Dufour 39

Design

Designer

Umberto Felci, Luca Ardizio

Summary

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

39.4 ft (12 m)

Hull length

36.1 ft (11 m)

LWL

—

Beam

13.5 ft (4.1 m)

Draft (min)

6.4 ft (1.95 m)

Draft (max)

—

Air draft

—

Displacement

18,960 lb (8,600 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

2–3

Heads

1

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

—

Jib

—

Genoa

—

Sail area

—

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

30–45 hp

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

42 gal (160 L)

Fresh water capacity

42 gal (160 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

—

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Standard power

30 cv

Deck

injection moulding

Rudder

single

Version 3 cabins

1 owner's cabin + 2 spacious aft cabins / 1 bathroom

Displacement

unloaded

Version 2 cabins

1 owner's cabin + 1 spacious aft cabin / 1 bathroom

Layout options

bathroom (opt)

Hull

vacuum infusion

Option power

45 cv

Engine power basis

per engine as printed

Layouts & Drawings

2 drawings from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

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About Dufour Yachts

Volume production

French sailing-yacht builder founded by Michel Dufour in 1964, building monohulls at Périgny near La Rochelle and part of the Fountaine Pajot group since 2018 — six models from the Dufour 37 to the Dufour 54, hull lengths 10.77 to 16.84 m, two to five cabins.

Michel Dufour founded the yard at La Rochelle in 1964, and its timeline credits that first boat, the Sylphe, as the first production fibreglass sailing yacht sold ready to sail. The Arpège of 1970 took a reverse transom that stretched it to 9.25 m and was built 1,500 times; in the 1980s, under the impetus of Marcel Bich, the yard turned towards performance and racing with renowned naval architects, a period the 3800 and 4800 stand for; and in the 1990s the Classic range ran to fourteen models from 30 to 50 feet in five years. Umberto Felci's Dufour 40 of 2002 brought modern lines and, by the yard's account, the Sailing Yacht of the Year title for 2003, and the Dufour 365 Grand Large was named Sailing Yacht of the Year in 2006, opening the Grand Large range of fast, comfortable cruisers. After modernising its production and widening its ranges from 2008, Dufour joined the Fountaine Pajot group as a majority-owned company in 2018, moving to infusion and further upmarket; in 2021 it fitted a hybrid-electric drive with hydrogeneration to the 41, 44, 470 and 530, and in 2026 it set a new course centred on life outdoors. The yard counts more than a hundred models and some twenty-five thousand yachts since 1964.

The Dufour Yachts Range

Every model Dufour Yachts publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Dufour 5455.2 ft
2. Dufour 4850.2 ft
3. Dufour 4445.6 ft
4. Dufour 4141.8 ft
5. Dufour 39· this model39.4 ft
6. Dufour 3735.3 ft

By the Same Designers

Boats this boat's designers also drew, for other builders too. Credits are grouped only where the names clearly agree, however each builder spelled them; an unclear one is left out.

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