Sun Way 27

The Sun Way 27 is a French sailboat that was designed by Philippe Harlé as a cruiser and first built in 1987.

The design is a development of the 1981 Fantasia 27, with different portlights, lighter displacement and optimized for cruising.

Production
The design was built by Jeanneau in France, starting in 1987, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Sun Way 27 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig. The hull has a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 5027 lb and carries 1936 lb of ballast.

The boat has a draft of 5.00 ft with the standard keel and is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar diesel engine for docking and maneuvering.

The design has a hull speed of 6.21 kn.