Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40 means looking at a Briand-designed forty-footer from the early 1980s, built by Jeanneau with a hand-laid fiberglass hull and a sandwich fiberglass deck. These boats have circulated widely through private and ex-charter ownership, so a buyer should approach each example on its individual condition rather than the model's paper specifications alone.
Layouts on the Used Market
Owner three-cabin arrangements appear more often in the brokerage pool, but two-layout configurations are both findable. Ex-charter examples are common, which matters because fleet use typically means higher engine hours and more concentrated wear than a privately maintained example, even when cosmetic teak interiors still present well.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Most Sun Fizz 40s on the market carry an autopilot, chartplotter, and hot water as standard cruising kit. A step up from that baseline, buyers will often find solar panels, an inverter, and a life raft already installed. Less uniformly, some owners have added a bimini, radar, cabin heating, a freezer, or a spinnaker — and a few have been refit for extended voyaging. For a buyer, the power-and-energy cluster (solar, inverter) signals self-sufficiency at anchor, while the safety cluster (life raft, radar) speaks to offshore intent; the comfort items (heating, hot water) are quality-of-life rather than structural.
What to Inspect
Confirm the hand-laid hull and sandwich deck are sound and free of delamination, particularly where the deck core meets fittings. Verify the iron fin keel's attachment and any corrosion at the ballast, and check the masthead rig's standing and running gear against the known lengths — 35.6-meter halyards and 30.8-meter mainsheet — since stretched or mismatched lines hint at deferred rig maintenance. The wetted surface of about 44 square meters and 1.90–2.00 meter draft mean a careful hull-bottom survey for osmosis and fairing is warranted before any offer.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
These boats routinely turn up in the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, French Polynesia, France, and Portugal. A short buyer's checklist: confirm which of the two layouts suits your plans, expect ex-charter wear if the history shows fleet use, verify the autopilot/chartplotter/hot-water baseline is present, and commission a survey focused on deck-core integrity and iron-keel corrosion.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 13 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25 | 1 | $46,969 | — |
| Jun 25 | 1 | $55,936 | +19.1% |
| Jul 25 | 1 | $28,024 | -49.9% |
| Sep 25 | 7 | $44,615 | +59.2% |
| Oct 25 | 2 | $37,836 | -15.2% |
| Nov 25 | 1 | $39,234 | +3.7% |
| Jan 26 | 4 | $52,405 | +33.6% |
| Feb 26 | 2 | $40,133 | -23.4% |
| Mar 26 | 3 | $39,234 | -2.2% |
| Apr 26 | 4 | $46,382 | +18.2% |
| May 26 | 4 | $64,881 | +39.9% |
| Sep 26 | 2 | $27,960 | -56.9% |
| Oct 26 | 1 | $78,356 | +180.2% |
Where they're listed
Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40 listings appear across 12 countries. United Kingdom has the most listings with 5 (23.8%), followed by Greece and Italy.
Country view
21 listings · 12 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | $35,825 | 5 | 0 | 23.8% |
| Greece | $24,661 | 3 | 1 | 14.3% |
| Italy | $39,234 | 3 | 1 | 14.3% |
| Spain | $44,774 | 2 | 1 | 9.5% |
| Austria | $84,073 | 1 | 0 | 4.8% |
| Australia | $34,289 | 1 | 0 | 4.8% |
| France | $64,139 | 1 | 0 | 4.8% |
| Netherlands | $30,266 | 1 | 0 | 4.8% |
| Panama | $50,000 | 1 | 0 | 4.8% |
| Portugal | $67,258 | 1 | 0 | 4.8% |
| Singapore | $62,503 | 1 | 0 | 4.8% |
| Sint Maarten | $53,246 | 1 | 0 | 4.8% |
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