If there is anybody here seriously looking for a fast cruising yacht and has $50k or more to spend, look no further.
"Sun Burst" is one of those legendary Peterson alloy 40 odd footers of late 70s, early 80s vintage and designed around the IOR 2 ton rating rule.
Several are veterans of Sydney-Hobart and Admirals Cup races and Doug Peterson was one of the chief designers for the Yank's Americas Cup yachts.
These great yachts varied in length from 40 to 44 feet and I am told that no two of them had exactly the same hull shape.
Among them were "Inch By Winch", "High Roler", "Battle Star", "Big Schott" and "Envy II" which bitch I owned for 6 years.
Affectionately referred to as "Flat Toppers", they are characterised by multiple winches on deck that appear to be breeding. Unfortuneately most of them were fitted with Barlow winches with alloy drums, which, if you wired them up you could probably run your lights off.
The weight saving of the alloy drums was marginal in the overall scheme of things and all stainless Anderson winches would have been a better option.
Some were fitted with hydraulic vang, back, fore and baby stay tensioners with which one could torture and often break the mast. Break the mast you might but the hulls are near unbreakable.
The original owner of Envy II drove her onto a reef at 8.5 knots and she barely suffered a scratch.
Many are fearful of alloy hulls but built properly I believe it is the best of boat building materials.
Sun Burst is for sale at $45,000 and if I did not already have a Van De Stadt 34 and an S&S 34 (neither of which are seaworthy at present), I would buy Sun Burst in a flash (pardon the pun).
If anybody is seriously interested but does not have full funding, I would consider a provisional partnership.
Here is a pic of her doing what she does best and the astute among us will know where to find the listing.
Cheers.
