Sun Odyssey 29.2
Jeanneau · Jacques Fauroux · 1997
Updated
The Sun Odyssey 29.2 is a 8.48 m displacement racing yacht designed by Jacques Fauroux and built by Jeanneau, first launched in 1997. It races in Class C.
Length
8.48 m
27′ 10″
Beam
2.95 m
Draft
1.39 m
Displacement
2.9 t
Sail area
35 m²
On the podium
Where a Sun Odyssey 29.2 finishes when she goes racing.
1
Wins
1
Seconds
0
Thirds
7
Starts
Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.
Read from 7 starts by 2 boats between 2023 and 2025, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Sun Odyssey 29.2 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
"Κυπελλο Χριστουγεννων"2025- "Ειρηνης & Φιλιας - Βαθυ Μεθανων 2025"2025
- Αγωνας Φθινοπωρου2024
- "Αγ. Νικολαου 2023"2023
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: 2 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 5 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Sun Odyssey 29.2 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
First 28 (5 meetings), Sun Shine 36 (5 meetings), X-332 (5 meetings), Dromor 26 (5 meetings), First 45 (Farr) (5 meetings), Dufour 325 (5 meetings), Dufour 35 (4 meetings), Sun Odyssey 36.2 (4 meetings), Moody 34 (4 meetings), Sun Odyssey 45.1 (4 meetings), X-402 (3 meetings), Elan 45 (3 meetings), Comet 850 (3 meetings), Gib Sea 402 (3 meetings), Gib Sea 312 (3 meetings), Elan 40 (3 meetings), Rush 31 (3 meetings), Dehler 38 (Stadt) (3 meetings), Bavaria 36 (2 meetings), Oceanis 393 (3 meetings), Oceanis 34.1 (2 meetings), First 42 (Farr) (2 meetings), First 38 (5 meetings), First 35 (Berret) (2 meetings), Sigma 33 (2 meetings), Feeling 109 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 37.1 (2 meetings), Hanse 315 (2 meetings), First 32 (2 meetings), Bavaria Match 35 (2 meetings), Salona 37 (1 meeting), Oceanis 40.1 (1 meeting), Elan 34 (1 meeting), Dufour 390 (1 meeting), Grand Soleil 343 (1 meeting), Sun Odyssey 469 (1 meeting)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Sun Odyssey 29.2 has fared against each of them, boat against boat on corrected time. Ordered by how often the two meet, not by who wins.
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
4.39
41°
Beam reach
7.25
90°
Broad reach
7.92
135°
Downwind VMG
6.95
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
This is a boat that wants breeze. On a windy coastal course it is in its element; on a light-air windward-leeward it has to be sailed well to hold on.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on a broad reach in a strong breeze, where it does more than its size and sail area promise, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage on the beam as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
It falls short on the beat in the light stuff, giving away time it never gets back.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Sun Odyssey 29.2
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 2.54 | 3.62 | 4.26 | 4.39 |
| 52° | 3.95 | 5.49 | 6.18 | 6.41 |
| 60° | 4.21 | 5.74 | 6.37 | 6.64 |
| 75° | 4.52 | 6.05 | 6.55 | 7.01 |
| 90° | 4.74 | 6.33 | 6.88 | 7.25 |
| 110° | 4.76 | 6.40 | 7.11 | 7.91 |
| 120° | 4.58 | 6.29 | 7.04 | 8.06 |
| 135° | 4.11 | 5.96 | 6.83 | 7.92 |
| 150° | 3.51 | 5.38 | 6.50 | 7.46 |
| Run VMG | 3.04 | 4.68 | 5.92 | 6.95 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Roughly half carry a folding propeller. Crew weight is declared around 460 kg.
Rigging
Sun Odyssey 29.2 rig and sail dimensions
A Sun Odyssey 29.2 carries 10.07 m of mainsail hoist on a 3.34 m boom, a forestay 10.67 m above the deck and a 3.52 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 4 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 44 to 50 m² depending on bowsprit and set-up. Before ordering a sail, read the figure on your own measurement record rather than the typical one for the design.