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Office closed for summer holidays
We are closed for our annual holidays from 23 July to 9 August. We wish all our owners and clients a very happy sumer break and happy sailing.
DF 28 Sport Demonstrator for sale
Our stunning metallic blue DF28 Sport as featured in all the UK magazines is now for sale, at a significant discount over a new build and available for this summer. If you fancy some "multihull magic" during the holidays, please see our For Sale page or contact us for more info
Yachting Monthly Dragonfly 28 boat test in July issue.
The Dragonfly 28 Sport stars on the front cover of the July 2010 issue of Yachting Monthly under the title of "Multihull magic" with a full test report inside. Further superb photos by Joe McCarthy are available on the YM website here and his video taken on the day is here:
Practical Boat Owner August 2010 isssue will include a feature about tralierable trimarans with Dragonfly featuring prominently.
Yachts & Yachting boat test in April 2010 issue.
The popular dinghy and keel boat magazine publish a test report on the Dragonfly 28 by Jeremy Evans, who reports "there’s no doubt this 28ft cruiser will hit 20-plus knots" while it will also "point as high as a performance monohull while footing faster".
The Düsseldorf show is the largest in Europe, spread over 17 halls at the Messe Center! Quorning Boats again had a large stand, with both the DF28 and DF 35 on show with all the latest developments. The boats looked stunning in metallic paintwork and several boats were sold at the show.
In addition to the show, Düsseldorf offers an enjoyable city break with plenty to see around the Altstadt, and easy plentiful low-cost flights from UK regional airports. It's well worth considering a trip for next year.
Southampton Boat Show
Thank you to everyone who visited us during a very busy show. The new Dragonfly 28 Sport received a great reception following another rave review in the October Yachting World magazine, and the entire 2009 production is now sold out. If you are interested in a new DF28 for next season, please don't delay...!
Yachting World tests Dragonfly 28
In an entertaining 6-page test report, Yachting World confirmed this new Dragonfly delivers the expected "astonishing performance". They were equally impressed by the refinements and ease of handling, describing it as "the ultimate versatile performer"
Dragonfly 28 nominated for major award
We are delighted to report that the new Dragonfly 28 has been nominated for the prestigious European Yacht of the Year 2009/2010 awards by the jury of 11 leading yachting journals.
Practical Boat Owner tests Dragonfly 28
The August issue of PBO contains the first UK test report of the new Dragonfly 28 Sport. On a stunning summer's day, we recorded 15kts of boat speed in just 12-13 knots of breeze, leaving many racing dinghies trailing in our wake
Dragonfly 28 tested by Die Yacht
The German 'Die Yacht' magazine published their test report of the Dragonfly 28 under the title "The best cruising yacht?".
Round the Island race 2009
Our Dragonfly 28 Sport had it's UK race debut in the Round the Island Race on 20 June, with designer Jens Quorning on the helm.
As the light NW gradient breeze battled with southerly sea breeze we were becalmed several times, making for testing conditions which favoured low-rated boats. We were the first Dragonfly home in a time of 9 hrs 23min, with only one larger production trimaran finishing ahead. Our corrected time was 4th in class.
Once again, Dragonfly trimarans were by far the best represented in our class, and congratulations to all our crews who persevered to the finish, although you'd perhaps rather not know that the later starters saw 20+ knots of breeze round the back!
Dragonfly 35 test report
Multihull Review magazine now have a test of our Dragonfly 35 Ultimate available to view at multihullreview.co.uk. During the test, we nudged 22 knots on a great day out...
DF920 on BBC2 TV with Richard Hammond
Our Dragonfly 920 demo boat featured on Richard Hammond's new show 'Engineering Connections', originally shown on the National Geographic TV channel, and repeated on BBC2 in February 2009.
The star of BBC's 'Top Gear' clearly enjoyed the DF920, saying"I can't believe the speed of this thing" - from a man used to driving the world's fastest cars!
DF1200 completes circumnavigation
We congratulate Bethsy and Andre Thiry, who have recently finished a sailing around the world onboard their DF1200 "Llevame". Their final destination was Palma de Mallorca.
DF920 first production multi in RTI 2008
In a breezy Round the Island Race 2008 on Saturday 28th June, our new 920 Extreme finished first production boat in the MOCRA class on the water and on handicap.
We crossed tacks with the racing multihulls in our class to Hurst where we were just ahead of Ellen MacArthur's 75ft 'B&Q' trimaran! Round the back of the island with gusts to 28 knots we stretched away to finish 35 minutes ahead of the next cruising multihull. Our elapsed time of 5 hours 10 minutes matched a TP52 Grand Prix monohull with a pro crew of 12+. Pretty good for a 30ft trailerable cruiser with a crew of 3!
Dragonfly 35 awarded European Yacht of the Year 2008
For the second time, Quorning Boats has been awarded the prestigious title of European Yacht of the Year, this time for the Dragonfly 35 in the inaugural Multihull class. These awards are presented at the Düsseldorf Boat Show by a jury comprising of the 11 most respected yachting journals in Europe.
Dragonfly 920 voted amongst the all-time greats
Yachting Monthly have placed the DF920 at 45 in their
list of the 100 Best Boats of the Century (June 06). It was the only production trimaran listed.
They said: "If you could set adrenalin and build a boat out of it the result would be something like this high-performance trimaran. Haul in the sheets, hold tight and enjoy."
