Used Dufour 34 Performance for sale
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All about Dufour 34 Performance version
At Dufour, a Charente shipyard specialising in cruising yachts, they've kept things simple since the mid-2000s: For cruising, there are GLs (Grand Large) and for racing, there are Performance yachts.
The Dufour 34 Performance, launched in 2008, is a sports yacht. 65 m2 of sail area upwind reefed to 34 feet is testament to that fact. But the Dufour 34 E Performance is far from being a small, stiff and uncomfortable brute (10.60m long and 3.60m wide, 5,300 kg empty weight).
As for the style, you can feel every pencil stroke from the architect Umberto Felci in the slender bow, the sloping roof, and the wide stern. This Performance version can be fitted with a "Performance pack", a regatta-style pack, which features a higher mast than its GL cousin, dyneema sheets, a deeper bulbous keel, genoa haul-out adjustment from the cockpit, a backstay with a tackle and a folding propeller. You could get this version without sails which meant you could adapt your rig to suit what you wanted the boat for. A real racer!
Inside, it has a classic layout with two cabins, a galley, a saloon and a shower room. We'd like to give the chart table a special shoutout; it was a real shame it disappeared from the current line. A Volvo Penta engine on a saildrive of 19 HP finishes off the boat's equipment by making it sufficiently powerful to free itself from a tidal current with the help of the engine.
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