Dufour 36 Classic for sale in Plymouth United Kingdom

Dufour 36 Classic – 2003 - £64,950

TheDufour 36 'Classic' is a popular modern cruising design offering a great combination of comfortable, spacious accommodation and a powerful sail plan that is manageable and confidence inspiring.

This nicely presented and well equipped example has the3 double cabins layout, with additional [occasional] berths in the roomy saloon. The 'master' cabin offers indulgent seating and space as well as the berth itself and the galley takes the 'linear' form and therefore offers generous storage and the larger 'fridge.
'PIccolo' has had:
New standing rigging fitted 2019,
A new sprayhood fitted in Late 2021,
New synthetic swept-laid 'Teak' fitted to the whole of the ring deck in Spring 2022.
New saildrive shaft seals fitted in March 2023.

The topsides have just been freshly cleaned and the underwater surfaces anti-fouled in readiness for the 2023 season. Early viewing is recommended; this is a remarkable and well presented example - we're confident that 'Piccolo' will not be available for long!

Accommodation

Up to 8 berths in 3 Double cabins plus saloon berths.

Forward Cabin: offset double berth to port with large stowage lockers under. Large stowage locker forward with access above foot of berth. Seating area to starboard. Generous hanging and shelved lockers to starboard. Forward opening deck hatch & second smaller ventilation hatch over berth.
Saloon: with generous & comfortable L-shaped seating to port around a pedestal table. Generous two person island seat with internal stowage and a substantial backrest offering a useful handhold. Excellent ventilation and natural light from three portlights and two overhead hatches. 
Galley: a linear galley along the starboard side of the main saloon offers a generous amount of worktop space. An Eno 2-burner gas cooker with oven. Double stainless steel sinks with pressurised water supply, supplementary manual pumped outlet for fresh or sea water with changeover valve. A separate tap is fitted, supplying filtered drinking water. A deep and shelved top-opening refrigerator with 12v Isotherm cooling plate.
Ample stowage lockers.
Chart Table: good sized, forward facing chart table is sited to port with dedicated seat and chart storage. Adjacent main electrical panel.
Heads: heads compartment situated aft to starboard with Jabsco sea toilet, basin with pumped H&C freshwater and a shower with electric pump out. Opening portlight. Under-sink locker contains a centralised location for skin fittings and a freshwater distribution manifold. Fitted with a useful flow meter to display volume of water used.
Two Aft cabins (mirrored in form), each with: a double berth, double-doored hanging locker,  two opening portlights to the respective side deck & to the cockpit well giving good cross flow ventilation.

• Teak & Holly cabin flooring.
• Sony radio player with Bluetooth function, saloon and cockpit speakers.
• Masthead TV Antenna and TV Signal booster fitted in 2019
• Eberspacher diesel warm air cabin heating with digital timer, heater outlets in all cabins including the heads compartment.

Navigation Equipment

At Steering pedestal:

• Raymarine ST60 Tridata log/depth/speed.
• Raymarine ST60 Wind speed & direction.
• Magnetic steering compass.
• Raymarine ST8002 autopilot control (Fitted 2011).
• Raymarine RC435i colour chart plotter display.

At Companionway:

• Raymarine C90W colour chart plotter & radar display.

At Chart table:

• MLR FX312 GPS display.
• Raymarine AIS650 Class B AIS transponder (send & receive) connected to a Comar AST200 antenna splitter.
• Simrad RD68 VHF/DSC Radio

Sails And Spars

Alloy mast and boom by Z-Spars with double, swept spreaders and discontinuous stainless steel wire standing rigging.
New Wire Standing Rigging fitted 2019
Facnor furling headsail system
Z-Spars rod kicker
All Control lines lead aft to the cockpit via 12 Spinlock rope clutches
2 x Lewmar 30ST self tailing twin speed halyard winches
2 x Lewmar 40ST self tailing twin speed sheet winches
Lewmar mainsheet track with car and traveller system forward of the sprayhood
Slab reefed mainsail with 2 reefs
Spinnaker/Whisker pole
Sails:

• Full width battened mainsail (2013) with Rutgerson roller luff cars to both battens and intermediate slugs.
• Roller reefing Genoa with padded luffPenrose Sails).
• Asymmetric cruising chute with snuffer.
• Symmetric spinnaker with snuffer.

Mechanical And Electrical Systems

Volvo Penta MD2030, 30hp indirectly-cooled diesel engine, driving though a saildrive transmission unit to a 3-bladed, folding propeller.

• Approx 1366 hours recorded (Mid March 2023).
• New Saildrive shaft seals fitted March 2023

Electrical Systems.

• 2 x 12volt lead acid batteries form a domestic battery bank totalling 200Ah capacity.
• 1 x engine cranking battery (new in 2022).
• All charged by the engine driven alternator, or a shore powered battery charger.
• Nasa BM-1 Battery condition monitor fitted in port aft cabin
• 240v Shore power connection with lead, battery charger and immersion heater.

Tankage:

• Fuel – 170 Ltr.
• Water – 330 Ltr in 2 tanks.

Deck Equipment

• Stainless steel pushpit, pulpit and guardwires with access gates each side.
• Boarding step to pulpit.
• Electric anchor windlass - Lofrans Cayman 88 with warping drum.
• Brittany type anchor with ample chain and warp.
• Multiple warps and fenders.
• Blue sprayhood (New in Late 2021).
• Acrylic cockpit enclosure.
• Mainsail stack pack cover with lazyjacks.
• Whitlock steering pedestal with hide covered wheel.
• Teak folding cockpit table and mug rack mounted on the steering pedestal.
• Transom shower.
• Midships spring cleats.
• Outboard stowage pad on the stern rail.
• Polished stainless steel ensign staff.
• Set of cockpit cushions.

Safety Equipment

• Manual and electric bilge pumps.
• Fire extinguishers.
• Horseshoe Lifebuoy.
• Stern boarding/recovery ladder.

General note on safety equipment: Any safety equipment such as life rafts, EPIRBs, fire extinguishers and flares etc. are usually personal to the current owner(s) and if being left on-board as part of the sale of a used vessel may require routine servicing, replacement, or changing to meet a new owners specific needs.

History And Construction

GRP hull, deck and superstructure
Constructed by Dufour Yachts in 2003, hull No.391
Fin keel with spade rudder
Main ring deck finished in synthetic Flexy-Teak material (New in Spring 2022)
Teak laid cockpit seats and cockpit sole
Wheel steering.