Dufour 40 Performance

This Dufour 40 Performance is the sporting version of the 40 model that was voted Sailboat of the Year at Le Grand Pavois and took the IMS world title in 2005. Designed by Umberto Felci, she combines a genuinely sporting character with the comfort of a full cruiser: a fractional sloop with a bulb fin keel and spade rudder. « Blue Dragon » has been in the hands of the same owner since new and has been maintained consistently. With approximately 1,385 engine hours after more than twenty years, standing rigging fully replaced in 2022 and a comprehensive sail wardrobe from 2020, this is an exceptionally well equipped example in the three-cabin layout.

Located in Nieuwpoort Belgium, viewings are highly recommended!

Principal upgrades

• 2025: Lewmar wheel re-covered in leather

• 2024: navigation lights renewed in LED

• 2023: Code Zero with furler

• 2022: standing rigging fully replaced

• 2022: new Quick electric windlass

• 2020: principal sail wardrobe

• 2020: new boom

• 2019: saildrive diaphragm replaced and major engine service

Engine & drive

• Volvo Penta D2-55B diesel, 55 hp, with saildrive

• Approximately 1,385 engine hours

• 2019: saildrive diaphragm replaced with major engine service

• 3-blade folding propeller

• Volvo Penta engine controls to starboard in the cockpit

Sail wardrobe

• Comprehensive set of sails in good condition, principal sails from 2020

• Spinnaker with snuffer

• 2023: Code Zero with furler

Mast, rig & standing rigging

• Deck-stepped mast with two sets of spreaders, mast height 19.30 m (Performance rig)

• 2020: new boom

• 2022: standing rigging fully replaced

• Wire backstay, mechanically adjustable with hand-operated tensioner

• Lazy jacks, topping lift, main halyard and spring-loaded vang

• Dark blue mainsail cover

• Aluminium spinnaker pole with Sparcraft track car and downhaul

Winches, sheets & deck gear

• 2 × Harken 48 two-speed primary winches

• 2 × Harken 40 two-speed winches at the companionway

• Harken genoa tracks, blocks and mainsail handling gear

• 11 Spinlock clutches, principal lines led aft to the cockpit

• Harken mainsheet traveller on the cockpit sole with 3:1 purchase

• Mainsheet via Harken tackle with 5:1 purchase

Helm & navigation

• Lewmar wheel, leather renewed in 2025

• Mechanical cable steering via quadrant

• Raymarine ST60 Tridata and ST60 Wind

• Raymarine ST6001 autopilot

• Raymarine SL70C radar / navigation display with radome on the mast

• Plastimo Olympic 135 steering compass, stainless handrail around the instrument console

• Icom fixed VHF and Cobra handheld VHF

• VDO stereo system

• 2024: navigation lights renewed in LED

• Steaming light and deck light also replaced

Cockpit & deck

• Cockpit sole, cockpit seats, side decks and anchor locker in solid teak

• Blue sprayhood with three fixed windows

• Stainless guardrails with boarding gate to port and starboard

• Deck hatches and side windows visually in very good condition

• Winter cover available

Underwater hull & maintenance

• The boat is hauled out every year in Antwerp

• Annual sanding and fresh application of antifouling

• Hempel antifouling

Ground tackle

• 2022: Quick electric windlass

• Plough anchor with 50 m of renewed chain

• Windlass also operable from the forward cabin