2024 Dufour 56
A peerless long-range sailing 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.
Basic Boat Info
Dimensions
Tanks
- 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 diameter.
- Non-slip deck surface: Non-slip structured deck surface.
- Mooring: 1400W electrical windlass (LEWMAR) fixed stainless steel anchor arm (32kg delta anchor and 100mt chain OPT)
- LED navigation light and tri-color mast head light
- Bow pulpits: Stainless, opening for easy access and for spinnaker handling
- Stern pulpits: Jackstaff bracket, navigation light, and opening lifelines with hook.
- Stanchions: With 2 rows of life-lines, one opening gate each side.
- Mooring cleat: 6, aluminium.(SIZE)
- Chainplates: 2 backstay chainplates, external side deck chainplates
- Fuel deck fillers: 2
- Water deck fillers: 3
- Safety gear: Safety harness padeye in cockpit floor and wood hand rail along coachroof
- Mainsheet tracks: On coachroof with adjusting car (2440 mm). STD
- Genoa tracks: 2 genoa sheet tracks, plunger-adjustable low-lead cars
- Genoa self tacking track
- Through-deck fitting: Stainless swan-neck for electrical and electronic cables
- Deck organizers: 2 deck 4-sheave organizers for halyard, sheet and reef line returns.
- Halyard winches: 2 halyard winches (T 55 LEWMAR) on coachroof.
- Mainsail halyard side winch ELECTRICAL
- Primary winches: 2 genoa sheet winches (T55 LEWMAR) at helm positions
- Jamcleats: 2 rows of jamcleats port / starboard level with the companionway
- Furler line jamcleats: 1 at aft end of sidedeck
- Hatch covers: Sliding companionway hatch in Plexiglas.
- Flush deck hatches: 5 X T60 + 6 X T20 flush hatches on deck (LEWMAR)
- Sprayhood
- Cockpit bench seats: Teak covered. (1975 mm)
- Helmsman’s seat: Teak covered.
- Cockpit floor: Teak cockpit floor(opt)
- Port bench seat: convertible into a sun deck.
- Lockers: 1 large side locker to Stbd with strut-assisted closing and fixing for padlock.
- Helm: Grp instrument console with 2 900mm diameter steering wheels BLACK)
- Cockpit table: wood cockpit table with grp structure
- Cockpit table Storage: storage space (refrigerator and sink OPT)
- Handrail: Stainless, on cockpit table + 1 in each steering column
- Shower: Hot and cold water in aft central section
- Shore supply: Stbd helm position
- Bathing ladder: Foldaway stainless bathing ladder.
- Engine controls: At starboard helm position
- Compasses: 2 on columns
- Gas locker: Under port helmsman’s seat
- BIB locker: Under floor
- Emergency tiller: A stainless tiller with deck plate for access
- Opening transom giving access to swim platform / tender garage with ELECTRIC mechanism /OPT
- Tender (opt) can be 3.10m with inflatable bottom / (OPT)
- Tender inflating/deflating electric pump (OPT)
- Access to tender garage is from deck and transom
- Access to steering system and (opt) autopilot
- Mast: Anodized aluminium with 2 levels of swept spreaders
- Rigging: 9/10 fractional
- Mast stepping: On deck
- Lights: Anchor and steaming lights and deck flood (LED)
- Topping lift: Boom topping lift cleats.
- Boom: Anodized aluminium equipped for 2 continuous reefs.
- Furler: Manual roller furling genoa system (FACNOR).
- Standing rigging: Continuous in stainless single-strand cable, chrome-plated bronze rigging screws, comprising: forestay, backstay bridle with twin rigging screws, inter and lower shrouds.
- Backstay: double mechanically adjusted
- Running rigging: “Running rigging in pre-stretched textile including: main and genoa halyards, boom topping lift, main and genoa sheets, 2 continuous reef lines, leech tensioner,
- 1 mainsheet car adjustments, furling line, downhaul tackle. (MAIN and JIB halyard in spectra)
- Mainsail: 2 wide reef strips, with battens and bag.(Dacron)
- Genoa: Furling genoa with UV-protection (Dacron)
Saloon
- Partially raised saloon position allows a front panoramic view.
