Sailboat charter in Kos · Dufour Yachts 460 Gl (2016)

Clean and comfortable boat alive in port when you get back there every night. The sails are new and the powerful engine is relatively silent. On the other hand, the qualifier Grand Large is misleading. No independent source of energy, for a windy night at sea you have to run the engine simply to power the pilot and the instruments (fridge off). There is no AIS, whereas a simple receiver module that can be interfaced with the Raymarine system costs €289 including tax at AD. Is this really unreasonable on a boat of this size and this price, it is still an important safety element. To return to port it is better to avoid the dangles (not easy in the Mediterranean) for lack of a bow thruster. We had 30 knots of established wind in the mouths of Bonifaccio. The boat was going well upwind but with the main mains reduced to the max (2 reefs) and less than half the GSE. What happens if the wind picks up another 5 or 10 knots, the leak? In short, the boat is not up to its size and price for offshore sailing. I imagine that customers who go from port to port most often under motor are satisfied with it, not those who are considering the "Grand Large"