Dufour 56

The exclusive Dufour 56 - a smooth cruiser offering both style and substance. With three cabins and two heads - plus a bunk room - this loaded sailboat offers everything needed for the ocean cruising family.

Manufacturer Provided Description

OCEAN CALLING Like you, we want to experience the ocean.

Every day, we strive to design yachts to make your dreams of offshore adventures a reality.

A peerless yacht with stunning aesthetics, the Dufour 56 is designed, first and foremost, for high-sea sailing. Fast, seaworthy and reliable in all circumstances, it embodies the very essence of a powerful, safe and easy-to-manoeuvre sailboat. With its tilling consoles equipped with commands for all winches and electric furlers, sailing on the Dufour 56 is child’s play.

Inside, the Dufour 56 sets a new standard for on-board luxury and comfort with a sophisticated design and high-end features.

As many owners report, the Dufour 56 will give you the most thrilling emotions and take you wherever you wish to go.

Construction

• Hull: Composite sandwich hand-laminated polyester.
• PVC panels are vacuum-bonded for better adhesion to laminate.
• Structure: Hull bottom counter-moulded, floors laminated into the hull.
• Gelcoat: NPG gelcoat with first mat impregnated with NPG resin forming an optimum barrier against osmosis.
• Decoration: Grey for waterline and decoration line
• Deck: Sandwich with injected PVC foam core
• Ballast: Keel in cast iron with stainless steel bolts bear on stainless back-plates (optional shallow draft)
• Rudder: Semi-elliptical shape, filled with closed-cell epoxy foam.
• Rudder stock: Solid stainless steel.
• Rudder quadrant: Stainless steel cables and quadrant 610 mm diamter.
• Non-slip deck surface: Non-slip structured deck surface.

Accommodations

3 staterooms, 1 bunkbed cabin, 2 head layout. Electrically controlled convertible dinette table in main salon with seating for 8, portside chart table. Forward of the main salon is the galley, featuring full fridge/freezer with additional chefs refrigerator, microwave, 3 burner stove&oven. Forward stateroom has offset bed, private head with electric freshwater head, shower. Two aft cabins with full foam mattresses, second head portside with electric freshwater head, shower.

Equipment & Running Gear

Four blade folding prop. Manual & electric bilge pumps. Teak Cockpit & Swim Platform, Full Cockpit Cushion Set /Inc Backrests, Cockpit Transom Shower, Outboard Engine Bracket, Canvas Sunning Pads For Forward Deck, Ladder, Lifeline Gates, Anchor Windlass, Automatic Anchor Washdown. Refrigerator, BBQ and sink on deck.

Cavnvas includes: Full Dodger, Full Cockpit Bimini w/ Connector To Dodger, Custom Canvas Deck Cover.

Sails

Roller furling mainsail
Self tacking jib
Code zero
Electric primary & secondary winches - T-55s
Electric companionway winches - T-50s
All lines led aft

Electronics

Raymarine Electronics Package Navigational Information & Functions Between
The Two Helm Positions & Nav Station Below
Magnetic Compass
2 - Raymarine 12" HybridTouch Color Chartplotters - At Helms
Raymarine Radar
Raymarine Multi Display
Raymarine Autopilot
Raymarine VHF w/ AIS & Remote Mic
Fusion/Bose audio system with cockpit & salon speakers.

Electrical

4 zone AC
50 Amp Service
10 KW Fisher Panda Generator
AC Switch Panel
Shore Power Cord
Battery Charger
Volt Meter
DC House Power
DC Switch Panel
System Integrated Inverter
Retractable Bow Thruster
Jet Thruster Stern Thruster
7 Deep Cycle Batteries

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.