Sun Odyssey 440
Jeanneau · Philippe Briand · 2017
Updated
The Sun Odyssey 440 is a 12.63 m displacement racing yacht designed by Philippe Briand and built by Jeanneau, first launched in 2017. It races in Class B.
Length
12.63 m
41′ 5″
Beam
4.29 m
Draft
2.17 m
Displacement
9.6 t
Sail area
90 m²
On the podium
Where a Sun Odyssey 440 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
25%
of 16 starts by 6 boats
Wins
12%
Read from 16 starts by 6 boats between 2019 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Sun Odyssey 440 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Regata Brindisi-Corfù2026
Kornati Cup2026
"Κυπελλο Χριστουγεννων"2025- "Αγ. Νικολαου 2025"2025
- "Κυπελλο Δεη 2025"2025
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: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
33%
of these races end on the podium
Who she races against
The designs a Sun Odyssey 440 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
Sun Shine 36 (5 meetings), Dufour 365 (5 meetings), Oceanis 361 (Berret/Racoupeau) (7 meetings), First 36.7 (6 meetings), Gin Fizz (4 meetings), Moody 38 (4 meetings), Dufour 40 (5 meetings), Grand Soleil 40 (Paperini) (5 meetings), Bavaria Match 42 (5 meetings), Mumm 36 (5 meetings), Bavaria 31 (5 meetings), First 211 (3 meetings), Sun Odyssey 37.1 (3 meetings), X-35 (4 meetings), X-482 (4 meetings), Oceanis 43 (3 meetings), First 47.7 (3 meetings), Sun Odyssey 410 (3 meetings), Bavaria Cruiser 39 (3 meetings), Dufour 38 (2 meetings), Aquila (2 meetings), Oceanis 41.1 (2 meetings), Discovery 300 (2 meetings), Elan S5 (3 meetings), Sun Odyssey 49 (3 meetings), Farr 39 (3 meetings), Bavaria C45 (3 meetings), Cookson 50 (2 meetings), Millenium 40 (2 meetings), X-50 (2 meetings), Elan E5 (2 meetings), Figaro (Lombard) (2 meetings), Salona 41 (2 meetings), M 37 (2 meetings), Dufour 34 (2 meetings), Dehler 30 OD (2 meetings), X-46 (2 meetings)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Sun Odyssey 440 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
5.66
40°
Beam reach
9.24
90°
Broad reach
10.11
135°
Downwind VMG
8.15
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.
It needs pressure to show what it can do. Give it a fresh day and long legs and it delivers more than it promised; in a drifter it is working uphill.
Where it gains
Its best ground is across the wind when it blows, where it does more than its size and sail area promise, and by a margin worth having.
Where it pays
It falls short to windward in light air, 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 0.8 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 440
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.16 | 4.55 | 5.43 | 5.66 |
| 52° | 4.93 | 6.83 | 7.81 | 8.18 |
| 60° | 5.27 | 7.14 | 8.02 | 8.45 |
| 75° | 5.51 | 7.36 | 8.21 | 8.90 |
| 90° | 5.75 | 7.83 | 8.64 | 9.24 |
| 110° | 5.88 | 8.03 | 9.04 | 10.05 |
| 120° | 5.74 | 7.90 | 8.97 | 10.48 |
| 135° | 5.13 | 7.41 | 8.59 | 10.11 |
| 150° | 4.31 | 6.54 | 8.00 | 9.24 |
| Run VMG | 3.73 | 5.66 | 6.95 | 8.15 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Roughly half carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 860 kg.
Rigging
Sun Odyssey 440 rig and sail dimensions
A Sun Odyssey 440 carries 15.36 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.05 m boom, a forestay 15.19 m above the deck and a 6.00 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 7 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 107 to 144 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.