care with weight, but in fact have no particular problems. Like I said, we have about a 3 day endurance, about 500 miles of daylight sailing in summer. As it’s a Cat B boat, that seems to be adequate.
 
Cariadco said:
The DF40 was stunning.....but at a tad over 1m euros........No way Jose.
The XR41 was also stunning, the missus eventually got me to remove my Tongue from the Hull.
600k? Bargain? Humff.....
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Did you get aboard the DF36, or was the queue too long?

Yacht TV have just released this, teutonically thorough, walk through. (With an American-AI voiceover dubbed on).

 
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Dunno if that chap has made a close inspection of any previous DFs. Things he seems to think are brand new are mostly just evolution, a feature taken slightly further than on previous designs. The aft end of DF amas have had a distinct flat section starting with the 920. It keeps the ama planing, and supporting the heeling loads between gusts, as I understand it. Borge was keen to explain such things when he was attending boat shows.
 
Cariadco said:
The DF40 was stunning.....but at a tad over 1m euros........No way Jose.
The XR41 was also stunning, the missus eventually got me to remove my Tongue from the Hull.
600k? Bargain? Humff.....
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We crawled all over the 28 (as I fancied buying one) but the 36 and the 40, we just peered through the windows. Both we're very similarly laid out inside.
Soz but the new 28 was too much money, actually they all were, way too much money.
So, I'm gonna still be Sailing/Cruising/Racing for another year, with my current little pussycat.
Bought myself a new A2 Asymmetric though...!!
 
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