Freedom 39
{{Short description|Sailboat class}}
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{{Use American English|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox sailboat specifications
|name = Freedom 39
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|designer = Ron Holland and Gary Hoyt
|location = United States
|year = 1983
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|builder = Freedom Yachts
|role = Cruiser
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|draft = {{convert|5.50|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|displacement = {{convert|18500|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
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|hull type = Monohull
|construction = Fiberglass
|loa = {{convert|39.00|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|lwl = {{convert|31.00|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|beam = {{convert|12.83|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|engine = Perkins Engines 4-108 {{convert|50|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} diesel engine
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|keel type = fin keel
|ballast = {{convert|5300|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
|rudder type = skeg-mounted rudder
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|rig type = Cat-rigged ketch
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|P = {{convert|44.50|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|E = {{convert|17.50|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|sailplan = Cat-rigged ketch
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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.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/freedom-39|title = Freedom 39 sailboat |access-date = 27 March 2020|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2020|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20190523191909/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/freedom-39|archivedate =23 May 2019|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url =https://sailboatdata.com/designer/holland-ron|title = Ron Holland|access-date = 27 March 2020|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2020|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20190523191825/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/holland-ron|archivedate =23 May 2019|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url =https://sailboatdata.com/designer/hoyt-gary|title = Gary Hoyt|access-date = 27 March 2020|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2020|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044451/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/hoyt-gary|archivedate =6 March 2019|url-status= live}}
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.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/freedom-39-pilot-house|title = Freedom 39 PH sailboat |access-date = 27 March 2020|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2020|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20190523191900/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/freedom-39-pilot-house|archivedate =23 May 2019|url-status= live}}Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 332-333. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. {{ISBN|0-395-65239-1}}
Production
The boat was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States for Freedom Yachts, starting in 1983.{{cite web|url =https://sailboatdata.com/builder/freedom-yachts|title = Freedom Yachts|access-date = 27 March 2020|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2020|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20181018225052/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/freedom-yachts|archivedate =18 October 2018|url-status= live}}
Design
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 {{convert|18500|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and carries {{convert|5300|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} of lead ballast.
The boat has a draft of {{convert|5.50|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the standard keel fitted.
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4-108 {{convert|50|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds {{convert|80|u.s.gal}} and the fresh water tank has a capacity of {{convert|130|u.s.gal}}.
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.
See also
Related development
Similar sailboats