Dufour 48 Prestige

Layout / Accommodation

The yacht has a good layout below, a total of eight berths in four cabins.  Full forward is a small double in the forepeak and just behind is the master cabin with bathroom opposite.  There is only one shower onboard in the mid / owner's cabin.  Moving aft into the spacious saloon and fully aft two cabins, each with a head and sink.  No air conditioning but all cabins have 12v fans plus ventilation via opening ports and hatches is good.

Galley

• ENO 2 burner stove and oven (2019)
• Double sink c/w fresh and salt water plus an extra faucet for filtered drinking water
• 12VDC fridge, top loading plus front opening
• 12VDC freezer (under port settee.  This was new in 2021 and has not been used)

Heads

Three manual JABSCO heads.  The forward head has a holding tank selected by Y valve.

Showers

One shower in the forward bathroom.  Hot water from main engine heat exchanger.

Machinery

• VOLVO D75 turbo main engine (installed in 2012 and the yacht was in storage until 2015) (new turbo installed in 2022)
• Bow thruster
• Petrol genset  (2019)
• 230VAC water maker located under bunk in fwd cabin.

Batteries & Electrics

The yacht's AC system is 230VAC and 120VAC, shore power inlet for 120VAC, distribution and cabin outlets.   VICTRON ENERGY 110 / 220 50 amp battery charger.  1 x 220VAC 400 watt inverter.  1 x 220VAC 3000 watt inverter.  1 x 110VAC 1000 watt inverter.

      

The yacht's DC system is 12VDC. Battery monitoring by VICTRON.       

• Batteries;                     
  • 12 volt house bank is 3 x 150 amp AGM batteries (2021)
  • 12 volt emergency bank in cockpit locker is 2 x 55 amp AGM batteries (2018)        
  • 12 volt engine start is 1 x 75 amp AGM battery (2022)
  • 12 volt bowthruster battery is 1 x 90 amp AGM battery (2021)

     

Additional charging capacities from main engine 115 amp alternator, 4 stroke 1800 watt petrol genset and solar panels totaling 550 watts c/w MPPT controller (2021).

     

Automatic electric bilge pumps.

Navigation & Electronics

• RAYMARINE sailing instruments
• RAYMARINE autopilot
• FURUNO 16nm radar
• ICOM VHF radio
• GME AIS transceiver
• RESCUEME EPIRB (2019)
• DELORME InREACH Explorer satellite communicator and GPS navigator

Mast & Rigging

Original factory SPARCRAFT double spreader rig.  Hydraulic backstay adjuster (rod rigging backstay).  Spring loaded boom vang. Spinnaker pole c/w mast track.  This yacht has the factory cutter rig option c/w running backs.  Upper and lower shrouds plus headstay were replaced in 2020.  Oversized wire for worldwide cruising.

Sail Inventory

• Slab reefed mainsail c/w HARKEN bat car system and stackpack (2019)
• Furling genoa (2019)
• Staysail
• Asymmetric spinnaker 150 sqm (2018)

Deck Gear

• Cockpit winches
• Dinghy davits
• Dorade vents
• Granny bars
• Slotted aluminium toe rail

Ground Tackle

• TITAN 1500 watt windlass c/w remote (refurbished 2019)
• 35 kg BRUCE
• 80m of 10mm chain (2020)

Dinghy & Outboard

• ARUBA Model C RIB (2017)
• YAMAHA 5hp (2021)  less than 20 hours use

Covers & Awnings

• Bimini (2019)
• Sprayhood (2019)

Hull and deck

This yacht is the shoal draft version with a wing keel.  The wing keel ensures a low centre of gravity and an identical righting moment to that of the standard keel.

Decks are clean grp and give wide side decks, giving ease of movement around the deck.

A very strong build.. hand laid sandwich construction, high density pvc foam core and the hull has an average thickness of 30mm, to 35mm towards keel.

Safety Gear

• 8 person liferaft from 2016 (last service 2019)
• Flarepack
• 4 fire extinguishers
• 8 life jackets

Care and maintenence

In 2019 in the Philippines all deck hardware was removed and reinstated after painting the decks and topsides.  A new genoa and new mainsail installed.  New bimini and sprayhood.

In 2020 in Malaysia a full top end engine service including manifold removal and cleaning, new head gasket, four new fuel injectors and new stainless steel exhaust elbow.  A new galvanised anchor chain, most running rigging replaced and a new petrol genset.

In 2021 here in Langkawi the boat received new heavy duty upper and lower shrouds, 1x19 ss 12mm and 16mm.  Two new deck filling caps.  New 12VDC freezer.  New batteries totaling 450 amps.  Rudder dropped, new bearings and seals.  New steering cable.  New cutlass bearing.  New CAT high pressure water maker pump and 220VAC electric moror.  New 3000 watt inverter.  New masthead light and deck flood.

History

Originally commissioned for charter in 1996, the yacht was taken into private ownership in 2002 in France and she changed hands again in Marseilles in 2015.  The yacht had her new engine installed in 2012 and she had remained in storage until 2015.  That new owner was a Danish cruiser who spent a year upgrading systems on the yacht before setting off across the Atlantic and into the Pacific.  A considerable refit was done in the Philippines and the yacht set off to Malaysia.  She changed hands after Covid and the new owner has no time to use her hence the yacht is once again offered for sale.

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.