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Review of Freedom 33


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Freedom 33 is a sailboat designed by the British maritime architect Garry Hoyt.

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Hull

The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season.


Interior

The boat is equipped with a galley and toilet facility.


Keel

Full keel

The Freedom 33 is equipped with a long keel. A full keel provide a better directional stability than a similar boat with a fin keel; on the other hand, better directional stability means also that the boat is more difficult to handle in a harbour with less space.

The boat can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 1.10 - 1.20 meter (3.61 - 3.91 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.


Engine

Freedom 33 may be equipped with an inboard Yanmar 2QM diesel engine at 18 hp (13 kW).


Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

Stability and Safety

What is Capsize Screening Formula (CSF)?

The capsize screening value for Freedom 33 is 1.92, indicating that this boat could - if evaluated by this formula alone - be accepted to participate in ocean races.


Immersion rate

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Freedom 33 is about 225 kg/cm, alternatively 1264 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 225 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 1264 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.


Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Freedom 33 is 3.00.

Slim Wide 69% 0 50 100
Compared with other similar sailboats it is more spacy than 69% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a slightly more spacy hull design.


SA/D (Sail Area Displacement ratio)

SA/D (Sail Area Displacement ratio)
Indicates how fast the boat is in light wind:
- Cruising Boats have ratios 10-15
- Cruiser-Racers have ratios 16-20
- Racers have ratios above 20
- High-Performance Racers have ratios above 24
Sail-area/displacement ratio (SA/D ratio): 17.61


Maintenance

Rig

Dimensions of sail.

mainsail specifications

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If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.



Guiding dimensions of running rig
UsageLengthDiameter
Mainsail halyard 28.7 m(94.2 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Jib/genoa halyard28.7 m(94.2 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Spinnaker halyard28.7 m(94.2 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Jib sheet 10.1 m(33.0 feet)12 mm(1/2 inch)
Genoa sheet10.1 m(33.0 feet)12 mm(1/2 inch)
Mainsheet 25.2 m(82.5 feet)12 mm(1/2 inch)
Spinnaker sheet22.1 m(72.6 feet)12 mm(1/2 inch)
Cunningham5.1 m(16.7 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Kickingstrap10.2 m(33.4 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Clew-outhaul10.2 m(33.4 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)

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