International Dufour Grand Large and Dufour Performance Forum

has anybody build in a retractable bow thruster (f.e. maxpower compact retract) in a D40P.
if so, was there anything special to take in account?

on my D40P the top shrouds are in the back position. that's because the spreaders are looking backwards.

i don't know what type of boat you have.
but if you have 2 watertanks and for both tanks the water supply-valve is open, you will have this problem.
allways take care that one of the watersupply walves is closed.

in the front of the starboard genuatrack I have a screwable bould (some kind of a ring), screwd to the track. the inner forstay is just conncted by strap. very simple, but effective. the only drawback is that you have to fix the innerstay in-time. on a dancing deck (big waves) it's hard to fix the s...

the mainsail en genua (standard Elvstrom) of our D40P, 2006 are for sail.
only used for 1,5 year, after which we replaced them.

at boatersresourceses.com they offer a Dufour 40 performance plus - 40'.
there are 2 photo's where you can see a good profession in-fucker construction.

it is already a long time since we discussed the acces to the life raft locker. I changed the pins for 'violin-pins'. i tried it this weekend. by removing the violin-pin it's easy to remove the teak floor. then by pushing back the locker-cover it's easy to pick-out the life raft (6 persons plastimo)...

hi, I sail a D40P. practicly the same but a bit bigger. I use a carbon pool on a masttrack. Depending on the wind force and edge of the wind, the pool will be higher or lower. I also use double sheeting. 1. The sheet, that gomes from the back and outside the scepter to the spi 2. The guy which goes ...

did you check your thermostate?
Mine was brooking and the cooling stopt.

http://boefamily.dk/dufour385/userpix/109_IMG_0035_1.jpg I uploaded a picture how I did it. It's the same configuration they use on the 40PP. We used longer bolts. From the inside it easy to acces by opening the small plates in the sealing of the main cabin at the front side under the deckorganisers...

If you look in the Dufour owner manual, so find under the chapter 'Running Rigging" in the drawing exactly how to do this. 11 is your 'sheet', that's the free sheet from the spinnaker to the back 22 is the 'guy', in the middle of deck you find a flattening mounting point through which you bring the ...

The titel of the document is 'D40E_polaire-2', so I presume is the Dufour 40E

Attached some diagrams. The IMS certificate is for a p-14750, that is the tall mast version. The polar is forth standard mast. http://boefamily.dk/dufour385/userpix/109_D40Polardiagramstdmast3sails_kopie_2.jpg http://boefamily.dk/dufour385/userpix/109_Schermafbeelding_20160104_om_103720_1.jpg Hope y...

wrong boat, this is the 40E