1998 Quorning Boats DRAGONFLY 920 — Noirmoutier en l'ile

A 1998 Dragonfly 920 Racing at Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, asking $54,000 through Hellomulti. Quorning's signature is all here: the patented Swing Wing beams that fold the floats aft along the hull, collapsing 22 feet of beam to berth width in under a minute — the trick that carried the Dragonfly 920 through a 168-hull run between 1996 and 2008. Racing was the middle of the run's three specs — longer boom and larger mainsail than the Touring — on the same Danish-built folding 30-footer: drawn to be sailed fast and parked cheaply.

On price the shelf offers no control: this is the only 920 we hold, so there is no sister ask to calibrate against, and the listing carries no condition notes and no time-on-market in our data. Against the folding-tri market the ask is rival money, not bargain money; what it buys over the doors below is waterline and the Danish build, not youth. Whether twenty-eight seasons have been kind is a surveyor's question, and the honest read stops there.

The sharpest comparison is the American folding rival at almost exactly the same money: a 2002 Corsair F28 R, four years newer and two feet shorter, asks $54,900:

Where the appetite runs bigger rather than newer, a 1999 Contour 34 SC in Hudson, Florida puts nearly four more feet of trimaran under you for $65,000:

And Quorning's own ladder has a lower rung: a 1992 Dragonfly 800 at Keyhaven, England — the same Swing Wing idea at 26 feet — asks $27,949:

None of the three carries the 920's particular arithmetic of length, pace and berth fees — this is the one to survey first: