EXCELLENCE CRUISER

You want greater thrills and you want them easily. Performance doesn’t have to be complex.

The search for balance is the primary goal of the Dufour 430. An authentic cruiser with exceptional seafaring qualities, it truly embodies the aspiration of Dufour yachts.

Naturally elegant, it stands out with its sleek hull and slightly higher and rounded rear bilge to contrast with its streamlined hull recess.

The deck is perfectly optimised with easy on-board movement and extensive premium equipment.

The Dufour 430 is designed for those in search of bigger sensations on the water. It guarantees sensational enjoyment during all your sailing experiences.

• Hull: Hand-laminated in polyester/glassfibre.
• Decoration: Decorative stripes on the hull.
• Gelcoat: NPG gelcoat with first mat impregnated with NPG resin forming an optimum barrier against osmosis.
• Structure: Hull bottom counter-moulded, floors laminated into the hull.
• Deck: Sandwich with injected PVC foam core
• Ballast: Keel bolts bear on stainless back-plates
• Rudder: Semi-elliptical shape, filled with closed-cell epoxy foam.
• Rudder stock: Solid stainless steel.
• Non-slip deck surface: Non-slip structured deck surface.

• Hand rails: Solid wood, on coachroof.
• Fixed toe rails: Wooden, at the hull/deck join.
• Anchor locker: Self-draining with built-in windlass support and anchor chain eyebolt, lockable hatch cover.
• Bow pulpits: Seat and separate green/red navigation lights
• Stern pulpits: Lifebuoy bracket, jackstaff bracket, navigation light, and opening life-lines with hook.
• Stanchions: 8 with 2 rows of life-lines.
• Mast foot: Aluminium with halyard return pulleys.
• Other: Solid wooden toe-rail.
• Shroud chainplates: Single chainplate for cap shrouds and lower shrouds.
• Safety chainplates: Safety harness chainplates in cockpit floor
• Chainplates: 2 backstay chainplates
• Midships mooring cleats: 2, aluminium
• Mooring cleats: 4, aluminium.
• Rubbing strips: 6 stainless, on hull sheerline
• Fuel deck fillers: 1
• Water deck fillers: 2
• mainsheet tracks: On coachroof with adjusting car.
• Self tacking jib track.
• Downhaul: With multi-purchase tackle and cascade.
• Pulleys: 1 self tacking jib single sheet return pulleys on roof.
• Through-deck fitting: Stainless swan-neck for electrical and electronic cables.
• Deck organizers: 1 deck organizer for halyard returns.
• Halyard winches: 1 halyard winch on coachroof.
• Jam cleats: 2 rows of jam cleats port / starboard level with the companionway
• Furler line jam cleats: 1 at aft end of side deck
• Hatch covers: Polyester hatch cover forward of the companionway.

• Cockpit bench seats: Teak covered.
• Helmsman’s seat: Teak covered.
• Lockers: 2 large side lockers, lids fitted with struts and fixings for padlocks.
• Helm: Dual helm position, wheels
• Helm console: Polyester.
• Engine control: At starboard helm position
• Compasses: 1 compass at each helm position
• Gas locker: In starboard aft locker
• Stern door: Swings up, with built-in folding stainless bathing ladder
• BIB locker: Life raft stowage in dedicated locker fitted with ram.
• Handrail: In port stern locker, cold water
• Shower: Cold water
• Shore supply: Connector in port stern locker
• Bathing ladder: Folding stainless bathing ladder
• Cockpit floor: Non-slip polyester cockpit floor.
• Emergency tiller: Head of rudder stock beneath helmsman’s floor for fitting the emergency tiller

Forward Cabin

• Berth: 200 × 160 cm approx.
• Mattress: 10 cm thick foam mattress with washable cover.
• Storage:
  - Below berth.
  - Cubby-hole along side of hull.
  - 2 hanging lockers with shelves.
  - Below berth.
  - Bookshelf
  - 2 tidy pockets
• Water tank: Below berth
• Access: To navigation instrument transducers

Forward Head

• WC: Manual sea toilet.
• Wash-basin: Polyester bowl with top in teck.
• Water: Hot and cold water, chrome-plated brass single-lever mixer tap and shower head.
• Drain: Direct, via an electric pump.
• Mirror: Large mirror
• Grating: ‘Corian®’ synthetic resin (std) or teak (option)
• Ventilation: Via deck panel or opening port.
• Cupboards: Storage unit
• Other: Separate shower and toilet

Aft Head

• WC: Manual sea toilet.
• Wash-basin: Wash-basin unit with polyester basin and top in deck.
• Water: Hot and cold water, chrome-plated brass single-lever mixer tap and shower head.
• Drain: Direct, via an electric pump.
• Cupboards: 1 high-level 1-door storage unit with mirror
• Mirror: Large mirror
• Ventilation: Via deck panel or opening port.

Saloon

• Saloon banquette: L-shaped banquette on starboard.
• Central banquette: Fixed central banquette.
• Starboard banquette with 3 doors equipment.
• Table: With fiddles, removable cover with pad for hot dishes.
• Storage:
  - Storage under seats and behind backrests.
  - Built in to banquette
  - Bookshelf above banquette
  - 5 cubby-holes with doors
• Removable fiddles
• Mast foot: Stainless

Aft Cabin

• Berth: 202 × 150 cm approx.
• Mattress: 10 cm thick foam mattress with washable cover.
• Fuel tank: Beneath berth, starboard side.
• Water tank: Beneath berth, port side.
• Storage:
  - Hanging locker with double door with shelf.
  - Cubby-hole along hull liner with fiddle.
• Soundproofing: Double bulkhead provides acoustic and thermal insulation from adjoining engine compartment.
• Technical area: Battery isolator on side of berth

• Configurations: Forward.
• Worktop: ‘Corian®’ synthetic resin with wooden fiddle.
• Sink: Stainless, large bowl with covers, one of which can be used as a chopping board.
• Water: Hot and cold pumped water with chrome-plated brass single-lever mixer tap.
• Gas cooker: 3-burner gas cooker.
• Crockery storage: Dowels to retain crockery when heeling.
• Refrigerators: Stainless steel drawer.
• Waste bin: Sort compartments.

• Mast: Anodized aluminium with 2 levels of swept spreaders
• Rigging: 9/10 fractional
• Mast stepping: On deck
• Lights: Anchor and steaming lights and deck flood.
• Topping lift: Boom topping lift cleats.
• Boom: Anodized aluminium fitted with 2 continuous reefers.
• Furler: Genoa roller furler.
• Standing rigging: Continuous in stainless single-strand cable, chrome-plated bronze rigging screws, comprising: forestay, twin backstay, inter. and lower shrouds.
• Preventer shroud: double
• Running rigging: “Running rigging in pre-stretched textile including: main sail and self tacking jib halyards, boom topping lift, main sail and self tacking sheets, 2 continuous reef lines, leech tensioner, 2 mainsheet car adjustments, furling line, downhaul tackle.”
• Mainsail: 2 wide reef strips, with battens
• Genoa: Furling genoa with UV-protection (Dacron).

The company provides information regarding this vessel in good faith but is not able to guarantee the accuracy of this information or the condition of the vessel. It is the buyer's responsibility to instruct their agents or experts to verify and validate the information of their choice. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale.