[1][4][5] The boat was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States for Freedom Yachts, starting in 1983.

[1][6] The Freedom 39 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wooden trim.

It has an aft cockpit and features a raked stem, a slightly reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel.

[1] The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4-108 50 hp (37 kW) for docking and maneuvering.

The galley is U-shaped and located on the port side, at the foot of the companionway steps.