Boat models · Dufour
Dufour 31
Sailboat, coastal cruiser · built 1973 · designed by Michel Dufour
Key figures
Comfort25.4moderate
Capsize screen1.98passes for offshore
SA/D14undercanvassed
D/L352heavy
Ballast ratio0.39average
Hull speed6.4kt
- Built
- 1973
- Designer
- Michel Dufour
- Builder
- Dufour Yachts (FRA)
- Rig
- Masthead Sloop
- Keel
- Fin with rudder on skeg
- Length
- 30.8 ft
- Beam / draft
- 10.5 ft · 5.7 ft
- Displacement
- 9,600 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on sailboatdata.com.
Reputation
Classcoastal cruiseras owners use it
Forumsrespectedpicked over its peers
Solid, quick 70s French cruiser with good sailing manners; check the deck and the old Volvo
- Coastal cruising
- respected · stiff, well-mannered, decent speed for its age
- Offshore passages
- ordinary · skeg rudder and heavy ballast, but a small boat
- First boat
- ordinary · cheap to buy but rare, so harder to resell
- Loved
- solid build to high standards · skeg-hung rudder, heavy ballast · sails well for its age · fiberglass headliner and good headroom
- Gripes
- original Volvo engines disliked · rare model, harder to resell · spares and info harder to find
- Survey for
- soft deck core · tired original Volvo engine · chainplate and deck fitting leaks
- Cross-shopped
- Pearson 30 · Dufour Safari · Dufour 34 · Contessa 32
Thin discussion; from cruisersforum.com, forums.sailboatowners.com, forums.ybw.com, forums.sailboatowners.com, sailboat.guide
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