FIESTY LITTLE FRENCHIE

Enter the Dufour 360 Grand Large. First off, don’t let the 360 fool you. While this model measures 10.73m overall, the hull itself is only 9.9m. Like all the Dufour Grand Large range, the 360’s been designed by the Italian-based Felci Yacht Design, a marriage of Italian flair and French GRP production boatbuilding expertise.

Owners Liam and Ann Power have only just taken delivery of Seminole, having purchased the yacht through Flagship Marine, the Dufour agents for the past three years. Flagship Marine representatives spent four days in the Dufour factory checking the brand out before taking it on.

“Dufour does a few things in the background that give its boats more structural integrity than some others,” says Power. “Keel floors glassed to the hull instead of just bogged, the internal grid going