2017 QUORNING BOATS DRAGONFLY 28 PERF — Bretagne SUD

The value pick of the Dragonfly 28 market: a 2017 Performance — the tall-rig version — lying in south Brittany, asking $199,800 through Atout Nautisme. Same model, same folding geometry and same Danish build as the 2022 boat at Noirmoutier asking $237,600; the delta is five model years and thirty-eight thousand dollars, and nothing else on the spec sheet.

Seven-year-old Dragonflys are the sweet spot of the line: young enough that the rig and sails are on their first life, old enough that the first owner has absorbed the depreciation a Dragonfly ever allows — which is famously little. A 2018 sistership asks the same $199,800, so this is not a distressed price; it is simply what the model costs, twice confirmed.

Folded to 8.3 feet she tows road-legal, which puts the whole French Atlantic coast — and anywhere else a car goes — inside a weekend's range; the rest of her kind assembles on the trailerable-trimarans shelf. Survey attention goes where it always goes on a folding tri: aka pivots, bushings, and the daggerboard case after any hard grounding. Quorning support from the yard in Denmark remains famously good, which is a real line item in what you're buying.