DRAGONFLY Trimarans User Forum

I have noticed when out sailing in company with other DF920s that our boat (#35, a 1998/9 cruising version) appears to sail much flatter than others. Other boats appear to have the amas (swimmers) higher than ours, so that in around 15kt of apparent wind their windward ama is out of the water. On ou...

Christian Thanks for your reply. Looking at the diagram in the user guide, the DF920 appears to have a similar design to your DF800. Your description makes a lot of sense - I had thought you had to remove the pivot pin before you could remove the centreboard, I didn't think that the centreboard woul...

Can anyone describe how to remove the centreboard? We have a DF920, but I guess it should be similar for all DFs. I can see from the User Guide that there is an Allenscrew that has to be removed from underneath, but it is not clear how the pivot pin is then removed. Does it just drop out once the Al...

We have just re-rigged our 920 with new forestay, backstays, diamonds and waterstays for £2175 including VAT, all with dyform rigging wire. We did not replace the lower (rope) part of the running backstays.

The backstay fiddle blocks on our 920 have integral snapshackles, and over time these have distorted. Is it standard for the blocks to be attached using snapshackles? Is there a reason for this? Is there a problem with replacing them with ordinary shackles (we don't plan to trail the boat frequently...