Boat models · Yorktown
Yorktown 39 Center Cockpit
Sailboat, coastal cruiser · built 1974 · designed by H. McCune
Key figures
Comfort31.5kindly offshore
Capsize screen1.76passes for offshore
SA/D13.2undercanvassed
D/L236moderate
Ballast ratio0.37average
Hull speed7.7kt
- Built
- 1974
- Designer
- H. McCune
- Builder
- Yorktown Marine Corp (USA)
- Rig
- Masthead Sloop
- Keel
- Fin Keel
- Length
- 39.0 ft
- Beam / draft
- 11.8 ft · 6.0 ft
- Displacement
- 19,000 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on sailboatdata.com.
Reputation
Classcoastal cruiseras owners use it
Forumsmixedfans and detractors
Thick-hulled kit boat whose worth depends entirely on whoever finished it.
- Liveaboard
- ordinary · roomy center-cockpit interior at a low price
- Offshore passages
- mixed · heavy hull has crossed oceans; finish quality varies
- Coastal cruising
- ordinary · stable but slow, and its deep draft limits where it goes
- Loved
- heavy, thick fiberglass hull · lots of room for the money · cheap way into a 39 footer
- Gripes
- owner-finished quality ranges from fine to crude · deep draft, 6 ft plus · slow and heavy under sail · hard to find original specs or sail plans
- Survey for
- keel glass delaminating from the hull · amateur wiring and plumbing · deck core and hardware bedding done by the builder-owner · rig and chainplate installs done by the owner
- Cross-shopped
- Downeaster 38 · Morgan 41 · CT 41 · Islander Freeport 36
Owner opinion from sailnet.com, sailnet.com, cruisersforum.com, cruisersforum.com, cruisersforum.com
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