Sunny Red - Your Dream Yacht
Transferable moorage at John Wayne Marina in Sequim, WA.
Diva 451 - Sunny Red is built for speed and luxurious cruising.
Scandinavian build quality, hand finished mahogany interior. Sunny Red offers comfort, safety, speed, and ease of handling. The deep fin wing keel provides stability and speed that other cruisers cannot match.
Furling self-tacking jib and Seldon in-mast furling main are ideal for sailing couples and single-handers alike. Furling and unfurling the main with the electric winch is a dream come true when sailing shorthanded. The bow thruster makes maneuvering in close quarters easier than ever!
The mid-cockpit, made famous by Swan, is ideal for off-duty crew, guests, family, and especially kids. This cockpit has a table for outdoor dining or just relaxing with drinks under the shade of the bimini, at the dock or at anchor.
The galley layout is efficient and safe for offshore cruising, with a refrigerator and separate freezer offering adequate space for longer journeys.
Diesel forced air heat extends the sailing season for your comfort.
Contact the listing broker today for your personal showing of this stunning yacht!
Boat Name
Sunny Red
Specs
- Builder: Fabola (Sweden)
- Designer: Bernt Lindquist
- Flag of Registry: United States
- Keel: Fin
Dimensions
- LOA: 45 ft 4 in
- Beam: 12 ft 7 in
- Maximum Draft: 7 ft 0 in
Engines
- Total Power: 39 HP
- Engine 1:
- Engine Brand: Yanmar
- Year Built: 1997
- Engine Model: 3JH2 CE
- Engine Type: Inboard
- Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
- Location: Center
- Engine Hours: 1800
- Propeller: Folding propeller
- Drive Type: Sail drive
- Engine Power: 39 HP
- Cruising Speed: 7 knots @ 2500 RPM
- Maximum Speed: 7 knots
Tanks
- Fresh Water Tanks: 2 Stainless steel (75 Gallons)
- Fuel Tanks: 2 Stainless steel (62 Gallons)
- Holding Tanks: 1 (30 Gallons)
Accommodations
- Number of single berths: 2
- Number of double berths: 2
- Number of cabins: 3
- Number of heads: 2
Electronics
- Depthsounder - Raymarine ST 60
- Log-speedometer - Raymarine ST 60
- Wind speed and direction - Raymarine ST60
- Navigation center
- Plotter - Raymarine
- Autopilot - Raymarine ST7000
- Compass - Plastimo
- GPS - Raymarine
- VHF
- Radar - Raymarine
- Radar Detector
- Radio
- CD player
Sails
- Furling mainsail - Jekells from UK
- Furling genoa - Self Tacking
- Asymmetric spinnaker
Rigging
- Steering wheel
- Electric winch
Inside Equipment
- Bow thruster
- Electric bilge pump
- Manual bilge pump
- Battery charger
- Heating
- Hot water
- Oven
- Microwave oven
- Marine head
- Refrigerator
- Deep freezer
Electrical Equipment
- Shore power inlet
- Electrical Circuit: 12V
Outside Equipment/Extras
- Teak cockpit
- Teak sidedecks
- Swimming ladder
- Radar reflector
- Electric windlass
Covers
- Mainsail cover
- Spray hood
Diva 451 by Fabola Yachts
Gorgeous European craftsmanship with Swedish design by Bernt Lindquist, at Fabola Yachts.
The Diva 451 was built by Fabola Yachts, the first fiberglass boat builder in Sweden and still in business today.
High build quality and standards incorporate Kevlar in high load areas and use PVC foam core between hand laid laminates. This performance hull design has a sexy wedge deck with hand finished Mahogany interior.
The Selden In-Mast Furling Main and Self Tacking Jib makes for Easy Sailing. Fractional Rigged with overlapping Genoa for light air Performance or Racing.
Spacious Saloon and Galley with Dual Staterooms plus additional sleeping quarters for Crew.
"Guest" cockpit for passengers while sailing, outside entertaining and dining. Aft cockpit for sailing and running the boat. A drop down transom door offers ease of boarding and a swim ladder.
Race Boat pedigree with Scandinavian Designed Interior. Aesthetically beautiful, sails fast and handles well. Ready for blue-water passages, coastal cruising, or if racing is in your blood....
The Diva History - Diva 451
Diva 451 is a development of the Diva 45, with a new deck, still two cockpits, but now the helmsman's cockpit to the aft. New interior with angled bulkheads for more efficient use of space. There were approximately 30 built of the Diva 45 and 451, delivered around the world. Today they sail in the Puget Sound, Seattle, Bodensee in Switzerland, and the Baltic's.
Owners Comments and Sailing History
The Diva 451 was built by Fabola Yachts, the first fiberglass manufacturer in Sweden.
Swan was a spin-off from Fabola. Both Fabola and Swan make fast, strong, double-cockpit sailing vessels for the North Atlantic, which makes them ideal for the Pacific Northwest.
Sunny Red sailed on her own bottom from Sweden, across the Atlantic and to the USA.
The second cockpit is ideal for off-duty crew, passengers, and grandkids. You can sail the boat and still keep an eye on them. Grandkids just love the pilot berths (with lee cloths). Single-handers can sail Sunny Red without leaving the cockpit. Her bow thruster, self-tending jib, autopilot, electric-winch, and roller-furling main and jib make her ideal for both single-handers and sailing couples.
In five years of cruising the San Juan and Canadian waters as far as Desolation Sound, including Princess Louise Inlet, Sunny Red was never passed by another boat under sail. Sunny Red performs extraordinarily in heavy winds as well as light. The wheel is responsive and very balanced. Sunny Red points very well into the wind. The diesel furnace extends the cruising season well into fall.
In conclusion, Sunny Red is the family/couple/single-hander cruising boat that loves to race.
Additional Equipment
- Bow Thruster - Vetus 45 kg - helps get you into unfamiliar tight marinas.
- Electric winch - enables one person to deploy and stow sails in minutes, to catch that elusive light air puff on light air days. It is also handy for quick response to sudden gusts, when rounding islands.
- Windlass - upgraded to a handheld controller for safer deployment of the anchor. The foot switch controls of the windlass have been disabled.
- A heavy duty isolated starter battery was added to extend battery life of the house batteries.
- A generous supply of spare parts, including fan belts, alternator, rigging spares, filters, lubricants, tools, and manuals.
Additional Information
The present owners of Sunny Red will provide an afternoon of boat systems training for the new owner.
A 50 foot slip at John Wayne Marina in Sequim, WA is available immediately to the new owner. Ideal starting point for your cruising or as a weekend getaway!
Sunny Red is the ideal boat for cruising with two couples, plus kids along. There are two staterooms with privacy doors for the parents, and two pilot berths for the kids, and two heads. Plenty of room around the spacious dinette table for six and generous storage room for food in refrigerators and storage cupboards. Creature comforts are provided by diesel heat and hot water from AC at the dock or hot water from the engine while underway.
The present owners cruised every summer for 4 to 6 weeks in the San Juan Islands, Vancouver Island, Canadian Gulf Islands, and Desolation Sound. Many stops were in anchorages in beautiful, sheltered bays. The equipment on Sunny Red made it possible to have extended periods away, without staying at a dock:
- auxiliary fuel tank
- generous water supply
- generous refrigerator and freezer space
- hot water
- back-up anchor and rode.
1019 Q Ave
Ste A & B
Anacortes, WA 98221 United States
Toll-free
Tel
Email Us
