Dufour 390
The boatbuilding scene in La Rochelle, France, was significantly transformed in 2018 when the town’s largest catamaran builder, Fountaine Pajot, acquired the town’s largest monohull builder, Dufour Yachts. Soon afterward a revised design brief for Dufour’s popular Grand Large line of cruisers was introduced, the vanguard of which was the new Dufour 390, which first appeared in U.S. waters in late 2019 in Annapolis. The redesign by Umberto Felci features a sexier cabinhouse, more beam aft and pronounced hull chines running two-thirds the length of the boat. All of which—you guessed it—makes the Grand Large concept even larger than before.
The feel of the boat throughout, in spite of the
