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The Dufour 310 is a surprise. At a time when cruising yachts are getting bigger and bigger, when 50 feet plus is normal in charter operations, when it is no longer worth building anything smaller than ten metres due to a supposed lack of margins, the French shipyard is doing just that: expanding its product range downwards.
Until now, the French company's entry-level model, the Dufour 335, measured just under ten metres. With a hull length of 9.35 metres, the new model is two feet shorter. And it should offer hardly any less.
The 310 is part of the shipyard's Grand'Large series, which loosely translates as "grand voyage". But you can also take it literally, because the little one certainly looks big, wide and open.
Read in the current issue of YACHT 7/2014 how designer Umberto Felci managed to turn it into a space miracle and how it performed under sail.
