2015 Quorning Boats Dragonfly 28 Touring — Germany » Starnberger See »

A 2015 Dragonfly 28 Touring, asking $129,600. Quorning Boats has been folding trimarans into monohull berths for decades, and the swing-wing system is the Danish yard's signature on this hull: 21.3 ft of beam under sail, around eight once the floats swing aft, so a boat that sails flat in the double digits still fits an ordinary slip. The 28 arrived in 2008 as the yard's mid-size model, and Touring names the cruising half of the pair — the shorter rig and the full interior on a hull still light enough for fingertip control. The Sport carries a taller rig on the same platform; this one was drawn for passages, not podiums.

At $129,600 it is the cheaper of the two Dragonfly 28s on our trimaran shelf, and by a wide margin — the only sister we hold, a 2014 in Chichester, asks $166,374, some $36,800 more for a year less. Against the rest of the folding fleet it sits mid-field: clear of the 2002 and 2009 Corsair F28 Rs at $54,900 and $78,840, under the 2021–2022 boats asking $179,000 and up. A gap that wide is a question for the survey, not a verdict from us — we have not seen the boat, and the listing carries no broker and no time-on-market to read.

The benchmark is that Chichester boat, the only other Dragonfly 28 we hold:

Where the instinct is newer rather than cheaper, the 2021 Corsair 880 is the American take on the same folding idea — six years younger for $49,400 more:

And where it is more boat for less money, the same yard's 1998 Dragonfly 920 in Noirmoutier trades seventeen years of age for a 30-foot platform at $54,000, under half this asking:

But a folding cruiser to a Danish finish, and the cheaper of the two Dragonflys we hold — this is the one to survey first: