Masthead Ketch · Fin keel, spade rudder · First built 1976
A masthead ketch featuring a fin keel and spade rudder, offering a spirited sail area-to-displacement ratio
Designed by Alberto Cabal, built by Nao Glass.
See her sail
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
Footage from A Son de Mar
Is it for you?
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her heavy displacement on a moderate beam gives 30 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.
1.85 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
286 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.
20.9 — plenty of sail for her weight; lively and quick to respond.
39% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.
Powered-up and quick to accelerate — this one likes to sail.
What the fleet has seen
Derived from the videos the fleet has analysed of this model. ▶ marks open the moment aboard.
The Puma 38-K is a 12.0-meter masthead ketch designed by Alberto Cabal and built by Nao Glass and Puma Yachts since 1976. It features a fin keel with a spade rudder, a 3.6-meter beam, a 1.9-meter draft, and displaces 7599 kg.
The living fleet
Where the fleet has filmed this boat.
Seen once across one channel of the fleet.
The record
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Boats like this, on the water
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The family
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