Frank wrote:
It's a Freedom 40, original Hoyt design with the center cockpit, rather
than the later aft-cockpit version. Still has the wishbone booms, too,
but not the wraparound sails which were typical of the very earliest
models.


I think it might be a 44, with the bulwarks & trunk cabin.
The Freedom 40s had a rather oddly cambered flush deck. Or
it might be a Freedom 40 built with a trunk instead of the
normal deck. Several were sold to be completed as kits.


Not steel. Fiberglass.


Of course.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:
Frank wrote:
It's a Freedom 40, original Hoyt design with the center cockpit, rather
than the later aft-cockpit version. Still has the wishbone booms, too,
but not the wraparound sails which were typical of the very earliest
models.

I think it might be a 44, with the bulwarks & trunk cabin.
The Freedom 40s had a rather oddly cambered flush deck. Or
it might be a Freedom 40 built with a trunk instead of the
normal deck. Several were sold to be completed as kits.

The F 44 doesn't have a stern-hung rudder or boomkin and AFAIK it never
came in a center-cockpit version. This is the Hoyt-original-style
center-cockpit 40. The later 40 was a Hoyt-Herreshoff collaboration
with an aft-cockpit and looked like the 44 (flush deck, etc.). The 44
essentially stretched the stern of the H-H F40 to eliminate the
stern-hung rudder and boomkin setup. The underbody, although we can't
see it in this photo, for all versions of the 40 had a good bit of
wetted surface and used a centerboard. The 44 was a fixed keel with a
somewhat more "modern" underbody.

See ya,

Frank