Dufour 512 Grand Large – Year 2017 General Description

Launched in 2017, this Dufour 512 Grand Large is presented in excellent condition. At the time of purchase by current owner in 2020, the yacht had approximately 60 engine hours and was subject to a full survey, with no defects or issues reported.

The yacht has been regularly hauled out for 5–6 months every year and continuously maintained by the same specialized shipyard, with documented routine and extraordinary maintenance. Mainly used for cruising, with occasional participation in club regattas; winner of the Civitanova–Sebenico 2024, confirming strong sailing performance also in cruiser–racer configuration.

Deck & Exterior

Mast & Rigging

• Aluminium mast and boom

• Dyneema running rigging (upgraded 2023):

  • Gennaker halyard

  • Code Zero halyard (2:1)

  • Mainsail halyard and sheet

  • Genoa sheet

  • Genoa car control lines

• Manual hydraulic backstay

Sails

• North Sails mainsail and headsail (2023)

• Original mainsail and headsail included

• North Sails Code Zero (2021) – excluded from sale price

• Montefusco gennaker with sock – excluded from sale price

Winches

• 4 Lewmar manual winches

• 2 Lewmar electric winches

Navigation & Electronics

• Complete Raymarine navigation suite on dual helm stations, fully renewed in 2020

• Autopilot

• Radar

• AIS

• Electric anchor windlass (counter to be calibrated)

• Jet Bow thruster

• Carbon fiber steering wheels

• VHF

• Wi-Fi radio system

Cockpit & Outdoor Comfort

• Bimini top and sprayhood renewed 2023

• Full cockpit cushions

• Forward coachroof sunbed cushions (3 places) renewed 2025

• Aft coachroof sunbed cushions (2 places) renewed 2025

• Cockpit teak table with double folding leaves, renewed 2025, with freshwater outlet

• Teak side decks extending to the forward deck

• External gas barbecue

• Cockpit refrigerator with mini freezer

• External speakers (2022)

• Hydraulic bathing platform, operated via electric winch

• Carbon folding gangway

• Stainless steel boarding step

Interior & Systems

Engine & Mechanical

• Volvo Penta 75 HP diesel engine – Sail Drive

• Autoprop 3-blade folding propeller

• Annual professional servicing

  • Oil, fuel, air filters and impeller replaced 2025

• Fuel tanks:

  • 220 L starboard (isolatable)

  • 220 L port (isolatable)

Systems

• Air conditioning in 3 zones

• Heating

• Dehumidification

• Hot water boiler

• Seawater pump to washbasins

• Inverter

• Service batteries (4 units) – new 2025

• Engine battery – new 2025

Tanks

• Fresh water: 3 × 200 L

• Black water: 3 independent tanks

Layout

• 3 cabins

• 3 bathrooms

  • Separate shower in owner’s cabin

• Bright and spacious interior volumes

• Taps and mixers replaced (2025)

• All WC pumps replaced (2024)

Galley & Saloon

• Gas stove with oven

• 2 stainless steel refrigerators

• Microwave

• Coffee machine

• Convertible saloon table

• Navigation/chart table

Tender & Safety

• Tender 2.50 m (2024)

• 4 HP outboard engine

• 6-person liferaft, serviced 2025

Broker’s Notes

Well-maintained yacht with extensive upgrades, ready to sail, ideal for owner cruising with excellent comfort, equipment level, and proven sailing performance.

• Hull: Hand-laminated in polyester/glassfibre; sides made from vacuum-bonded foam core sandwich.
• Decoration: Grey
• 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

• Shroud chainplates: Chainplates on hull sides
• Safety chainplates: Safety harness chainplates in cockpit floor
• Miscellaneous chainplates: 2 backstay chainplates
• Midships mooring cleats: 2, aluminium
• Mooring cleat: 4, aluminium.
• Rubbing strips: 6 stainless, on hull sheerline
• Fuel deck fillers: 2
• Water deck fillers: 3
• Mainsheet tracks: On coachroof with adjusting car.
• Genoa tracks: 2 genoa sheet tracks, plunger-adjustable low-lead cars
• Downhaul
• Through-deck fitting: Stainless swan-neck for electrical and electronic cables
• Deck organizers: 2 deck 4-sheave organizers for halyard, sheet, and reef line returns.
• Halyard winches: 2 halyard winches on coachroof.
• Sheet winches: 2 genoa sheet winches at helm positions
• Jamcleats: 2 rows of jamcleats port / starboard level with the companionway
• Furler line jamcleats: 1 at aft end of sidedeck
• Hatch covers: Sliding companionway hatch in Plexiglas®

• Cockpit bench seats: Teak covered.
• Helmsman’s seat: Teak covered.
• Lockers: 1 large side locker to Stbd with strut-assisted closing and fixing for padlock.
• Helm: Wheel diameter 900 mm
• Helm console: Polyester.
• Engine controls: At starboard helm position
• Compasses: 2 on columns
• Instrumentation: Port and Stbd helm positions
• Gas locker: Under port helmsman’s seat
• Stern door: Opens in centre by swinging up
• BIB locker: Under floor, Stbd helm position
• Tender locker: Under floor, port helm position
• Handrail: Stainless, on cockpit table

• Configurations: Front galley
• Worktop: ‘Corian®’ synthetic resin with wooden fiddle.
• Sink: Stainless steel bowl sink in stbd module
• Water: Hot and cold pumped water with brushed stainless single-lever mixer tap.
• Gas cooker: 3-burner gas cooker with oven and grill, on gimbals, with stainless hand rail in port module
• Crockery storage: Dowels to retain crockery when heeling.
• Refrigerators: 12 V refrigerator with stainless steel drawers
• Port module
• Storage: 5 cubby-holes to port and 4 cubby-holes to stbd, under floor.
• 220 V microwave oven: In stbd hull cubby-hole (option)
• Pump:  Sea-water pump built-in under floor to stbd
• 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.
• Topping lift: Boom topping lift cleats.
• Boom: Anodized aluminium fitted with 2 continuous reefers.
• Roller-furler: Genoa roller furler.
• Standing rigging: Continuous in stainless single-strand cable, chrome-plated bronze rigging screws, comprising: forestay, backstay bridle with twin rigging screws, inter and lower shrouds.
• Backstay: double
• Running rigging: “Running rigging in pre-stretched textile including: main and genoa halyards, boom topping lift, main and genoa sheets, 2 continuous reef lines, leech tensioner, 2 mainsheet car adjustments, furling line, downhaul tackle.
• Mainsail: 2 wide reef strips, with battens and bag.
• Genoa: Furling genoa with UV-protection.

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. 

5% commission will be charged to the buyer.