- Plenty of natural light and ventilation is guaranteed by the front, side fixed plexi and the hatches in the coachroof
- Direct and indirect lights
- Night courtesy light in the saloon,
- Saloon: U-shaped banquette on port side (2.1 m)
- Central banquette: Sliding, with raising back rest
- Table: 3-function saloon table
- L shaped relaxing sofa to starboard side
Forward Cabin
- Double Berth: 200 Å~ 160 cm centred placed in the front bhd
- Mattress: 10 cm thick foam mattress with washable cover.
- 12 V /230 V socket
- 4 opening hatches above the bed
- Stowage:
- Side top lockers along side of hull.
- 2 hanging lockers with shelves.
- Below berth.
- 2 tidy pockets - Access: To navigation instrument transducers
Forward Head
- The owner cabin has an en suite toilette and a separated shower area
- WC: Electric sea toilet + basin with single-lever mixer tap
- Wash-basin: Polyester bowl with ‘Corian.’ synthetic resin top
- Water: Hot and cold water, chrome-plated brass single-lever mixer tap and shower head.
- Discharge: Direct, via an electric pump.
- Mirror: Large mirror
- Grating: ‘Corian.’ synthetic resin (std) or teak (std)
- Ventilation: Via deck panel or opening port.
- Cupboards: Storage unit
Aft Cabin
- Berth: 198 x 195 cm approx.
- Mattress: 10 cm thick foam mattress with washable cover.
- Stowage: Hanging locker with shelves and top lockers along side of hull.
- Ventilation and Natural Light: 3 openable hatches and 1 fixed hatches guarantees plenty of light
- Artificial Light: general roof lights and 2 reading lights in each cabin
- 12V & 230V electric outlets in each cabin
- Technical area: Between aft berths.
- Soundproofing: Double bulkhead provides acoustic and thermal insulation from adjoining engine compartment.
Aft Head
- Access: both from saloon and cabin
- WC: Manual sea toilet
- Wash-basin: Wash-basin unit with basin in Corian.C synthetic resin.
- Water: Hot and cold water, chrome-plated brass single-lever mixer tap and shower head.
- Discharge: Direct shower discharge electric pump.
- Cupboards: 1 high-level 2-door storage unit with mirror
- Mirror: Large mirror
- Grating: ‘Corian.’ synthetic resin (std) or teak (option)
- Ventilation: Via deck opening port.
- Other: Head to port and stbd. Separate shower to port
- Configurations: the galley is located one step down forward of the saloon and it runs across the full beam of the boat
- Worktop: ‘Corian.’ synthetic resin with wooden fiddle.
- Sink: Stainless steel bowl sink in port module
- Water: Hot and cold pumped water with brushed stainless single lever mixer tap.
- Gas cooker: 3-burner gas cooker with oven and grill, on gimbals, with stainless hand rail in port side
- Refrigerators: 130 lt front opening fridge Crockery storage: Dowels to retain crockery when heeling.
- Freezer: 65 lt front opening fridge ( Std )
- Stowage: various lockers
- 220 V microwave oven: In stbd hull cubby-hole
- Pump: Sea-water pump built-in under fl oor to stbd
- Waste bin: Sort compartments, to port
- Engine power: 110 hp (opt 150 hp)
- Bow thruster(opt)
- Transmission: Shaft-line with hydraulic V-drive reverse gear
- Cooling system: Heat exchanger, anti-siphon valve.
- Sea-water strainer: Sea-water strainer
- Fuel tank: 2 tanks with gauge on electrical panel. 500lt
- Fuel filter, water separator
- Shut-off valve: fuel shut-off valve on each tank with selection system.
- Control panel: Engine control panel with hours meter, engine stop and tachometer.
- Alternator: Alternator with battery isolator.
- Ventilation: Ventilation with 3 natural inlets and electric mechanical extract.
- Bilge: Separate engine bilge.
- Access: Access to the engine from front and both sides.
- 4-blade folding propeller
- Insulation: Carefully-designed foam acoustic and thermal insulation.
- Circuit: 12 V
- Distribution panel: 18 functions with circuit-breakers, voltmeter 12V / 220V
- Socket: 12 V on electrical distribution panel.
- Isolator: 1 per set of batteries (Descente)
- 12V / 60 Ah battery charger
- 12V / 220 V - 2000W inverter OPT
- 12V & 220V electric outlets in galley, chart table and each cabin
- Engine Battery = 140 Ah
- Service Batteries = 3 * 140 Ah