Our 1981 Gulfstar 39 Monohull Sailboat Keel

Our 1981 Gulfstar 39 Sailmaster has a fully encapsulated modified fin keel with a skeg hung rudder. The positive points of this design is that it's very sea kindly. She takes a great sea and with hef 43% ballast/displacement ratio, she's a very stiff boat. True Love is heavily laid up and weighs in at just over eleven tons when fully loaded. Due to her modified fin keel, shallow draft, and longer waterline, particularly for the time she was built, she sails well on all points of sail, but doesn't excel in any point of sail. She doesn't point high up into the wind and she's not particularly fast, down wind. But off the wind, in 15-20 knots of wind she's a 7-7.5 knot boat. With the tide and in the right conditions, we've topped 10 knots.