The Bristol 39 is an American sailboat that was designed by Ted Hood as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1966.

The company produced 58 examples of the type, before production shifted to the Bristol 40.

[1][5] The Bristol 39 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.

It features a spooned raked stem, a raised counter reverse transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed modified long keel, with a cutaway forefoot.

[1] Bob Pingel, writing in Sailing Magazine in 2011 noted, "I recently conducted one of my cruising boat buyer's workshops and one of the attendees, Mark Mesone, was determined to buy a used Bristol 39 or 40 ... Mesone had concluded that the Bristol was the boat for him because it was beautiful, well built, large enough to live aboard with style, and when compared to more modern boats, quite affordable.