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Aragosa Yachts 38

Masthead Sloop · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · First built 1988

A 1988 masthead sloop with a 35% ballast ratio, designed by Ted Brewer for balanced offshore performance

Designed by Ted Brewer & Edward S. Brewer.

LOA
Beam
Draft (max)
Displacement
Ballast
Hull type
Fin With Rudder On Skeg

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The Aragosa Yachts 38, on the water

The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.

Footage from Velero Regina

Is it for you?

Character

Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.

LivelySea-kindly

Her heavy displacement on a moderate beam gives 32 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.

Comfort ratio 32
CoastalBluewater

1.84 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.

Capsize screening 1.84
LightHeavy

288 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.

Displacement / length 288
EasygoingPowered-up

16.6 — moderate power for her weight; steady, all-round performance.

Sail area / displacement 16.6
TenderStiff

36% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.

Ballast 36%

A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.

  • Heavier than ~78% of boats her size on file

Compared with 2895 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Aragosa Yachts 38, as the fleet has seen it

Derived from the videos the fleet has analysed of this model. ▶ marks open the moment aboard.

The Aragosa Yachts 38 is a Ted Brewer-designed masthead sloop, model number 198, with plans available since its 1988 introduction.2:42 It measures 11.6 meters LOA, 3.8 meters in beam, and draws 1.8 meters, displacing 8935 kg. Aboard *Regina*, an Aragosa 38, the crew fabricated and installed two custom spruce storage cabinets to increase stowage and visually separate the aft cabin and galley from the main saloon.2:37 Each cabinet weighs approximately 4 kilograms and is secured to the boat’s structural beams and bulkheads.8:44 The crew added decorative grab rails to the cabinet exteriors for additional handholds and included interior lining and raised fiddles on the shelves.5:17

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen 2 times across one channel of the fleet.

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On the water

The Aragosa Yachts 38 on video

The record

Full specifications

The complete reference set — tap any figure to switch between metric and imperial.

Dimensions
Weights
Ballast / displacement
35.5%
Rig & sail area
Rig
Masthead Sloop
Ratios
SA / displacement
16.6
Displacement / length
288.2
Comfort ratio
31.9
Capsize screening
1.84
Hull speed
7.5 kn
Pounds / inch immersion
1387
Hull
Hull type
Fin with rudder on skeg
Construction
Steel
Production
Years built
First built 1988
Designer
Ted Brewer, Edward S. Brewer
Builder
Aragosa Yachts

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The family

Related models

The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.

Aragosa Yachts 35An aluminum-hulled masthead sloop from 1989, built to a Ted Brewer design featuring a skeg-mounted rudderArcona 38Built between 1995 and 2001, this 11.45-meter cruiser pairs a 1.9-meter draft with a nimble 6,800 kg displacementOceanic 38A Ted Brewer-designed masthead sloop featuring a skeg-mounted rudder for stability and predictable handlingBrewer 12.8Commissioned by the Knickerbocker Yacht Club, this cutter features a keel/centerboard hull for versatile shoal-water accessMariner 47 (Brewer)A Ted Brewer-designed masthead sloop with a skeg-hung rudder, later produced as the Islander 48C.

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