WHICH WAY — ITA 17063
Model: Sun Odyssey 40
Updated
WHICH WAY (ITA 17063) is a Sun Odyssey 40 designed by Daniel Andrieu and built by Jeanneau. She has been racing since 2023 and has won five races. She sails with a smaller sail plan and a shallower keel than most Sun Odyssey 40s. Against a typical Sun Odyssey 40 she is slower upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats29
Race starts
5
Wins
24%
Podiums
2
Race Edge
Sun Odyssey 40: 33
605.5s/mile
Rating 2025
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
11.71 m
38′ 5″
Beam
3.94 m
Draft
1.96 m
Displacement
7.3 t
Sail area
78 m²
On the podium
Where WHICH WAY finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
24%
of 29 starts · Sun Odyssey 40 fleet: 7%
Wins
17%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with WHICH WAY on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
54° Campionato Invernale Vela d'Altura del Golfo di Napoli20265391
53° Campionato Invernale d'Altura del Golfo di Napoli2025101412131514141
Campionato Invernale Vela d'Altura del Golfo di Napoli2023–2411387111141
Campionato Invernale Vela d'Altura del Golfo di Napoli2022–2316610462451
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Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat.
Round the buoys
21%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 5 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats WHICH WAY meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Show more rivals (20)
Other competitors (25)
Met too few times for a figure.
VOLVER (Dufour 350, 5 meetings), BLUES (Comet 36, 4 meetings), PAPERISSIMA (Duck 31, 4 meetings), BLUE MARLIN II LE PRINC (Feeling 446, 4 meetings), MC.KERON (Comet 285, 4 meetings), ALCOR V (First 47.7, 2 meetings), LA DARDOLA (Ziggurat 995, 2 meetings), LAURA (Salona 34, 1 meeting), FRITTATINA ANCORA (Hanse 350, 1 meeting), GABA (J/70, 1 meeting), GULLIVER (J/22, 1 meeting), JEKO 3 (J/70, 1 meeting), PESTIFERA (J/22, 1 meeting), LAMU (J/22, 1 meeting), ARTIGLIO (J/22, 1 meeting), TEESPERA (First Class 8, 1 meeting), MAHARABBA (J/22, 1 meeting), FRITTATINA (Meteor, 1 meeting), LES ALIZES (J/22, 1 meeting), MARGOT (J/22, 1 meeting), ZODIACO (Este 24, 1 meeting), H2O (Blusail 24, 1 meeting), SPARVIERO (J/24, 1 meeting), ALBEN (Meteor, 1 meeting), LIBERA (Grand Soleil 343, 1 meeting)
How WHICH WAY compares with a typical Sun Odyssey 40
Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Sun Odyssey 40s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Sun Odyssey 40; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.6 kn either way.
At 10 knots she gives away time to a typical Sun Odyssey 40 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
WHICH WAY in blue, a typical Sun Odyssey 40 dashed.
WHICH WAY in blue, a typical Sun Odyssey 40 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Sun Odyssey 40s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Sun Odyssey 40
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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