Dehler 38vsDufour Grand Large 390
Dehler against Dufour · used asking prices, listed in Europe and the US
At the same age, the Dufour Grand Large 390 asks 12% less than the Dehler 38; on the headline Gauge Values it asks 7.4% more, which mixes ages: its boats are younger (median build year 2020 against 2019). Neither has a published depreciation curve yet, so we can't say which holds its value better.
same age · 6 shared build years · 10 and 13 boats in them · Indicative · in today’s prices · asking, not sold
Head to head
The better figure on each line is in orange. Where either side has too few boats, we say so rather than pick a winner.
Year by year
Each build year's Gauge Estimate, for the 6 years both have boats in. Pooled across those years (10 and 13 boats), the Dufour Grand Large 390 asks 12% less than the Dehler 38.
What your budget buys
At £175,000 your money buys 2 years newer in the Dufour Grand Large 390: a 2020 against a 2018.
A year of ownership
Each at its Gauge Value, on a South Coast marina berth, 44 engine hours a year (the median of 103 UK-listed sailing boats that report hours). An estimate in pounds from published rates, not a quote.
Each line is the middle of the cited range, to the nearest fifty pounds. Depreciation is a year of age on each model's published curve, at its Gauge Value, and stays out of the totals.
Neither model has a published depreciation curve, so depreciation is withheld on both sides.
Sources: Lake Yard price list 2026 · BerthFinder · Boatsetter · Velos Insurance; Admiral Yacht Insurance · Boating Magazine, "Calculating Boat Fuel Consumption" · Littlehampton Marina fuel prices
Specification
Questions
Which is cheaper, the Dehler 38 or the Dufour Grand Large 390?
At the same age the Dufour Grand Large 390 is cheaper: the Dufour Grand Large 390 asks 12% less than the Dehler 38 across 6 shared build years. Their Gauge Values, the median asking prices of all the boats we observed whatever their age, are £168,500 and £181,000.
Which holds its value better?
We can't say yet: neither has a published depreciation curve, and we fit one from at least 20 boats across six build years and publish it only when the fit holds. We have 15 Dehler 38 boats across 11 build years. We have 14 Dufour Grand Large 390 boats across 7 build years.
Which spends less time on the market?
Boats of the Dehler 38 had been listed a median of 438 days when we last saw them, against 304 days for the Dufour Grand Large 390. That is time listed so far, not time to sell, which we don't measure yet. 0% of the Dehler 38 boats we saw 14 or more days apart cut their asking price, against 25% of the Dufour Grand Large 390 boats.
How do you compare them like for like?
We compare boats of the same build year. For each of the 6 years both models have boats in, we take the ratio of their median asking prices in today's prices, then pool the years, giving more weight to years with more boats on both sides. The figure is Indicative because the thinner side has 10 boats in those years. The Gauge Values compare the whole fleets instead, so they mix boats of different ages.