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The Bristol 40 Sailboat Specs & Key Performance Indicators
The Bristol 40, a masthead sloop, was designed by Ted Hood and built in the USA by Bristol Yachts.
Published Specification for the Bristol 40
Underwater Profile: Long keel
Hull Material: GRP (Fibreglass)
Length Overall: 40'2" (12.2m)
Waterline Length: 27'6" (8.4m)
Beam: 10'9" (3.3m)
Draft: 5'4" (1.6m)
Rig Type: Masthead sloop (also available as a yawl or cutter)
Displacement: 17,580lb (7,974kg)
Ballast: 6,500lb (2,948kg)
Designer: Ted Hood
Builder: Bristol Yachts (USA)
Year First Built: 1970
Year Last Built: 1986
Number Built: 149
Published Design Ratios for the Bristol 40
1. Sail Area/Displacement Ratio: 16.5
2. Ballast/Displacement Ratio: 37.0
3. Displacement/Length Ratio: 376
4. Comfort Ratio: 36.7
5. Capsize Screening Formula: 1.7
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Summary Analysis of the Design Ratios for the Bristol 40
1. A Sail Area/Displacement Ratio of 16.5 suggests that the Bristol 40 will, in the right conditions, approach her maximum hull speed readily and satisfy the sailing performance expectations of most cruising sailors.
2. A Ballast/Displacement Ratio of 37.0 means that a sailboat like the Bristol 40, is likely to benefit from being reefed early to keep her sailing upright in a moderate breeze.
3. A Displacement/Length Ratio of 376 tells us the Bristol 40 is firmly in the ultra-heavy displacement category. Load her up as much as you like and her performance will be hardly affected, not that it was ever startling. Few if any sailboats are built to this displacement category these days - but they remain popular with some long-distance sailors.
4. Ted Brewer's Comfort Ratio of 36.7 suggests that crew comfort of a Bristol 40 in a seaway is similar to what you would associate with the motion of a moderate bluewater cruising boat - a predictable and acceptable motion for most seasoned sailors.
5. The Capsize Screening Formula (CSF) of 1.7 indicates that a Bristol 40 would be a safer choice of sailboat for an ocean passage than one with a CSF of more than 2.0.
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The Bristol 40 is a classic American sailboat that was designed by Ted Hood as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1970. It is a beautiful and elegant boat with traditional lines, long overhangs, a lovely sheerline, a low freeboard and a narrow cabin trunk.
The boat has a masthead sloop rig, with an optional cutter or yawl rig, and a modified long keel with a cutaway forefoot and a keel-mounted rudder.
The boat is well-built and solid, with a fiberglass hull and deck and wood trim. The boat is suitable for coastal cruising and offshore passages, as well as club racing. The boat has a loyal following of owners and admirers who appreciate its timeless style and sailing qualities.
Accommodation The Bristol 40 has a spacious and comfortable interior for a boat of its era, with sleeping accommodation for six people.
The layout consists of a double V-berth in the forward cabin, an U-shaped settee and dinette table on the port side of the main cabin that converts to a double berth, a straight settee on the starboard side with a pipe berth above it, and a quarter berth aft of the navigation station on the starboard side.
The boat has one head compartment with a marine toilet and a sink, located on the port side between the forward cabin and the main cabin.
The galley is located on the port side near the companionway, and is equipped with a three-burner alcohol stove, an oven, a sink, and ample storage space. The navigation station is opposite the galley on the starboard side, and has a large chart table and an instrument panel.
The boat has plenty of natural light and ventilation from several opening ports and hatches. The interior is finished in warm teak woodwork and has a traditional charm.
Hull and Deck The Bristol 40 has a fiberglass hull and deck that are strong and durable. The hull is molded in one piece with no core material, while the deck is cored with balsa wood for stiffness and insulation.
The boat has a raised counter reverse transom that provides more buoyancy and space for the rudder. The boat has a spooned raked stem that gives it a graceful profile. The boat has an Edson wheel steering system that is mounted on a pedestal in the spacious and comfortable aft cockpit.
Mast and Rigging The Bristol 40 has a masthead sloop rig, with an optional cutter or yawl rig. The mast and boom are made of aluminum and are painted white. The mast is keel-stepped and has two sets of spreaders. The mast has internal halyards for the main, jib, and spinnaker.
Keel and Rudder The Bristol 40 has a modified long keel that provides stability and directional control. The keel has a cutaway forefoot that reduces wetted surface and improves maneuverability. The keel is made of fiberglass and encapsulates 6,500 lb (2,948 kg) of lead ballast. The keel has a draft of 5.40 ft (1.65 m) with the standard configuration, but a stub keel and centerboard version was also available.
The Bristol 40 has a keel-mounted rudder that is controlled by an Edson wheel steering system.
The rudder is made of fiberglass and has a stainless steel stock and fittings. The rudder has a balanced design that reduces the steering effort and improves the responsiveness. The rudder is protected by a bronze shoe at the bottom of the keel.
Versions and Options The Bristol 40 was produced from 1970 to 1986, with a total of 149 units built. The boat was based on the earlier Bristol 39, which was produced from 1966 to 1970, with 58 units built. The Bristol 39 and 40 are nearly identical in their principle dimensions, but have different lengths overall due to some changes in the hull sections aft and the stemhead fitting. The Bristol 40 was available in different versions and options, such as:
- Keel or keel/centerboard configuration: The standard version had a fixed modified long keel with a draft of 5.40 ft (1.65 m), while the optional version had a stub keel and a centerboard with a draft of 7.8 ft (2.4 m) when extended and 4.0 ft (1.2 m) when retracted. The centerboard was made of fiberglass and was operated by a pennant line that led to the cockpit.
- Masthead sloop, cutter or yawl rig: The standard version had a masthead sloop rig with a single forestay and a single mainsail, while the optional versions had either a cutter rig with an inner forestay and an inner jib or staysail, or a yawl rig with a mizzen mast and sail aft of the rudder post.
- Gasoline or diesel engine: The standard version had a Universal Atomic 4 30 hp (22 kW) gasoline engine, while the optional version had a Westerbeke diesel engine.
The above text was drafted by sailboat-cruising.com using GPT-4 (OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model) as a research assistant to develop source material; we believe it to be accurate to the best of our knowledge.
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The Bristol 39 and Bristol 40 are basically the same boat, even though the specifications state that the Bristol 40 is nearly a foot longer than the Bristol 39. According to the builder, the hull sections aft were made slightly fuller on the Bristol 40, and the stemhead fitting was altered. After very careful scaling of plans, we can say with reasonable confidence that from one end of the hull to the other, excluding the bow pulpit and the anchor roller, the Bristol 39 and Bristol 40 are about 39′ 8″ long. Whether you call it a 39-footer or a 40-footer is up to you.
But this is not a 40′ boat in the modern sense. Yes, if you take a tape measure to the boat, you’ll read almost 40′. But if you go below, you’ll swear you stepped onto a 33′ boat—at least if you’re used to looking at the 33-footers built today.
With a waterline length of 27′ 6″ and a beam of 10′ 9″, The Bristol 40’s proportions are about as typical as you can get of cruising/racing sailboats built between about 1930, when the CCA (Cruising Club of America) rule was conceived, and 1970, when it was replaced by the International Offshore Rule (IOR). For those 40 years, about 30% of the average boat’s length was in overhangs. Today, you find the waterline length and beam of the Bristol 40 on boats less than 35′ long.
About 150 Bristol 40s were built. This does not include the relatively small number of boats in the Bristol 39 series.
The 39 was one of the first models built by Bristol Yachts, entering production in 1966. Beginning with 1972 models, the boat was rechristened the Bristol 40. The last Bristol 40 was built in 1986.
If you like traditional yachts, you’ll find the Bristol 40 appealing. The boat has the long overhangs, lovely sheerline, low freeboard, narrow cabin trunk undistorted hull shape, and narrow beam we associate with the beautiful yachts of the past. If you didn’t know she was a Ted Hood design, you might mistake her for a boat by Olin Stephens, John Alden, or Phil Rhodes. The trade-off for these traditional good looks is a boat with a small interior compared to today’s 40- footers.
Sailing Performance “Fast” is a very relative term when you’re talking about sailboats. The Bristol 40 is not fast relative to more modern 40-footers, but her performance is similar to that of other boats of her length built under the CCA rule, when boats were heavier and shorter on the waterline than they are today. The boat is close in speed, for example, to the Hinckley Bermuda 40 yawls with the original low aspect ratio rig. It is about 30 seconds per mile slower, however, than the Cal 40—a boat of the same length on deck, but with a longer waterline, less wetted surface and slightly less displacement.
In both keel and centerboard versions, the Bristol 40 is a fairly tippy boat, as you would expect from her narrow beam, shoal draft, and modest amount of ballast. Like “fast,” however, “tippy” is a relative term.
Most narrow boats have relatively low initial stability, even if their ultimate stability is good. For example, the McCurdy and Rhodes 62-footer Arcadia, built in 1972, is about 2′ narrower than a new IOR 60- footer would be, and has a righting moment about 15% lower than that of the new boat, even though Arcadia is significantly heavier.
Yet Arcadia’s range of positive stability is about 143°, while the typical “modern” racer/cruiser loses positive stability at 120° or less.
Unfortunately, being narrow and tippy doesn’t guarantee a good range of ultimate stability. The keel version of the Bristol 40 loses positive righting moment at about 120°—the absolute minimum we would consider for a serious offshore cruiser. The centerboard version’s range of stability is less—about 110° for the only boat rated under the International Measurement System (IMS).
It is not unusual for centerboarders to have very low positive stability. The Hinckley Bermuda 40— the classic keel-centerboarder—typically loses stability at an even lower angle than the centerboard Bristol 40, yet few people would consider the boat unsuitable for passage making.
Owners report that the Bristol 40 is very sensitive to the amount of sail carried. We’d suggest a modern headsail reefing/furling system for shorthanded cruising to reduce the number of headsail changes required. Like most CCA boats, the Bristol 40 is a good reaching boat, lacking the rounding-up tendency of many modern boats with full sterns. The trade-off is that the boat tends to squat when running downwind, digging a hole that’s hard to climb out of. A Bristol 40 with a full keel won the 1983 Marion- Bermuda Race, an event that consisted largely of four days of close reaching in light to moderate breezes.
Because the boat is narrow, there is no need to move the genoa track inboard of the toerail. The only real disadvantage of toerail-mounted genoa track is that you may have to relead the sheet to clear stanchions when changing headsails or reducing sail area with a headsail furler, unless there are turning blocks at the aft end of the genoa track.The two most common mainsheet arrangements on the boat are a short traveler spanning the cockpit immediately in front of the steering wheel, or a longer traveler over the coachroof in front of the companionway. The short traveler in the cockpit doesn’t really offer much mainsail control, but it is a convenient location for the sheet.
The rig is a basic masthead sloop or yawl, using an untapered, keel-stepped anodized mast with single spreaders and double lower shrouds: basically foolproof. The lower shroud chainplates do not line up exactly with the pull of the shrouds, which will tend to fatigue the chainplates over time, as well as increasing the likelihood of leaks due to an unfair pulling angle.
Since this is a boat that was in production for the better part of 20 years, it’s difficult to generalize about the sailing gear you’ll find. On the Bristol 40s we’ve looked at, the stock winches tend to be one or two sizes smaller than we’d put on the boat today. You’re unlikely to find self-tailers on older models.
A lot of Bristol 40s were built as yawls. While the yawl rig is pretty and looks very traditional, the mizzen is generally only useful to help balance the helm, as a convenient place to mount a radar antenna, and to serve as a support for a mizzen staysail on the rare occasion that it pays to carry one. The mizzen makes the boat more tippy and increases windage—disadvantages for upwind sailing.
Engine Before 1970, Bristol 39s came with either Atomic 4 or Graymarine gas engines. Later model 39s and Bristol 40s were powered either by the Atomic 4 or by a variety of diesels, including the Westerbeke 4-91, Westerbeke 4-107 and 4-108, Perkins 4-108, or Volvo MD2B and MD3B engines. That should be enough variety to satisfy everyone.
The Westerbeke and Perkins 4-108s are essentially the same engine, and in our opinion would be the best engine for the boat, although they’re more power than it needs. Diesel engine installations in the Bristol 40 are not without problems. There is little room between the shaft coupling and the stuffing box—so little, in fact, that several owners surveyed reported that it is almost impossible to reach the stuffing box for adjustment or repacking.
In all models, the fuel tank is located under the cockpit sole, above the engine. Fuel capacity is about 30 gallons. Early diesel-powered models have black iron fuel tanks, and at least one owner surveyed reported having to replace a rusted-out tank after a years. Later models have aluminum fuel tanks, which are less likely to corrode. Range under power with the Perkins 4-108 and 30 gallons of fuel will be about 180 miles.
The gasoline engines used in early models swing a small prop. Unfortunately, when the switch was made to bigger diesels—the Perkins 4-108 displaces 108 cubic inches, the Atomic 4 only 65 cubic inches— the propeller aperture was not enlarged, limiting prop size. We measured the height to be 16 1/2″, which means you can really only swing about a 15″ prop and still maintain adequate tip clearance. The result is that you end up turning an oversquare prop (more pitch than diameter), which is not the most efficient way to utilize the engine in a sailboat.
Our prop choice would be a three-bladed feathering Maxprop for the best combination of performance under both sail and power. The Maxprop would also slightly improve handling in reverse, which is rated as poor by most owners. A tiny fixed prop tucked in an aperture in the deadwood and rudder is a bad combination for handling in reverse. Powering ahead, the boat handles just fine.
There is no sound insulation in the engine compartment. Access to the front of the engine is fair, requiring removal of the front of the engine box which doubles as the companionway ladder.
Construction Bristol Yachts has gone through a lot of changes over the years. The prime mover behind Bristol was Clint Pearson, one of the pioneering Pearson brothers— the other, Everett, now runs Tillotson-Pearson.
The boats built by Bristol today are a far cry from those of 15 years ago. Current Bristols are targeted toward the middle to upper end of the production and semi-custom markets, with very good finish detail and systems. Originally, Bristols were aimed at the mass market, and were finished and equipped accordingly.
Since the Bristol 40 was built over a period of 20 years, there were a number of minor changes during the production run, but the last boats are essentially the same as the first ones.
The Bristol 40 is not a particularly lightly built boat, but she is certainly not heavy for her overall length, even by modern standards. The boat is substantially lighter than most long-keel CCA 40-footers. The Hinckley Bermuda 40, for example, displaces about 20,000 pounds in normal trim. The Cal 40, considered a real lightweight in 1966, weighs about 16,000 pounds in IMS measurement trim; the average Bristol 40, right at 17,000 pounds in the same configuration.
By way of comparison, the Little Harbor 38 that won the 1986 Newport-Bermuda Race tips the scales at a hefty 25,000 pounds, and the newer Bristol 38.8 has a designed displacement of just over 19,000 pounds.
None of the Bristol 40 owners we surveyed report any major structural flaws. They do, however, complain of annoyances such as leaking ports, deck hardware, and hull/deck joints. These are generally assembly and quality control problems, and most can be solved by the owner, albeit with a fair amount of labor. A leaking hull/deck joint may be more of a problem, but this type of leak should show up during a careful examination of the boat. Discoloration and water streaks inside lockers and on bulkheads, rust and drips on through-fastenings, and mysterious puddles of water may indicate leaks in the joint.
From a cruiser’s point of view, a nice feature of the Bristol 40 is its water capacity: 130 gallons in two fiberglass water tanks.
Any sailboat hull older that about eight years is getting on toward being a candidate for painting. While the gelcoat in the Bristol 40s we examined still looks reasonable, most of the colored hulls—pastels were popular in the 70s—are badly faded. The colored gelcoat used was not colorfast.
We also noted numerous gelcoat flaws on decks cracks around stanchion bases, some voids at sharp corner transitions. During the survey, the surveyor should carefully sound the entire deck for voids. If you’re going to go to the trouble and expense of painting, you might as well catch all the problems at the same time.
Deck non-skid is a molded-in basket weave pattern, and we have found it to be less effective than more aggressive non-skid designs.
The cockpit is huge, with seats almost 7′ long. The well is narrow enough that you can brace your feet against the opposite seat—a good feature on any boat, but especially important on a tippy boat. The big cockpit is a mixed blessing. It gives plenty of space for daysailing or in-port parties, but it is also vulnerable to filling in extremely heavy offshore conditions.
In our opinion, the cockpit scuppers are too small. Each of the two scuppers is about the size of a bathtub drain. Since there is no bridgedeck—just a raised companionway sill—it is particularly important that the cockpit drain quickly. This is a pretty reasonable retrofit job. For offshore sailing, the bottom dropboard should be caulked and permanently secured in place.
There is a reasonable amount of exterior teak trim on the boat, including toerails, cabin eyebrow trim, handrails, and cockpit coamings. A Bristol 40 with a freshly-Awlgripped hull and varnished teak trim would look handsome, indeed.
On the port and starboard quarters, there are large chocks for dock lines. While these look substantial, they are only screwed to the toerails, and can easily tear out. Chocks can be very heavily loaded during panic dockings, and should always be through-bolted, as should all deck hardware.
Through hull fittings are not recessed flush, but can easily be faired in to reduce drag in very light air. The Constellation-style rudder is set slightly above the aft edge of the keel, so that the boat will ground out on the keel rather than the rudder.
Instead of a bolt-on external keel, the Bristol 40 has a molded keel cavity filled with 6,500 pounds of lead. One owner we surveyed had added 1,500 pounds of lead pigs in the bilge to improve stability.
Interior Bristol has always made extensive use of built-up interiors of plywood and solid wood, rather than fiberglass molded components trimmed out in solid wood. The company has also made extensive use of mahogany rather than teak in interior construction.
If you’re used to the dull brown of teak, the brighter reddish-brown of the mahogany interior of the Bristol may or may not appeal to you. Mahogany must be varnished: it is not suited to an oil finish in a marine environment. If you let the varnish wear off, the wood will turn grey, particularly after exposure to water.
At the same time, mahogany is lighter and brighter than teak, and can make an all-wood interior slightly less gloomy. If all else fails, you can always paint out the mahogany bulkheads and leave the mahogany trim varnished. Teak plywood is much harder to paint out, since its waxy surface doesn’t hold paint very well.
The built-up interior allowed a number of interior options in the Bristol 39 and 40. As originally drawn, the boat had a wide-open offshore racing interior, with a sail locker forward, the head in the area normally reserved for a forward sleeping cabin, and symmetrical pilot berths, settees, and quarterberths in the main cabin. While it provides six sea berths, this interior has little appeal for a cruising family. Most boats were built with one of several more conventional interior layouts.
One advantage of long-ended boats is that the Vberths don’t have to be jammed into the bow. Instead, you get berths that are wide enough at the foot for normal-sized people. The forward cabin of the Bristol 40 is quite roomy, with two berths and various lockers and drawers. An insert turns the V-berths into a reasonable double berth.
The head compartment is aft of the forward cabin, on the port side. It is a big, roomy head, with rather remarkable storage, including 10 small drawers and three lockers. All boats came with hot and cold pressure water, and have a hand-held shower attached to the head sink fixture.
Opposite the head are the usual hanging lockers.
Several different main cabin layouts were offered, with an arrangement to please just about every fairly conventional taste. On the port side, you’ll find either a settee berth with storage outboard, a Ushaped dinette, or a narrow pull-out settee with a pilot berth outboard. On the starboard side, you’ll usually find a settee with a folding pipe berth above, although some boats were built with a conventional pilot berth outboard of the starboard settee.
On boats without a dinette, the main cabin table folds up against the port forward bulkhead—a reasonable solution in a narrow boat.
Main cabin storage space is quite good, with a number of drawers and lockers. The actual storage arrangement varies with each interior layout.
Ventilation in the main cabin, as well as in the entire boat, is so-so. There is an opening port in the head, and a cowl vent overhead. There is another cowl vent on the other side of the cabin trunk opposite the head, providing some air to the forward cabin and main cabin in foul weather. Over the forward cabin is a large fiberglass hatch.
A fiberglass hatch over the main cabin was optional. The main cabin ports do not open. Ventilation would be greatly improved by adding Dorade boxes just in front of the dodger breakwater at the aft end of the main cabin. If you also put a reversible aluminum-framed hatch directly over the middle of the main cabin, and added a small dodger to it for heavy weather protection, you’d go from lousy ventilation to good airflow in one fell swoop.
We’re not keen on the fiberglass hatches used in production boats in the 1970s. They distort easily, and never seem to seal completely.
Headroom is about 6′ 4″ on centerline aft, decreasing to about 6′ in the forward cabin.
In all interior layouts other than the original ocean racing one, the galley is at the aft end of the main cabin. There are two aft galley arrangements. One is spacious but not particularly efficient, the other is tight. On boats equipped with a quarterberth and nav station on the port side, the galley is jammed into the starboard aft corner, and is small for a 40-footer. On boats without a nav station, stove and sink are on the port side, with a large icebox opposite to starboard. The top of the icebox is then used as a navigation table. Neither galley layout is as good as the Ushaped galley used on more modern boats such as the Bristol 38.8.
You’ll have to make a choice on the galley layout. A nav station is very desirable if the boat is used for more than daysailing. Yet the starboard galley you get on boats with nav stations is quite small, and doesn’t have much storage for foodstuffs or utensils.
Even on boats with the port nav station, the electrical panel is located on the starboard side, above the galley and next to the companionway, in a fiberglass box that’s a molded part of the cabin liner. We’d want to give better protection to the panel by building a frame with an opening clear acrylic cover.
Despite the narrowness of the Bristol 40 compared to newer boats, the interior is reasonably laid out and not cramped. Headroom is good, and you can easily make improvements in ventilation. The interior doesn’t seem as spacious as a lot of boats due to the fairly narrow, tall cabin trunk. Newer designs have more freeboard, allowing a lower cabin trunk and increasing the feel of interior space.
Conclusions Like the better-known Bermuda 40, the Bristol 40 is an exceptionally pretty boat, and those good looks are one factor that kept the boat in production for such a long time. But the Bermuda 40 has been carefully refined, and its reputation nurtured by a group of nearly-fanatical owners who are willing to pay rather remarkably high prices for a design that is now 30 years old.
The Bristol 40, on the other hand, lacks that reputation and following. A few Bristol 40s were built for die-hards even after the boat was superseded in 1983 by the faster, roomier, stiffer Bristol 38.8—a design that is a distinctly more modern Hood cruiser/racer.
Because of her large cockpit, small cockpit drains, slightly vulnerable companionway, and fairly low initial stability, this boat wouldn’t be a good choice for extended offshore cruising, although Bristol 40s have certainly done their share of it. For cruising in the Chesapeake, Bahamas, or Gulf of Mexico, the keel-centerboard version would be a reasonable choice, and even the deep keel model draws substantially less than most 40-footers.
A late-model, sloop-rigged boat with Perkins or Westerbeke diesel would be our first choice. Since relatively few changes were made in the boat during the years of production, however, you might also find a good older boat on which a lot of attention has been lavished.
If you like traditional looks, and you cruise in shoal coastal waters without extremely heavy winds a lot of the time, the Bristol 40 should appeal to you. You’re a natural candidate for the boat if the looks of the Bermuda 40 catch your eye, but you don’t have the pocketbook to indulge yourself in Hinckley quality.
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New Cruising Sails for a 29.9
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Any 35.5 owners in?
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Bristol logo stickers
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centerboard on the 41.1
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Look for Bristol 28 owners
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1972 Bristol 40
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Cutlass replacement on B30 / B29 rudder
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Bristol 26 parts
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Bristol 41 Aft Cockpit
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Bristol 29.9 Rig Dimensions Question
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Bristol 27 interior space?
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Bristol Yachts 50th Anniversery 2016
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Bristol 35 Center Board replacement
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USCG is coming to the Bristol Yachts 50th event!
- Mar 21, 2016
Bristol 50th newsletter
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Replacing standing rigging/chainplates on B27 while in the water
- Dec 7, 2015
BY50AR Newsletter
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Bristol 27 Insight
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Bristol Yachts was an American company which was among the first commercially successful production fiberglass sailboat boat builders. The company was founded in 1964 and closed in 1997. [1] History ... Carl Alberg designed the company's first boat, the Bristol 27. Clinton changed the company's name to Bristol Yacht Company in 1966, and the ...
In total, 4400 Bristol Yachts were produced between 1965 and 1997 when the company ceased production. HIN for Bristol Yachts: BTY. Years in Business: 1964 - 1997. Sailboats Built By Bristol Yachts. (Dates indicate when boat was first built by any builder) Sort by: 39 Sailboats / Per Page: 50 / Page: 1. MODEL.
The popular little Bristol 24, also called the Corsair in earlier times, is a safe and solidly built pocket cruiser from the 1960s. Hundreds were built in hand-laid fiberglass by Sailstar Boat Company and later Bristol Yachts in Rhode Island with a production run that spanned 17 years. This Paul Coble design, makes for a great little coastal ...
In one year 172 Bristol 27's were built. There was also the Bristol 29 designed by Halsey Herreshoff, the Bristols 32 and 39 designed by Ted Hood, and Bristol 34 designed by John Alden Assoc.. Later 'second generation' models included the 31.1, 35.5, 41.1, 45.5, 47.7 and then larger custom boats. In total, 4400 Bristol Yachts were ...
Bristol Yachts Inc. (USA) Designer: Paul Coble: KLSC Leaderboard. Sailboat Calculations Definitions S.A. / Displ.: 14.52: ... Like the LWL, it will vary with the weights of fuel, water, stores and equipment. A boat's actual draft is usually somewhat more than the original designed or advertised draft. For boats with adjustable keels ...
