Boat models · Corbin
Corbin 39
Sailboat, bluewater cruiser · built 1979-1991 · designed by Robert Dufour/Marius Corbin
Key figures
Comfort36.3kindly offshore
Capsize screen1.7passes for offshore
SA/D16.1cruiser
D/L311heavy
Ballast ratio0.39average
Hull speed7.6kt
- Built
- 1979-1991
- Designer
- Robert Dufour/Marius Corbin
- Builder
- Corbin les Bateaux (CAN)
- Rig
- Cutter
- Keel
- Fin keel with rudder on skeg
- Length
- 41.5 ft
- Beam / draft
- 12.1 ft · 5.5 ft
- Displacement
- 22,800 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on sailboatdata.com.
Reputation
Classbluewater cruiseras owners use it
Forumsrespectedpicked over its peers
Heavy, overbuilt offshore cutter; quality depends entirely on who finished the kit hull
- Offshore passages
- loved · strong hull, sea-kindly motion, many circumnavigations
- Liveaboard
- respected · big tankage and stowage, but dark, dated interiors
- Coastal cruising
- ordinary · heavy and slow in light air
- Loved
- very heavily built hand-laid hull · comfortable motion in big seas · deep bulwarks and secure decks · proven ocean record
- Gripes
- owner-finished boats vary widely in quality · sluggish in light winds · hard to handle backing under power · resale held back by kit-boat stigma
- Survey for
- amateur wiring and plumbing on owner-completed hulls · deck core moisture around fittings · chainplate and bulwark leaks · iron/steel tank corrosion
- Cross-shopped
- Valiant 40 · Tayana 37 · Passport 40 · Baba 40
Owner opinion from sailboatdata.com, cruisersforum.com, sailnet.com
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