Dufour 390
Mar 09, 2021
4 minutes
By Charles J. Doane
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. 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 makes the Grand Large concept even larger than before.
DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION
The hull is solid hand-laid fiberglass set in polyester resin, with neopentyl glycol (NPG) resin in the
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