Bristol boats for sale on YachtWorld are available for an assortment of prices from $9,226 on the relatively more affordable end, with costs up to $223,622 for the more sophisticated, luxurious yachts. What Bristol model is the best? Some of the most widely-known Bristol models currently listed include: 40, 35.5, 45.5 Center Cockpit, 38.8 and 31.1.
The Bristol 40 was produced from 1970 to 1986, with a total of 149 units built. The boat was based on the earlier Bristol 39, which was produced from 1966 to 1970, with 58 units built. The Bristol 39 and 40 are nearly identical in their principle dimensions, but have different lengths overall due to some changes in the hull sections aft and the ...
The 39 was one of the first models built by Bristol Yachts, entering production in 1966. Beginning with 1972 models, the boat was rechristened the Bristol 40. The last Bristol 40 was built in 1986. If you like traditional yachts, you'll find the Bristol 40 appealing. The boat has the long overhangs, lovely sheerline, low freeboard, narrow ...
BRISTOL 39 and 40 are nearly identical though dimensions differed slightly for all models. Production (39) 1966-1970 ... Like the LWL, it will vary with the weights of fuel, water, stores and equipment. A boat's actual draft is usually somewhat more than the original designed or advertised draft. For boats with adjustable keels (centerboards ...
Bristol 27 is a 27′ 1″ / 8.3 m monohull sailboat designed by Carl Alberg and built by Bristol Yachts between 1965 and 1978. Great choice! Your favorites are temporarily saved for this session. ... The first boat out of the gates was the Bristol 27, some say it's very much a copy of their earlier successful Pearson Triton 28. The Bristol ...
About The Boat. Boat Builders Row. Boat Builders Row. Bristol. Unfollow Forum Follow Forum Create thread ... Bristol logo stickers. Delta-T; May 23, 2019; 2 2K May 23, 2019. by Delta-T. centerboard on the 41.1. kbbarton; Sep 13, 2018; 18 7K ...
Offering the best selection of Bristol boats to choose from. ... Sailboats Northeast | Marblehead, Massachusetts. Request Info; Price Drop; 1982 Bristol 41.1 Center Cockpit. US$119,900. ↓ Price Drop. Oriental Yacht Sales | New Bern, North Carolina. Request Info; New Arrival; 1979 Bristol 35.5 CB.
Find Bristol 40 boats for sale in your area & across the world on YachtWorld. Offering the best selection of Bristol boats to choose from. ... Sailboats Northeast | Marblehead, Massachusetts. Request Info; 1987 Bristol 40. US$59,900. K. McCann Yacht Sales | Falmouth, Massachusetts. Request Info; New Arrival; 1978 Bristol 40. US$67,500. ↓ ...
31' Mariner Ketch - Major Restoration & Repower - New Rigging & Sails Tenants Harbor Maine, Maine Asking $45,000
Bristol 41.1 is a 41′ 2″ / 12.6 m monohull sailboat designed by Ted Hood and Dieter Empacher and built by Bristol Yachts between 1981 and 1994. Great choice! Your favorites are temporarily saved for this session. ... Launched in early 1981 by Bristol Yachts, the boat was built by some of New England's finest craftsmen. With that kind of ...
Bristol is a boat builder in the marine industry that offers boats for sale in a variety of sizes on Boat Trader, with the smallest current boat listed at 21 feet in length, to the longest vessel measuring in at 45 feet, and an average length of 36.74 feet. Boat Trader currently has 22 Bristol boats for sale, including 0 new vessels and 22 used ...
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An 'extended' version later became the BRISTOL 43.3. CUTTER RIG: I: 54.0' J: 18.8' P: 47.0' E: 16.3' Tot. SA: 891 sq.ft. ... Like the LWL, it will vary with the weights of fuel, water, stores and equipment. A boat's actual draft is usually somewhat more than the original designed or advertised draft. For boats with adjustable keels ...
Villa Vie Odyssey was supposed to set sail on a global cruise from Belfast in May. Problems with the ship mean it's been docked there for the past three months. Some passengers are staying ...
40 to 50 indicates a heavy bluewater boat; over 50 indicates an extremely heavy bluewater boat. Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam^1.33), where displacement is expressed in pounds, and length is expressed in feet. Capsize Screening Formula (CSF): Designed to determine if a boat has blue water capability.