Dufour 455 GRAND LARGE - SOLD - Mark Cameron Yachts - Specialist Sail and Motorboat Brokerage

Friday 21st May 2021

Mark Cameron Yachts are delighted to announce the successful sale of the Dufour Grand Large 455 ‘ESSENESS’.

The Dufour Grand Large series are the French builders cruising orientated designs. Umberto Felci; responsible also for Dufours Performance range of yachts, has taken his Italian flair and the striking lines of the performance designs, tweaking the hull and rig dimensions to suit the cruising sailor. The Grand Large yachts feature generally deeper hulls with fuller sections forward and aft, increasing the internal volume and available living space. With slightly shorter rigs and keels than their performance counterparts the GL series is a family orientated boat ideal for spending longer periods aboard.

ESSENESS is a one-owner example of the Dufour Grand Large 455 Arpege, featuring as the Southampton Boatshow boat in 2005. She features the 3-cabin layout with en-suite master cabin forward and twin double aft cabins. Providing a generous living space below decks she also features a spacious cockpit with walk-thru transom. Her current owners have operated her as a highly successful skippered charter business around the west coast of Scotland until 2019. Now retiring from life afloat ESSENESS is offered with a comprehensive inventory, highlights of which include:

Epoxy coated hull with copper coat antifouling
Teak decks and cockpit
Optional Volvo Penta D2-75 inboard diesel engine
Volvo Penta 150S Sail Drive – Diaphgram replaced 2018.
240VAC-12VDC Battery charger
Solar Panel
Holding Tank
Jabsco manual marine toilets
Raymarine Instrumentation and plotter
Icom standalone AIS transponder
Icom DSCVHF
3 burner galley stove
Fridge and coolbox
Harken deck gear and winches
New standing rigging fitted in 2018
New forestay and Selden 304s roller reefing gear 2016
Slab reefing mainsail
Mainsail and Roller Reefing genoa replaced 2016
Strom Jib
Cruising Chute
Electric windlass
Tender
Liferaft

Handed over to her new owners afloat, in commission and ready to sail away she is already on passage to her new home at James Watt Dock Marina on the Clyde. We wish her new owners fair winds, calm seas and perhaps even some dry weather…… for her delivery trip.