| Freedom 39 | |
| Insignia: | File:Freedom Yachts Star Logo.jpg |
| Insignia Size: | 100px |
| Designer: | Ron Holland and Gary Hoyt |
| Location: | United States |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Builder: | Freedom Yachts |
| Role: | Cruiser |
| Draft: | 5.5feet |
| Displacement: | 185000NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | Monohull |
| Construction: | Fiberglass |
| Loa: | 39feet |
| Lwl: | 31feet |
| Beam: | 12.83feet |
| Engine: | Perkins Engines 4-108 500NaN0 diesel engine |
| Keel Type: | fin keel |
| Ballast: | 53000NaN0 |
| Rudder Type: | skeg-mounted rudder |
| Rig Type: | Cat-rigged ketch |
| P: | 44.5feet |
| E: | 17.5feet |
| Sailplan: | Cat-rigged ketch |
| Sailarea Main: | 389.38square feet |
| Sails Other: | Mizzen: 232.44square feet |
| Sailarea Total: | 621.82square feet |
The Freedom 39, also called the Freedom 39 Express, is an American sailboat that was designed by Ron Holland and Gary Hoyt as a cruiser and first built in 1983.[1] [2] [3]
The Freedom 39 was introduced at the same time as the related Freedom 39 PH design, a boat with a similar hull, but a schooner rig and a pilothouse.[1] [4] [5]
The boat was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States for Freedom Yachts, starting in 1983.[1] [6]
The Freedom 39 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wooden trim. It is a cat-rigged ketch, with carbon-fiber conventional booms and two free-standing carbon-fiber masts. It has an aft cockpit and features a raked stem, a slightly reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel. The design displaces 185000NaN0 and carries 53000NaN0 of lead ballast.[1]
The boat has a draft of 5.5feet with the standard keel fitted.[1]
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4-108 500NaN0 for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .[1]
The design has sleeping accommodations for six people. It has a private, aft, double cabin, under the cockpit on the starboard side, two pilot berths in the main cabin and a double berth in the bow cabin. The galley is U-shaped and located on the port side, at the foot of the companionway steps. It includes a three-burner stove and double sinks. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side.[1]
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