C&C Yachts Landfall 39

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The C&C Yachts Landfall 39, on the water

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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

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

Capsize screening 1.82

LightHeavy

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

Displacement / length 292

EasygoingPowered-up

14.8 — modest power for her weight; easygoing rather than lively, and happier with a breeze.

Sail area / displacement 14.8

TenderStiff

32% of her weight is ballast — on the tender side; she'll heel readily and want a reef sooner.

Ballast 32%

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

Heavier than ~76% of boats her size on file

Compared with 2905 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The C&C Yachts Landfall 39, as the fleet has seen it

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The C&C Yachts Landfall 39 is a masthead sloop designed by C&C Design and Rob Ball, built by C&C Yachts from 1985 to 1989. This center-cockpit cruiser has an LOA of 11.8 meters, a beam of 3.7 meters, and a draft of 1.7 meters, displacing 8845 kg. It features a fin keel with a rudder on a skeg and was available with an optional shoal keel. The model carries two 32-gallon amidship water tanks and one 39-gallon forward tank.14:51 Aboard *Imua*, a Landfall 39, the crew sailed in light winds, reaching speeds of 4.5 knots, and anchored at Belandra.19:06

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

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The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

32.0%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Masthead Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

14.8

Displacement / length

292.2

Comfort ratio

32.1

Capsize screening

1.82

Hull speed

7.5 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

1357

Hull

Hull type

Fin with rudder on skeg

Construction

Fiberglass

Ballast type

Lead

Production

Years built

1985–1989

Units built

15

Designer

C&C Design, Rob Ball

Builder

C&C Yachts

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Related models

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

C&C Yachts Landfall 35A sturdy masthead sloop featuring a skeg-mounted rudder and moderate displacement, designed for comfortable cruising C&C Yachts Landfall 38A cruising-focused variant of the C&C 38-2 hull, featuring a shallower keel and shorter rig for versatile coastal work C&C Yachts Landfall 43A robust masthead sloop from C&C designed for comfortable cruising with a skeg-mounted rudder and moderate draft C&C Yachts Landfall 42A cutter-rigged cruiser from 1976 featuring a skeg-mounted rudder and a balanced hull designed for offshore stability C&C Yachts Landfall 48A cutter-rigged cruiser with a skeg-mounted rudder, designed by C&C for offshore comfort and stability C&C Yachts 39A 1971-1974 production masthead sloop with a moderate displacement-to-length ratio, balanced for coastal cruising

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