Bristol Yachts 38.8
Masthead Sloop · Keel/centreboard · 1982–1996
A keel-centerboard masthead sloop produced for fourteen years, featuring a 47% ballast ratio for stiff performance
Designed by Ted Hood.
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Ballast
- Hull type
- Keel/Cbrd.
Is it for you?
Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her heavy displacement on a moderate beam gives 33 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.
1.81 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
299 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.
16.7 — moderate power for her weight; steady, all-round performance.
47% of her weight is ballast — stiff, standing up well to her sails.
A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.
- Draws more than ~96% of boats her size on file
Compared with 275 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
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