The Sun Way 21 is a recreational keelboat built by Jeanneau in France from 1989 to 1995, with 532 boats completed.
Built predominantly of polyester fiberglass, with wood trim, the hull is solid fiberglass, while the deck has a balsa core. There is also injected foam that makes the boat unsinkable. The hull has a raked stem, a walk-through reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel or optional stub keel and steel centerboard, with a folding rudder. The fin keel model displaces and carries of cast iron ballast, while the centerboard version displaces and carries of cast iron external ballast. The keel-equipped version of the boat has a draft of , while the centerboard-equipped version has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted. It has a hull speed of .
It has four berths, with a double V-berth and two settees in the main cabin around a table. Cabin headroom is .
It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig, with a deck-stepped pivoting mast, one set of swept spreaders and aluminum spars with continuous stainless steel wire rigging. For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of .
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