The Dufour 325 By Dufour Yachts

The Dufour Yachts homepage features details on the Dufour 325.

According to Dufour Yachts...

The new Dufour 325 completes the Dufour range of comfortable cruisers from 30 to 53 feet: with a length only 32 feet, she offers an unusual lot of interior space for 6 people to live onboard and sail in full comfort.

Both available with steering wheel or a tiller, she is easy to be sailed and manoeuvred single handed. Standard she comes with a mainsail tackle on the roof, to liberate the full length cockpit seats. Fine tune trimming is possible with a track in the cockpit.

The Dufour 325 has quite a deep standard draft of 1.85 m, ideal for good performance, or she comes with a keel of 1.55 m, for shallower waters.

Source: Dufour Yachts

Blog details journey of 1000 day sea adventure

Two ocean adventurers aboard the Schooner Anne have no plans to step foot on dry land till 2010.

The blog 1000 Days Non-stop at Sea and the site 1000days.net chronicle the journey of Captain Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad on their sailing voyage.

The journey is named The Mars Ocean Odyssey for the relation between the schooner's time at sea and the time it would take a spacecraft to reach the planet Mars.

Stowe and Ahmad have brought provisions to last them the journey, but will restock their food supply with fish they catch along the way.

The blog and website track the Schooner Anne, detailing their life at sea with stories and photos. You can also track the voyage using Google Earth.

Video of the view from the mast of the Mirabella V

YouTube user captelliot posted this video of the view from the mast of Mirabella V, the largest single masted yacht in the world, near the British Virgin Islands.



The view of the islands is majestic, but your vertigo might kick in when the camera is pointed downward towards the boat below. You do not realize how tall the tallest sloop in the world is, till you are looking 300 feet down.

You can learn more about the Mirabella V at www.mirabellayachts.com