Sun Odyssey 54
Jeanneau · FAUROUX/GARRONI · 2004
Updated
The Sun Odyssey 54 is a 16.38 m displacement racing yacht designed by FAUROUX/GARRONI and built by Jeanneau, first launched in 2004. It races in Class A.
Length
16.38 m
53′ 9″
Beam
4.88 m
Draft
2.29 m
Displacement
17.3 t
Sail area
127 m²
On the podium
Where a Sun Odyssey 54 finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
1
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 1 start by 1 boat between 2021, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Sun Odyssey 54 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Regata Brindisi-Corfù2021
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
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Not enough data yet: 1 race over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Sun Odyssey 54 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Met too few times for a figure:
First 31.7 (1 meeting), Oceanis 43 (1 meeting), Dufour 350 (1 meeting), Comet 33 (1 meeting), First 36.7 (1 meeting), Sun Odyssey 36 (1 meeting), X-35 (1 meeting), X-412 (1 meeting), Bavaria Cruiser 39 (1 meeting), Comet 105 (1 meeting), Show 34 (1 meeting), Elan 410 (1 meeting)
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
6.14
40°
Beam reach
9.94
90°
Broad reach
10.18
135°
Downwind VMG
8.36
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. 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 on the beam in a strong breeze, where it goes better than its measurements say it should, and by a margin worth having.
Where it pays
It falls short cracked off when it blows, giving away time it never gets back. That is a displacement hull working to its designed speed.
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 1.0 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 54
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.32 | 4.82 | 5.75 | 6.14 |
| 52° | 5.22 | 7.33 | 8.36 | 8.82 |
| 60° | 5.68 | 7.74 | 8.66 | 9.12 |
| 75° | 6.08 | 8.07 | 8.96 | 9.53 |
| 90° | 6.07 | 8.23 | 9.20 | 9.94 |
| 110° | 5.90 | 8.24 | 9.34 | 10.55 |
| 120° | 5.67 | 8.06 | 9.23 | 10.57 |
| 135° | 5.01 | 7.45 | 8.86 | 10.18 |
| 150° | 4.20 | 6.50 | 8.12 | 9.42 |
| Run VMG | 3.63 | 5.62 | 7.04 | 8.36 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 880 kg.
Rigging
Sun Odyssey 54 rig and sail dimensions
A Sun Odyssey 54 carries 18.01 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.80 m boom, a forestay 20.12 m above the deck and a 6.24 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 2 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 143 to 172 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.