| Sun Fizz 40 | |
| Designer: | Philippe Briand |
| Location: | France |
| Year: | 1980 |
| No Built: | 651 |
| Builder: | Jeanneau |
| Role: | Cruiser |
| Draft: | 6.4feet |
| Displacement: | 160940NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | monohull |
| Construction: | fiberglass |
| Loa: | 40.35feet |
| Lwl: | 33.5feet |
| Beam: | 12.63feet |
| Engine: | Perkins Engines 500NaN0 diesel engine |
| Keel Type: | fin keel |
| Ballast: | 66140NaN0 |
| Rudder Type: | spade-type rudder |
| Rig Type: | Bermuda rig |
| I: | 50feet |
| J: | 13.9feet |
| P: | 45feet |
| E: | 14.3feet |
| Sailplan: | masthead sloop |
| Sailarea Main: | 355square feet |
| Sailarea Headsail: | 183square feet |
| Sailarea Spin: | 1184square feet |
| Sails Other: | genoa 533square feet |
| Sailarea Upwind: | 888square feet |
| Sailarea Downwind: | 1539square feet |
| Successor: | O'Day 39 |
The Sun Fizz 40, or just Sun Fizz, is a French sailboat that was designed by Philippe Briand as a cruiser and first built in 1980.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
The design was developed into the O'Day 39 in 1982 for United States market.[1] [2] [9]
The design was built by Jeanneau in France, from 1980 to 1986, with 651 boats completed.[3] [4] [8] [10] [11] [12]
The Sun Fizz 40 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of polyester fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, two sets of unswept spreaders and aluminum spars with stainless steel 1X19 wire rigging. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or optional stub keel and retractable centerboard. The fin keel version displaces 160940NaN0 and carries 66140NaN0 of iron ballast, while the centerboard-equipped version displaces 170860NaN0 and carries 73850NaN0 of iron ballast.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The keel-equipped version of the boat has a draft of 6.4feet, while the centerboard-equipped version has a draft of 6.33feet with the centerboard extended and 4.25feet with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine of 40or for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .[1] [2] [3] [4]
The design has sleeping accommodation for nine people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, a U-shaped settee around a drop-down table and a straight settee in the main cabin and two aft cabins with a double berths. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is U-shaped and is equipped with a two-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. There are two heads, one just aft of the bow cabin on the port side and one on the starboard side in the aft cabin. Cabin headroom is 780NaN0.[1] [2] [3] [4]
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of 1184square feet.[1] [2]
The design has a hull speed of 7.75kn.[2]
In 2012 the British publication Yachting Monthly used a Sun Fizz 40 in a series of survivability and crash tests.[13]
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