2025 Dufour 37

The hull of the Dufour 37, like her big sistership the Dufour 470, is built using the infusion process for correctly controlled weight, greater strength and respect for the environment. Thanks to optimised volumes and a bow designed for greater volume forward, the Dufour 37 offers a very spacious owner’s cabin at the front, with excellent headroom. Whether the three-cabin or two-cabin version with its large bathroom, the interior of this model is bathed in light thanks to the large central hull windows.

The Dufour 37 benefits from the major innovations that made the Dufour 470 such a success: the bowsprit platform, the large deck hatches and hull windows, and the layout of all the outdoor space that makes it easy to move around on deck. You’ll also enjoy a bigger cockpit than on other yachts of this size.

As for the seakindliness of this yacht, she benefits from a modern and stable hull as you’d see on offshore racing boats, but with a slightly rounded lower hull that favours her passage through the water, while reducing the sound inside the yacht.

This new hull form allows for a greater power/weight ratio for this boat that measures 10.8 metres overall: the feel at the helm is improved and offers more pleasure to the helmsman whatever point of sail you are on.

On this new model, and particularly in comparison with other models in her size category, the mast has been lengthened to give increased sail area and make this yacht even more powerful.

The Dufour 37, like her predecessor the Dufour 360, has a single rudder and twin steering wheels. Thanks to having just one rudder, you’ll enjoy greater responsiveness and liveliness as you are under way.

Construction

Hull: Hand-laminated polyester/glassfibre
Decoration: Decorative stripes on the hull
Gelcoat: NPG Gelcoat with first of cloth impregnated with NPG resin
forming an optimum barrier against osmosis.
Structure: Inner moulded hull bottom, structural framing laminated
to the hull.
Deck: Sandwich construction with injected PVC foam core
Ballast: Keel bolts bear on stainless steel back-plates
Rudder: 2 Semi-elliptical shape, filled with closed cell epoxy foam
Rudder stock: Solid stainless steel
Non-slip deck surface: Diamond point non skid profile on deck

Deck

Hand rails: Wood on cabin roof
Fixed toe rails: Around hull to deck joint
Anchor locker: Self-draining with built-in windlass support and anchor chain eye bolt, lockable hatch cover
Bow pulpits: Open
Stern pulpit: Lifebuoy bracket and opening life-lines with hook
Stanchions: With 2 rows of life-lines
Shroud chainplates: Outboard deck side shroud chainplates
Miscellaneous chainplates: No backstay
Mooring cleats: 4 aluminum
Mooring line protection: 4 stainless steel plates, on hull sheerline
Fuel deck fillers: 1
Water deck fillers: 1
Mainsheet: Mainsheet on cockpit bottom
Genoa track: Self tacking genoa track recessed on coachroof
Vang: With quadruple-purchase tackle and cascade
Through-deck fitting: Stainless steel swan-neck tube for electrical and electronic cables
Deck organizers: 5-sheave deck organizer for halyard, sheet, and reef line returns
Halyard winches: 1 Lewmar size 30 halyard winch on coachroof, to trim self tacking jib, mainsail sheet and halyard
Cleats: Jamcleats port side of the companionway
Furler line jamcleats: 1 at aft end of sidedeck
Hatch covers: Polyester cover forward of companionway

Cockpit

Cockpit bench seats: Antiskid covered
Helmsman’s side seat: Antiskid covered
Lockers: 1 large side locker to stbd with lid with fixing for padlock
Helm: Twin steering wheels leather covered
Engine control: Engine throttle lever and control panel on cockpit
side
Compasses: 1 compass
Instrumentation: On aft end of cockpit coaming (OPT to be picked)
Gas locker: Sealed locker aft, to port
Liferaft locker: Locker in cockpit floor, aft
Shore supply: In stbd helmsman’s seat locker
Cockpit floor: Non-slip polyester cockpit floor
Emergency tiller: Head of rudder stock beneath helmsman’s floor for fitting the emergency tiller

Accommodations

Forward Cabin

Berth: 200 cm approx
Mattress: 10 cm thick foam mattress with washable cover
Stowage: Below berth, 2 hanging lockers with shelf
Water tank: Below berth (160L as option)

Aft Head

WC: Manual sea toilet
Wash-basin: Basin unit with one-piece moulded top
Water: chrome-plated brass single-lever mixer tap and shower head
Drain: Direct, via an electric pump (pack)
Mirror: Large mirror
Ventilation: Via deck hatch
Other: Oil skin space

Saloon

Saloon seats: Large seats on both sides
Table: Saloon table with 2 folding leaves
Stowage:
Under seats and behind backrests
Built in to saloon table
2 top lockers each side
Mast pillar: Stainless steel
Access: To navigation instrument transducers

Galley

Configurations: L-shaped port side
Worktop: ‘Corian®’ synthetic resin with integrated fiddle
Sink: Stainless sink with covers in ‘Corian®’
Water: chrome-plated brass single-lever mixer tap
Gas cooker: 2-burner gas cooker (oven in the pack) on gimbals, with stainless rail
Refrigerator: refrigerator box with sliding storage bins (12 V electric compressor in the pack)
Refrigerator access: Via the worktop
Stowage
2 closed lockers
1 shelf above cooker
Below sink
Under burner
Waste bin: Below sink
Other: Light and ventilation ensured by opening port-lights above galley

Rigging and Sails

Mast: Anodized aluminium with 1 levels of sweptback spreaders
Rigging: 9/10 fractional
Mast stepping: On deck
Lights: 3-colour masthead light + anchor light
Topping lift: Boom topping lift cleat
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, inter and lower shrouds
Backstay: No backstay
Running rigging: Running rigging in pre-stretched textile including: main and genoa halyards, boom topping lift, main and genoa sheets, 2 continuous reef lines, furling line, vang and outhaul

Specifications

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