Freedom Yachts 35 (Pedrick)

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See her sail

The Freedom Yachts 35 (Pedrick), on the water

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

Footage from Wildling Sailing

Is it for you?

Character

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

LivelySea-kindly

Her moderate displacement on a moderate beam gives 26 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.

Comfort ratio 26

CoastalBluewater

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

Capsize screening 1.97

LightHeavy

244 — moderately heavy for her waterline, a balanced cruising weight.

Displacement / length 244

EasygoingPowered-up

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

Sail area / displacement 16.4

TenderStiff

31% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.

Ballast 31%

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

Draws more than ~77% of boats her size on file

Compared with 2958 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Freedom Yachts 35 (Pedrick), as the fleet has seen it

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

The Freedom Yachts 35 (PEDRICK) is a fractional sloop designed by David Pedrick and built by Freedom Yachts from 1993 to the present. It features a free-standing rig, a fin keel with a spade rudder, measures 10.8 meters LOA, has a 3.7-meter beam, a 2.0-meter draft, and displaces 6627 kg. Aboard *Wildling Sailing*, a prospective buyer inspected a Freedom 35 cat ketch in Wales, noting its long keel with encapsulated ballast and balsa-cored hull.22:41 The boat was equipped with Victron battery chargers, a Chinese diesel heater, and a recently replaced wind speed instrument.14:50 The owner had updated mast wiring and installed new electrical switches for the windlass.8:25 The interior offered six feet of standing headroom and showed no leaks.25:17 The vessel included an aluminum-bottomed tender with a 5-horsepower Yamaha outboard and a new life raft.24:08 The buyer considered adding a watermaker, wind vane self-steering, and more solar panels for offshore cruising.17:48

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

What they go for

Market signal

Where the fleet has seen this model come up for sale.

1seen for sale

1channel looked into buying

Owner listed it on Facebook Marketplace for £28,000, willing to negotiate for the creator
from Wildling Sailingseen January 20230:46

From the fleet's own footage — our observed signal, not broker listings.

The record

Full specifications

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

Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

30.6%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Frac. Sloop (Free standing)

Ratios

SA / displacement

16.4

Displacement / length

244.0

Comfort ratio

26.1

Capsize screening

1.97

Hull speed

7.3 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

1282

Hull

Hull type

Fin w/spade rudder

Construction

Fiberglass

Ballast type

Lead

Production

Years built

First built 1993

Designer

David Pedrick

Builder

Freedom 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.

Freedom Yachts 40/40A David Pedrick-designed fractional sloop featuring a self-tending jib and a free-standing mast for simplified sailing Freedom Yachts 36A Gary Mull-designed cruiser featuring a freestanding fractional rig and a shoal-draft fin keel for easy handling Freedom Yachts 38An extended 38-foot evolution of the Freedom 36 offering flexible shoal, wing, or deep keel configurations Freedom Yachts 29A Garry Hoyt-designed fractional sloop with a fin keel and transom-hung rudder, built for simple, unstayed performance Freedom Yachts 32A 1980s performance cruiser featuring a 39% ballast ratio and a simple, unstayed fractional rig for easy handling

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