Turning up the volume! Sailing the Dufour 41 | Yachting World

I can understand the appeal. The boat offers a lot for owners limited to slip availability. The smaller the boat, the easier it is to find a slip it fits in.

Thanks for the review. These mass-produced boats are starting to get annoying. While the cabin designs are getting better, the solon and galley designs are getting worse. Production, workmanship and material quality is a separate problem. As we see the problems of the material and workmanship used on the interior, it raises doubts how high quality the boat shell production can be. I think these boats will not be long-lasting and will not be worth the money paid... They are just trying to manipulate the feeling of quality with various design games. They are getting far away from the concept of reliable, quality boat suitable for real marine life. Unfortunately, good boats are at least three or four times more expensive than these. So sad...

When the interior designer of this boat goes to hell, he'll have to cook in that galley on a hard starboard tack for all eternity.

Are you really going to need all three heads at once on a 41 footer, even though it has two aft cabins (yet another design flaw)? It could have a really nice chart table in place of one of them.

As always you do a good report I noticed the lack of grab rails below and next you mentioned the lack of one on the desk head not a boat for long distance sailing more day sailing and marina at night. Again a good review Toby

I like the full bow lots. My boat is also near 40 and has some similar features including lots of forward displacement and very similar layout. The kitchen setup is something they will get some pushback on. I think most who cook may have some issues with it. PS, I have the same big windows, awesome in so many ways. Huge views out of every room has lots going for it.

How many hatches and ports might leak in 10 years time?

OK watched again seems like a nice rv if you put wheels on it. Hot mess for that much $$$

3 heads? You'd have to be full of shit to buy that lay out

Those large hull windows 🤮🤦

When consumerism meets sailing. Just say it's just another McGregor. Sailboats should be categorised as cruising boats, racing boats and charter boats like this one.

Ugly un-seakindly carib/ med marina trailer. Yuk. Go buy an RV if this trash attracts you.

Nice design. Instrument panel should be on the wall, not behind saloon sofa. The fridge butting of the galley is strange because it restricts the pathway inside and isolates the sink from the stove. The usual straight galley would have sufficed with a chart table in the corner wall and the instrument panel close by. 👍

Love love love! I wonder how any modern boat doesn’t come standard in mast main furler however?

Stunning looking yacht, with absolutely amazing style, but that galley is a disconnected fail.

I have some suggestions to the company:
1. They should put it inside the kitchen stove head container.
2. Two toilets/showers are not enough, they should add one more.

Love it

Man that thing is ugly

Just delivered one of the new dufours to the carribean and will say that they are definetly coastal cruisers and going offshore with one isn’t a good idea.

Great and objective review!
But with these looks and the poor finishing quality it will never be my choice, not even for this very acceptable asking price.

It looks incredibly uncomfortable at sea. Be nice downwind, but punching into a sea

Terrible, like all current boats from the big manufacturers!

What a fantastic day sailer!

ah ah, i've passed 5 different french macif week-courses on those Dufour, they are more though you could think, they serve all year long, 5 days a week or 10 days for long courses, each week, accross the atlantic and the med.
I've took a 7-force gale 3 days in front of Lorient in winter with a 40, it was brutal and the ship was like a charm.
But, like in the video : finish and varnish are über fragiles and there is ALWAYS water in the bottoms ! and we never know why, but we must scoop it at the end of each course.

Wow, I don't get that galley at all. So I am cooking something at the stove, and want to put the pan in the sink, but I can't reach it without going around the fridge. This would quickly become very annoying. The galley doesnt offer any support when on starboard tack, and would be a dangerous area. No chart table deprives the owner of his/her own private workspace. No sail locker. I think this has been built for the med charter market, but not a good owners boat for northern waters.

Not just the water with the exposed plywood Toby, the Caribbean has had some pretty large TermiteSwarms this year, and plywood = Restaurant now open in glowing Neon lights sadly. If I bought one, I think I would get Termite Protection Treatment done tbh, because Termites aren’t just in the Caribbean. In good news, the Termite Colonies in South West England, do appear to have finally been eradicated. 🍻👍⛵️🌟🌟🌟❤️

Disappointing, not for me….I’ve got a Jeanneau 41ds and she is gorgeous inside and out and sails beautifully….come on designers surely you can come up with something that owners can be proud of and want to buy…IMO boats need to look like boats not Motorhomes or Caravans inside!

I love when they talk about the interior design as if it’s the Cistine chapel. It looks indistinguishable from every other modern cruiser.

A pure charter boat, and for nothing else.

I thought the super-wide angle footage, up high from the stern and moving forwards was brilliant. Nice smooth camerawork.

It's interesting. Some unconventional ideas and some hits and misses. Can't fault them for trying something slightly different.

Feels a bit more like an apartment than boat, and that's not necessarily bad.

The build quality speaks for itself.

Thanks Toby and Dufor!

I honestly don’t get the negative comments. Not every boat is meant for blue water, world girdling. In fact, the vast majority of mass produced sailboats - boats like this Dufour - are built precisely for the manner in which they’ll be used: hanging with friends in the cockpit, coastal day sailing and cruising with perhaps a night or two away from one’s home port a few times a year. For that, they’re perfectly fine.

This vessel is horrible and the only reason it's getting awards or media recognition is that the builder spends a s^it-ton of monthly advertising in the marine trades. That's how many industries work.

100K youghurt cup, I`d never take the cup across anything more than a belt....

Is your wrist ok Toby?

Looks like an experiment gone wrong.

Looks like iron 😂

Looks like a floating basement designed by Pontiac Aztec.

Hi Toby does it have old dufour build quality? What do you think about the scou bow for heavy weather cruising? Can see the racing boats seem to be ok but constantly slamming in the videos? Would be interesting to see how it fairs when it’s 5/10yrs old. But unreal amount of m2 to live on.

That's what you get when you mate a bathtub and a caravan.

It's safe to say that there's not enough safe options to grab to when the boat is heeling. The fiddle by the edge of the table is not enough for elderly people, small children or anyone with any sort of health issues with their hands. You can tell this boat wasn't made to last, too many questionable bulding decisions like that playwood and the lack of space to store the sails you'd use in a passage.

Very detailed review. Nice boat. Thank you, Toby! ⛵⛵

As pretty as she is on the inside, she is just as ugly on the outside. As an owner I would say it is not mine if I would be asked. Who needs all these windows? Especially in the hull? Felci did some nice ones for Dufour, the former 40 or the last 45 (I sailed on both, very nice ships). But this one... No.

All of these monohulls kinda blend together imo.