Dufour 455 Grand Large

Additional Information/Updates

Antal adjustable genoa cars 2019
All standing rigging replaced May 2020
Lazybag and lines 2021
Running rigging replaced including dyneema halyards for main and genoa.
Sail drive seal and prop shaft seals replaced Feb 2022
Stainless steel exhaust elbow fitted Feb 2022
Rudder bearings replaced 2023
New windlass battery 2024
New leisure batteries installed 2024 - 5 x 110ah
New starter battery installed 2024
80w solar panel and MPPT charge controller 2024
New raw water pump 2024
New diesel heater / water heater installed 2025
Reinforced bow fitting to allow for asymmetric cruising chute to be flown.
8 fenders and all warps are included.
Gas locker is large enough for 2 x 7 kg calor butane bottles.
All navigation lights converted to LED
All cabin lights converted to LED including some red/white for night passaging.

Owners comments

Kamina 7 is a fast, safe and very comfortable cruising yacht with plenty of space to live on board. The forward cabin with its king sized double berth and ensuite heads is extremely comfortable. We have sailed her for the past 9 years, travelling as far south as Baiona Spain, north up the Irish Sea to the west cost of Scotland and most places in between. Kamina 7 has a very generous amount of locker space with room for storage of everything that you want/need to go cruising.

The reliable ST60/6002 navigation & autopilot system is integrated with a touch screen ES7 plotter at the helm which makes passage planning and course keeping extremely easy. She is also fitted with a Digital Yacht AIS transponder.

Close quarters manoeuvring is aided by the powerful retractable bow thruster.


The electric halyard winch makes light work of raising the main sail or furling the large genoa.
Kamina 7 is maintained in top ready to sail condition.

Interior

• All joinery work is finished in prime choice Moabi mahogany, with fiddles, mouldings and framings in solid wood.
• Cabin doors have a blocking system in order to keep them open where necessary.
• Soles are in Moabi laminated floor boards.
• Saloon cushions and mattress fabrics have removable covers.
• The upper cabin linings are in Moabi wood, the bottom in cream coloured vinyl.

Cockpit

• Teak trimmed seats and sole.
• Two large side lockers with lids fitted with padlock hasps.
• GRP steering pedestals.
• Rudder stock head under helmsmans sole for installing the emergency tiller.
• Engine lever and control panel easily to hand for the helmsman on the starboard side.
• Transom open in centre with a tipping helmsmans seat giving access to the swim/ boarding platform.
• Gas cylinder locker in aft port seat.
• Life raft stowage in dedicated locker under helmsman seat.
• Cockpit shower in aft locker.
• Folding stainless steel bathing ladder.

Galley

• Longitudinal shaped galley with large Corian worktop.
• Double stainless steel sink.
• Chrome plated brass mixer tap for pressurised water.
• Cooker - three burner stove with oven and grill on gimbals.
• Icebox with minimum capacity 100 litres.
• 12V electric refrigerator unit (150 litres).
• Stowage boxes, with separated compartments.
• Cutlery drawer and PVC stowage baskets.
• Upper cabinets, one of which can house a microwave oven.
• Crumb tray under sole.

Mechanical

• Volvo 75hp with Sail-drive transmission.
• Heat exchanger, anti-siphon valve.
• Large capacity sea water strainer.
• Control panel close to helmsman with hour meter, engine stop and tachometer.
• Alternator with battery isolator.
• Fuel tank gauge on electrical switchboard.
• Fuel filter with water separator.
• Emergency fuel shutoff handle.
• Engine room ventilation blower, and two ventilation hoses.
• Two-blade folding propeller.
• Access to the engine from front and both sides.
• Independent engine bilge.
• Quality sound proofing using high density foam.

Deck Equipment

• Teak handrails on coachroof. Wooden toerail.
• Self-draining chain locker with eye bolt and integrated windlass bracket, lid with locking bolt.
• Stemhead fitting anchor roller.
• Pulpit with wooden step and separate green/red navigation lights.
• Pushpits with horseshoe buoy bracket, flag pole holder, navigation light, and opening cable gate with hook.
• Stanchions with two levels of life line.
• Six aluminium mooring cleats.
• Single stainless steel chainplate for cap shrouds/aft lower shrouds.
• Two chainplates for the backstay.
• Two deck fillers, one water and one for fuel.
• Mainsheet track on and adjustable traveller on coachroof.
• Boom vang.
• Genoa sheet tracks with piston lead blocks.
• Genoa sheet turning blocks on coaming.
• 8 sheave deck organizers for halyard returns, mainsail sheet and reefing lines.
• Stainless steel swan neck electric/electronic cable gland.
• Two x four clutches on coachroof.
• Two x 44.2 ST halyard winches on the roof (one electric).
• Two x 53.2 ST genoa winches on coamings close to the helmsman.

Construction

• Hand laminated GRP hull with Twaron reinforcements at keel area.
• The NPG gelcoat (the first layer of cloth is impregnated with NPG resin) forms an optimum barrier against osmosis.
• Inner moulded hull bottom, structural grid laminated to the hull.
• Hull portlights in the saloon.
• Deck in Balsa core sandwich, made by Infusion process.
• Draft 2.0m, cast iron keel, bolt loads taken up by stainless steel backing plate.
• Semi-elliptical rudder, filled with closed cell epoxy foam.
• Stainless steel, solid stock.

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.