The Freedom 39 PH is an American pilothouse schooner sailboat that was designed by Ron Holland and Gary Hoyt as a cruiser and first built in 1983.
[1][5] The boat was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States for Freedom Yachts, starting in 1983.
[1][4][6] The Freedom 39 PH is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass using a balsa core, with wooden trim.
It features a raked stem, a slightly reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel.
[4] In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "this cruiser was designed to offer the advantages of a schooner but with improved windward sailing characteristics.