| Description | The accommodation is as follows; galley, nav station and saloon on the bridge deck level. The galley is compact and efficient, the sturdy saloon table is ample enough to serve a full complement of guests. To the all-round saloon view, Nautitech adds forward-facing opening ports that provide very good cross ventilation. All cabins provide standing headroom and good light and ventilation from several deck hatches in each hull, and all are tastefully finished without excessive wood veneer.
Adequately sound-insulated spaces contain twin Volvo Penta engines with Sail Drives and two-bladed folding props, access to the engines is via the rear berthes, one has to unfold half of the berth.. Dufour has succeeded better than most at providing standing headroom in the saloon and adequate underwing clearance without creating a Winnebago profile. A fiberglass canopy partially protruding over the cockpit lends the cockpit shade without a vulnerable canvas dodger, and it streamlines the boat’s profile.
Those who enjoy sailing will appreciate the outboard, twin Whitlock rack-and-pinion steering stations.
A walkway between the stations is a nice safety feature. Good lifelines and bow-and-stern jack-line anchoring points are provided. Escape hatches, which one hopes never to use but are essential to ultimate multihull safety, are provided in each hull. Attention to safety includes life raft stowage on the aft cross beam.
Hulls and deck are vacuum-bagged sandwiches of non-woven bidirectional and tri-directional cloth in isophthalic resin over closed-cell PVC foam. Epoxy-laminated marine plywood bulkheads include crash bulkheads in both bows. The forepeaks are foam-filled. Fin keels built independently of the hulls reduce the risk of serious hull damage in a grounding situation. A solid-wood rub rail protects each hull.
The fractional aluminum rig is stepped immediately ahead of the forward saloon windows at deck level on a horizontal surface with halyard lockers -- an efficient working platform that is more secure than a mast stepped on a curved coach roof. A full-length traveler spans the beam aft of the cockpit. |
| GeneralEquipment | Liferaft ( 8 people), anchor bell, EPIRB, 3 fire extinguisher, megaphone, Lifesling, MOB buoy, radar reflector, Life Ring (auto-inflatable), 8 life jackets (semiautomatic), sea anchor, lights, horn, signaling device, flashlight, head lamp. |
| Navigation | Autopilot (Autohelm ST 6000) with remote control, two barometers, Chartplotter, two binoculars, fish finder with GPS, handheld GPS, Handlot, 2 compasses, HF transceivers, NAVTEX, NOAA Weather Radio, compass, wind indicator, Tridata (log, Lot, miles) with additional display, radar, VHF with DSL, hand-VHF, various manuals, maps, triangles, circles, etc.
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