40' Dufour 40E Performance Racers and Cruisers

Manufacturer Provided Description

The target set for architect Umberto Felci and the Dufour Yachts Design Office was to come up with something even better than the Dufour 40. What a challenge! And they more than came up with the goods!

Its many qualities speak for themselves : finesse, precision, exciting sailing.

Take a look at :

• cruising/racing deck layout, suitable for sailing with a full or reduced crew, out on the open sea or between two buoys;
• below decks, the refinement and quality of Dufour Yachts’ interiors.

All adding up to a fast boat for racing or just for the pleasure of skimming through the water; which at the same time lets you enjoy proper cruising in comfort.

• Hull: Hand-laminated in polyester/glassfibre; sides made from
  vacuum-bonded PVC foam core sandwich.
• Decoration: Decorative grey stripes on hull.
• Gelcoat: NPG gelcoat with first mat impregnated with NPG resin
  forming an optimum barrier against osmosis.
• Structure: Hull bottom counter-moulded, floors laminated into the hull.
• Deck: Sandwich with injected PVC foam core
• Ballast: Keel bolts bear on stainless back-plates
• Rudder:Semi-elliptical shape, filled with closed-cell epoxy foam.
• Rudder stock:Solid stainless steel.
• Steering: Self-aligning roller bearings with ball-bearing sheaves
• Non-slip deck surface: Non-slip structured deck surface.

• Shroud chain-plates: Single stainless chainplate for cap shrouds/aft
  lower shrouds, including an eye for fixing extra control lines.
• Safety chainplates: Safety harness chainplates in cockpit floor
• Chainplates: Asymmetrical spinnaker tack ring forward of forestay
• Midships mooring cleats: 2
• Mooring cleats: 4
• Rubbing strips: 6 stainless, on hull sheerline
• Fuel deck fillers: 1
• Water deck fillers: 2
• Mainsheet tracks: On cockpit floor with car adjustment lines.
• Genoa tracks: With plunger cars.
• Pulleys:2 genoa sheet return pulleys with built-in jamcleat and
  attachment plate for spinnaker fly pulley.
• Through-deck fitting: Stainless, for electrical cables, swan-neck.
• Deck organizers: 2 deck organizers for halyard returns.
• Halyard winches: 2 halyard winches on cabin roof.
• Sheet winches: 2 Genoa sheet winches
• Jamcleats: 2 rows ofjamcleats port/ starboard level with the companionway
• Furler line jamcleats: 1 at aft end of sidedeck
• Hatch covers: Polyester hatch cover forward of the companionway

• Cockpit bench seats: Slatted teak
• Lockers: 2 large side lockers, lids with fixing for padlock.
• Helm: 2 steering wheels
• Helm console: 2, aluminium
• Engine control: Engine control panel and lever to starboard
• Compasses: 2 on coaming aft .
• Gas locker: On port side.
• BIB locker: “Life raft stowage in dedicated locker in cockpit, aft.”
• Shower: Cold water.
• Shore supply: Socket to stbd in cockpit
• Cockpit floor: Cockpit floor in polyester, slightly concave, with solid
  wood toe-boards
• Emergency tiller: Head of rudder stock beneath helmsman’s floor for
  fitting the emergency tiller

• Configurations: L-shaped on port side of companionway
• Worktop: In GCorian®C synthetic resin with wooden fiddle.
• Sink: Stainless, twin bowls with Corian®C synthetic resin covers,
  one of which can be used as a chopping board
• Water: Hot and cold pumped water with chrome-plated brass
  single-lever mixer tap.
• Gas cooker: 2-burner cooker with oven on gimbals, with stainless rail
• Crockery storage: Dowels to retain crockery when heeling.
• Refrigerator access: From side and via the worktop.
• Storage
  - 3 closed cubby-holes
  - Under sink with waste bin
  - Outboard lower unit with cutlery drawer and sliding vegetable
  baskets.
  - With 3 sliding Plexiglas bins, with bottle rack under floor.
• Waste bin: Sort compartments
• Other: Light and ventilation provided by an opening port and ceiling
  lights over galley.

• Mast: Anodized aluminium with 2 levels of swept spreaders
• Rigging: 9/10 fractional
• Mast stepping: On keel.
• Lights: Anchor and masthead lights.
• Topping lift: Boom topping lift cleat.
• Boom: Anodized aluminium fitted with 2 quick-reefers.
• Standing rigging: Discontinuous in single-strand and Dyform*
  stainless cable, chrome-plated bronze rigging screws, comprising:
  forestay, backstay, cap shrouds, inter and lower shrouds.
• Mast collar: Aluminium, with synthetic gasket and halyard return
  pulleys.
• Backstay: Backstay adjusted with stay tensioner.
• Running rigging: Running rigging in pre-stretched textile
  (Dyneema available as option), including: main and genoa halyards,
  boom topping lift, main and genoa sheets, mainsheet car and downhaul
  adjustments, reef lines and furling line.

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. Hours listed may vary from actual hours due to recent use. Purchaser is encouraged to verify hours prior to purchase. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.