Review of Dufour 1300
Basic specs.
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The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.
The Dufour 1300 is equipped with a masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.
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The keel is made of iron. Many people prefer lead keel in favour of iron. The main argument is that lead is much heavier than iron and a lead keel can therefore be made smaller which again result in less wet surface, i.e. less drag. In fact iron is quite heavy, just 30% less heavy than lead, so the advantage of a lead keel is often overstated.
The boat can enter most marinas as the draft is just about 1.50 - 1.60 meter (4.92 - 5.22 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.
Sailing characteristics
This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.
The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level.
The immersion rate for Dufour 1300 is about 128 kg/cm, alternatively 720 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 128 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm.
Alternatively, if you load 720 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.
Sailing statistics
This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.
What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?
The l/b ratio for Dufour 1300 is 2.75.
The ballast ratio for Dufour 1300 is 44%.
Maintenance
Dimensions of sail for masthead rig.
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If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.
| Usage | Length | Diameter | ||
| Mainsail halyard | 22.6 m | (74.0 feet) | 8 mm | (5/16 inch) |
| Jib/genoa halyard | 22.6 m | (74.0 feet) | 8 mm | (5/16 inch) |
| Spinnaker halyard | 22.6 m | (74.0 feet) | 8 mm | (5/16 inch) |
| Jib sheet | 7.3 m | (23.9 feet) | 10 mm | (3/8 inch) |
| Genoa sheet | 7.3 m | (23.9 feet) | 10 mm | (3/8 inch) |
| Mainsheet | 18.2 m | (59.6 feet) | 10 mm | (3/8 inch) |
| Spinnaker sheet | 16.0 m | (52.5 feet) | 10 mm | (3/8 inch) |
| Cunningham | 2.5 m | (8.2 feet) | 8 mm | (5/16 inch) |
| Kickingstrap | 5.0 m | (16.4 feet) | 8 mm | (5/16 inch) |
| Clew-outhaul | 5.0 m | (16.4 feet) | 8 mm | (5/16 inch) |
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