DRAGONFLY Trimarans User Forum

I made a 70 cm deep rudder for my DF920 to make sailing in the shallow water better possible. I sail a lot at the Waddensea in the North of the Netherlands, what is shallow water in general and is dry at low-tide. At least two persons have asked me about this rudder and here a post to share all my i...

I had for 12 years a 800. About every year I lowered the mast myself ones or twice. Can be single handed. I fully applied the instruction from Quorning (mast goes forward, boom is the long lever arm, you block the mast rotation with the standard pin at the bottom of the mast). I did this for winter ...

Hi MJF, I never had problems with storage with the mast up. We have had winds up to 11 Bft. But I have to say that the harber at the parkinglot is protected with some trees, depending of the directions. You can fixate the boat with some lines to the trailer and I always used 4 poles at the edges. Th...

Nice that this topic is active after 6 years. Sorry, but I don't have the diagram anymore. But you are right about the way it is constructed. The PVC cloth is folded around the polyester pole, with some glue to fixate the cloth together (you have special soft PVC glue). Then two PVC strips, one at e...

Hi Dirk, I ordered early 2006 new genua for my DF800CR of 1993 at Arjen Kooy in Haarlem in the Netherlands. He is specialist in tri and cat sails. A small sailmaker who goes for quality and was a lot cheaper then the original sailmaker Elvstrom. I got the adress of the Dutch DF representative André ...

Hi Anybody got ideas/drawings/photos for a sun/rain tent covering most of the boat? Christian Hi Christian, I made one year ago a full cover over my DF800. It survived winterstorm of 10Bft in an half open harbour in the North of the Netherlands. I use it for covering in the harbour and when on the ...