Farr 38
sailboat class
The Farr 38, also called the Farr 11.6m, is a sailboat that was designed by New Zealander Bruce Farr as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1978. It is Farr Yacht Design number 72.
The Farr 38 is sometimes confused with an earlier Farr 38 design. This unrelated design was produced as a single boat, the Jenny H, constructed in 1977.
Production
The design was built on a production basis in Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. It was built by Compass Yachts in New Zealand, Spindrift Yacht Inc in Canada and by Marina Bracuhy in Brazil. A number of boats were built by amateur boatbuilders from purchased plans as well. Collectively they completed 85 examples, with production commencing in 1978, but it is now out of production.
Design
The Farr 38 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of cold-moulded wood, finished with epoxy and polyurethane and fibreglass, with the New Zealand production-built boats built out of Fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig with polyurethane-painted aluminum spars, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller or optional wheel and a fixed fin keel.
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