I have never owned a Polaris 43 myself, but my boss had one built in
Taiwan and I sailed on a few times. He took it on a one year
cruise from
San Francisco to
Tahiti, then
Hawaii and home, but he never could get his new wife to buy into the program and
sold it soon afterwards for a
canal boat in
France.
As I
recall, he had Robert Perry himself redesign the
boat with more of a flush
deck, so the reports of pirated designs doesn't align with my memories. We would spend our lunch hours figuring out things like propellor sizes, and he took several trips to
Taiwan while it was being built.
My impressions on
San Francisco Bay were that it was a sweet cruising boat and a joy to sail.