This nimble cruiser-racer boasts carbon spars, a fully-battened mainsail
with a fat, rounded roach and a tall, skinny genoa. The 920 is a tri that will
truly expand your cruising range: with speeds of 12 to 20 knots under sail,
the central English Channel becomes just five hours wide. The downside of
this blistering speed is a rather lively motion and a fair amount of spray flying
aft from the bow and lee float. She has a proven record of offshore passage-
making and can creep up shallow creeks with her centreboard hauled up. In
tight spaces, with the floats folded in, she manoeuvres surprisingly well for an
outboard-powered yacht, in part because the engine is linked to the rudder.
Accommodation is modest – some would say cramped – compared to
a 30ft cruising monohull, but she is no stripped-out racer. She lacks full
standing headroom down below and the centreboard casing intrudes into
the narrow main cabin, but there are comfortable bunks for four crew,
a separate heads compartment, seating for six around a permanently
mounted table, a galley with pressurised water and two-burner cooker,
and a fair amount of stowage.

LOA 9.2m (30ft 2in)
LWL 8.75m (28ft 8in)
Beam (max) 6.75m (22ft
2in) Beam (folded) 3.1m
(10ft 2in) Draught 1.6m
(5ft 3in) plate down,
0.45m (1ft 6in) plate up
Displacement 1,800kg
(3,960lb) Class association
www.dragonfly-trimarans.org YM test report
February 2001