Dragonfly 28

Design

Naval architect

Jens Quorning and Steen Olsen

Summary

Best Suited For

• Short-Handed

  From the published figures: LOA 9 m · upwind 55.5 m²

• Coastal Cruising

  From the published figures: CE Category B · LOA 9 m

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

29.5 ft (9 m)

Hull length

—

LWL

—

Beam

21.3 ft (6.5 m)

Draft (min)

1.3 ft (0.4 m)

Draft (max)

5.6 ft (1.7 m)

Air draft

—

Displacement

4,630 lb (2,100 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

—

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

398 ft² (37 m²)

Jib

199 ft² (18.5 m²)

Genoa

—

Sail area

597 ft² (55.5 m²)

Downwind sail area

1,044 ft² (97 m²)

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

15 hp

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

outboard

Fuel capacity

—

Fresh water capacity

24 gal (90 L)

Black water capacity

16 gal (60 L)

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

—

Deck material

—

Keel type

centreboard (Swing Wing trimaran)

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Furling Code 0

Touring: 37 m² | Performance: 45 m²

Mainsail

Touring: 37 m² | Performance: 43 m²

Designed by

Jens Quorning and Steen Olsen

Upwind sail area

mainsail + jib (Touring rig)

Weight of standard dry boat ready to sail, excl. extra equipment

2,100 kg

Unsinkable

Yes

Mast section total, excl. antennas

Touring: 12.10 m | Performance: 13.60 m

Draft board up

0.40 m

Mast

Touring: 12.10 m; Performance: 13.60 m

Payload max. incl. crew

750 kg

Draft board down

1.70 m

Length overall centre hull

9.00 m

Downwind sail area

mainsail + asymmetric spinnaker/gennaker (Touring rig)

Engine

Engine, outboard: 15 Hp

Persons (CE)

category B: 5; category C: 7

Asymmetric spinnaker

Touring: 60 m² | Performance: 83 m²

Bowsprit length

Touring: 1.60 m | Performance: 1.90 m

Water capacity

90 l

Beam sailing

6.50 m

Payload max., incl. crew

750 kg

Holding tank

60 l

Beam folded

2.54 m

Versions

Touring / Performance -- stored figures are the first column; all columns follow

Max. No. of persons, CE-Category C

7

Furling jib

Touring: 18.5 m² | Performance: 21.5 m²

Max. No. of persons, CE-Category B

5

Beam

sailing 6.50 m; folded 2.54 m (Swing Wing)

Length folded

Touring: 9.99 m | Performance: 10.40 m

Engine, outboard

15 Hp

Displacement basis

weight of standard dry boat ready to sail, excl. extra equipment

About Dragonfly Trimarans

Semi-custom

Danish family yard building folding Swing Wing cruising trimarans since 1967 — today the Dragonfly 25, 28, 33, 36 and 40, from 7.65 to 12.40 metres — founded by Børge Quorning at Skærbæk near Fredericia and run by his son Jens, with some 40 boats a year.

Børge Quorning came home to Denmark in 1966 from boatbuilding in Canada with one ambition, to build trimarans and make Europeans appreciate them, and in August 1967 he and his brother Bent built a yard at Skærbæk with their own hands -- the same hall still stands beside the office. The first boat, the Trident 28 of 1968, found only one buyer, so the brothers kept the yard alive with the double-ended Luna 19 and Luna 26 while experimenting with trimaran prototypes; the 16-foot plywood boat Børge built for his sons in 1972 was the first to carry the name Dragonfly. The brothers parted in 1974, the Trident 27 became the first production trimaran and the Dragonfly 25 followed in 1980, but the milestone came in August 1989 with the Dragonfly 800 Swing Wing, the first folding Dragonfly. Jens Quorning took over from his parents in 1995; the Dragonfly 920 of 1996 sold 168 boats, the 1200 flagship arrived in 2000, and 3D design from 2005 produced the Dragonfly 35, then the 28, 32 and 25. The Dragonfly 40 premiered at boot Düsseldorf in 2020 and was European Yacht of the Year 2021, the yard's fourth; trimaran number 1,000 was built in early 2022, shortly before Børge Quorning died at ninety, and the Dragonfly 36 followed in 2024 -- with Peter Quorning, the third generation, now Vice President.

The Dragonfly Trimarans Range

Every model Dragonfly Trimarans publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Dragonfly 4040.7 ft
2. Dragonfly 3637.9 ft
3. Dragonfly 3335 ft
4. Dragonfly 28· this model29.5 ft
5. Dragonfly 2525.1 ft

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