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Catalogue Dufour 455

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>>> COCKPIT >>>

• Teak trimmed seats, GRP sole.

• Two large side lockers with lids fitted with padlock hasps.

• GRP steering pedestals.

• Rudder stock head under helmsman's sole for installing the emergency tiller.

• Marine engine lever and control panel easily to hand for the helmsman on the starboard side.

• Transom open in centre with a tipping helmsman's seat giving access to the swim/boarding platform.

• Gas cylinder locker in aft port seat. Life boat raft stowage in dedicated locker under helmsman seat.

• Cockpit shower in aft locker. Folding stainless steel bathing ladder.

>>> SAILS & RIGGING >>>

• Anodised aluminium mast with double swept backed spreaders, rigged 15/16, deck stepped.

• Anchor and steaming lights.

• Boom topping lift marine cleat. Anodised aluminium boom equipped with two single line reefing system.

• Genoa furler.

• Grounded rigging system.

• Continuous standing rigging in single strand stainless steel cable and chrome plated bronze turnbuckles including: forestay, double backstay, cap shrouds, inter and lower shrouds.

• Pre-stretched running rigging including: Main and Genoa halyards, boom topping lift, Main and Genoa sheets, two reefing lines, outhaul line, Mainsheet car control line, furling line, boom vang tackle.

• Mainsail equipped with two broad reef bands, with battens and bag. Furling Genoa with anti-UV protection.

>>> VENTILATION & LIGHTING >>> Very good ventilation is ensured by 10 deck hatches with integrated ventilators, four opening port-lights on roof with curtains, permanent ventilation with two aerators, «mushroom» models.

• Two hull port-lights as well as four fixed pot-lights add to the saloon's natural brightness.

Numerous spotlights and reading lights come in a chrome finish.

>>> TECHNICAL DATA >>>

Architects : ......................Umberto Felci / Patrick Roseo

>>> CONSTRUCTION >>>

• Hand laminated GRP hull.

• The NPG gelcoat (the first layer of cloth is impregnated with NPG resin) forms an optimum barrier against osmosis.

• Inner moulded hull bottom, structural grid laminated to the hull. Hull portlights in the saloon. Deck in Balsa core sandwich, made by Infusion process.

• Draft 2.20m, cast iron keel, bolt loads taken up by stainless steel backing plate.

• Semi-elliptical rudder, filled with closed cell epoxy foam. Stainless steel, solid stock.

>>> DECK & DECK FITTINGS >>>

• Teak handrails on coachroof. Wooden toerail.

• Self-draining chain locker with eye bolt and integrated windlass bracket, lid with locking bolt. Stemhead fitting anchor roller.

• Pulpit with wooden step and separate green/red navigation lights.

• Pushpits with horseshoe buoy bracket, flag pole holder, boat navigation light, and opening cable gate with hook.

• Stanchions with two levels of life line.

• Six aluminium mooring cleats. Single stainless steel chainplate for cap shrouds/aft lower shrouds. Two chainplates for the backstay.

• Two deck fillers, one water and one for fuel.

• Mainsheet track on and adjustable traveller on coa-chroof. Boom vang.

• Genoa sheet tracks with piston lead blocks. Genoa sheet turning blocks on coaming.

• 8 sheave deck organizers for halyard returns, mainsail sheet and reefing lines.

• Stainless steel swan neck electric/electronic cable gland. Two x three clutches on coachroof.

• Two x 44.2 ST halyard winches on the roof to starboard.

• Two x 53.2 ST genoa winches on coamings close to the helmsman.

L.O.A.:..................................................................13,76 m

Hull length: .........................................................13,45 m

Waterline length: ................................................11,91 m

Max beam:.............................................................4,30 m

Light displacement (approx.) : .........................10 426 Kg

Standard draft : .....................................................2,20 m

Optional draft: .......................................................2,00 m

Keel weight (approx.)..........................................3 000 Kg

Air draft: ..............................................................17,90 m

Fuel capacity: ..........................................................250 L

Water capacity:........................................................530 L

Engine power: ...........................................55 CV (41 kW)

>>> SAIL AREA >>>

Sail area, close-hauled: ................................... 96,20 m².

Mainsail:...........................................................41,20 m2.

Genoa: .............................................................. 55,00 m2.

>>> SAIL PLAN >>>

I : ...............................................................15,60 m

J : ................................................................5,56 m

P :..............................................................14,20 m

E :................................................................5,00 m

LP (140 % overlap) .....................................7,05 m

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