Sunspot 15

[Mizzenrabble]

Does anyone have any experience of these little cruisers?
All comments (except they're small) gratefully received. I'm considering buying one!

Thanks

Mizzenrabble

 

[warrior40]

Hi,
These are great little boats that ought to be able to be bought cheaply, built by Sun yachts in Essex and designed by Arthur Howard, who designed the leisure 17. She is basically a scaled down leisure 17 and should sail just as well with all the good attributes that are associated with the leisure. Her bigger sisters, also by Howard, were the Sunstar 18, the Sunray 21-withstanding headroom! and the Sunflare 27 . Only a few were built of the latter, and tylers had the moulds for this boat for a few years after Sun yachts closed shop.
There are plenty of Sunspots around, but unfortunately, all the ones that I have spotted in recent years, have looked more than a bit neglected! So you may need to be prepared to buy a tin of elbow grease, but you will end up with a tidy and handy minature yacht that is more than capable of taking you safely to sea..

Hope this is useful.

 

[Peppermint]

PBO used to run articles by a guy who sailed one across the N.Sea. He built his own windvane steering as I remember.

 

[christine]

I have one on the south coast which I haven't sailed much yet. If you look up Sunspots in the Dinghy Cruising Association website it will give you a contact to Ted Jones who also has one on the east coast.