Dufour 530
Dufour · Umberto Felci · 2023
Updated
The Dufour 530 is a 15.23 m displacement racing yacht designed by Umberto Felci and built by Dufour, first launched in 2023. It races in Class A.
Length
15.23 m
50′ 0″
Beam
4.91 m
Draft
2.06 m
Displacement
17.6 t
Sail area
126 m²
On the podium
Where a Dufour 530 finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
1
Starts
Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.
Read from 1 start by 1 boat between 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Dufour 530 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Regata Brindisi-Corfù2026
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: no races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Dufour 530 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Met too few times for a figure:
Oceanis 393 (1 meeting), Bavaria Cruiser 39 (1 meeting), Bavaria 40 (1 meeting), Sun Odyssey 42 (Lombard) (1 meeting), Baltic 43 (1 meeting), Marchi 39 (1 meeting), Show 34 (1 meeting), First 40.7 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 46 (Jézéquel) (1 meeting), Sun Odyssey 43 (1 meeting), Sun Odyssey 51 (1 meeting), Hanse 430 (1 meeting), Elan 37 (1 meeting), Dehler 34 (Judel/Vrolijk) (1 meeting), Comet 36 (1 meeting), Bonin 358 (1 meeting), Dufour 34 (1 meeting), Bavaria Match 38 (1 meeting), Sun Odyssey 44 (Briand) (1 meeting)
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
5.98
40°
Beam reach
9.88
90°
Broad reach
10.27
135°
Downwind VMG
8.48
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
This one is at home going to windward. Windward-leeward courses give it more of what it is good at than a coastal race does.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on the beam in a strong breeze, where it outruns what it looks like on paper, and by a margin worth having.
Where it pays
It falls short on a broad reach in a strong breeze, giving away time it never gets back. That is a displacement hull working to its designed speed.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.8 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Dufour 530
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.54 | 4.98 | 5.64 | 5.98 |
| 52° | 5.60 | 7.60 | 8.30 | 8.68 |
| 60° | 6.08 | 7.97 | 8.64 | 8.98 |
| 75° | 6.49 | 8.30 | 9.00 | 9.41 |
| 90° | 6.49 | 8.41 | 9.18 | 9.88 |
| 110° | 6.27 | 8.41 | 9.37 | 10.43 |
| 120° | 5.98 | 8.23 | 9.29 | 10.60 |
| 135° | 5.30 | 7.68 | 8.94 | 10.27 |
| 150° | 4.44 | 6.74 | 8.26 | 9.41 |
| Run VMG | 3.84 | 5.84 | 7.17 | 8.48 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 570 kg.
Rigging
Dufour 530 rig and sail dimensions
A Dufour 530 carries 19.32 m of mainsail hoist on a 6.00 m boom, a forestay 19.50 m above the deck and a 7.00 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 2 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails