SUNFISH
Lateen • Daggerboard • Built 1952
Dimensions
- LOA
- 13.9 ft
- LWL
- 13 ft
- Beam
- 4.1 ft
- Max Draft
- 2.11 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.58 ft
- Displacement
- 129 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 3.25 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 47.0
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 26
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 75 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Daggerboard
- Rig Type
- Lateen
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1952
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 300000
Although the earliest models were built of wood and offered as kits, the fiberglass version, first introduced in 1960, became the most popular recreational sailboat in history. As a result, there were many imitators.
Sunfish Builder Chronology
1952 - 1969 Alcort, Inc. (founded 1945)
1969 - 1986 AMF
1986 - 1988 Loveless & DeGarmo, dba, Alcort Sailboats Inc.
1988 - 1991 Pearson Yacht Co.
1991 - 1997 Sunfish/Laser, Inc.
Change in class rules permitted a new, slightly deeper daggerboard in the mid-1990's.
1997 - 2007 Vanguard
2007 - 2023 LaserPerformance
2024 - Zim Sailing is licensed to build the only ISCA class legal "Sunfish" now called the ZIM ISCA
2025 - SERO Innovation licenses the Sunfish trademark and logo and exclusive rights to build the "SUNFISH" from LaserPerformance. While similar, these boats are not ISCA class legal.
Builders
- AMF Corp. (1900–2012)
- Alcort (USA) (1953–1982)
- LaserPerformance (2010–2025)
- Pearson Yachts (1958–1990)
- Sero Innovation (2022)
- Zim Sailing (USA) (2008)