FIRST SONG

Dufour 41 — Croatia The Dufour 41 opens a new chapter in the Vintage line: more light, more contemporary detailing, and a handful of genuine innovations, without losing what has always defined the yard's boats. The result is a yacht that feels bigger than her numbers suggest — circulation is thought through, so moving from cockpit to companionway to foredeck happens without negotiation. Below, three cabins each receive a double bed, accommodating up to eight guests. The layout is straightforward and honest: private spaces that work, rather than a catalogue of ambitions squeezed into forty-one feet. Under sail she is solid and quick-witted, the kind of hull that shortens a passage rather than merely surviving it — well suited to the Dalmatian coast, where the run between islands is short but the meltemi-adjacent afternoon breeze rewards a boat that holds her line. Croatia is the cruising ground here: Split and the Kornati, the channels behind Hvar and Vis, anchorages reached in an afternoon and left the next morning. A yacht sized for exactly that rhythm.