Quorning Boats Unveils new Dragonfly 36

[DragonflyBob]

Here’s a link - http://dragonfly.dk/new-dragonfly-36

She’s a beauty and could be an ultimate coastal cruiser especially for a couple who love comfort and performance. Will be pricey, I’m betting over $650k nicely kitted.

[massnspace]

I’m glad some people have 2/3 of a million dollars to spend on a small boat….

[DragonflyBob]

Originally Posted by massnspace

I’m glad some people have 2/3 of a million dollars to spend on a small boat….

I hear you but as a Dragonfly owner and compared to other builders, you might draw a conclusion that you get what you pay for in terms of engineering, finish, quality, and resale. I’m hoping we might be able to step up to a 3-4 year old DF36 after I retire in 2028. We love our DF32.

My wife is currently wrapping up a passage from Sweden to England with 59-North on their Farr 65 Falken. She commented to me on her first day on the boat that it did not seem that big compared to her perspective from sailing our DF32. They are currently sailing down the English Channel towards the Channel Islands. Last week, I got a text from her as they beat upwind from the coast of Sweden in 20 knots of wind with reefed mainsail and staysail that I don’t have to worry about her ever wanting a cruising monohull as a steady 20 degrees of heel in 2m seas was getting old. Last week I took a friend out on our boat and he had owned two Beneteau 32’s and he got the feeling visually and physically that he was on a 40’ boat. The beam of a tri can give you that sense of a much bigger boat.

We’ve done a couple of Gulf crossings now on our DF32 in some rough seas and moderately windy conditions (25-30 knots) and properly reefed, she’s felt like a much bigger boat in the way she handled the conditions.

[DragonflyBob]

The debut of the boat at Boot Düsseldorf was impressive. They now have over 20 orders placed. Maybe in four years we can trade up from our 32…………………

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q-J-iMNDqU

[ammrz]

That Dragonfly is probably the best sailboat out there with good stability and moderate size and sail area, usually trimarans can handle a lot more sail area but that brings capsizing risk with high span masts and only two sails reefs. Otherwise this trimaran brings too much cockpit and in the case of reverse pitchpolling created by stern weight after a lateral capsizing momentum, the pointy amas sterns will dig the boat backwards and when the cockpit gets wetted will drag the boat to total capsize

Anybody can built a same trimaran with a donated 30s 1980s abandoned monohull. Only its needed to remove the keel and additional reinforcements that add weight and and add two amas made with strip planking and skin on frame and for example two discarded light poles and the mast for akas outriggers that can be bent and added fabric on frame wing shape

The main hull can be reshaped rather to Grainger style trimaran with plywood cross section CNC cuts and adding and external and interior veneer wooden touch with crude tung oil, just like Barracuda trimaran



The boat will weigh almost the same and added short span free standing rig schooner with light masts that will reduce capsize risk and release wind gusts and depower instantly

[DragonflyBob]

Yes, it’s expensive but it’s also a very impressive piece of kit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0gRgbqeJcM&t=101s