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Dehler 39 JV and SQ (1996 onwards) |
Brief details |
Builder |
Dehler Yachtbau GmbH, Germany. |
The Dehler 39 is powerful fast cruiser with a high quality interior in cherry wood, with two good double cabins. The Dehler 39 JV (illustrated here) was designed by Judel/Vrolijk and introduced in around 1996 as a fast cruiser, and remained in production for almost 15 years, although renamed (with perhaps very minor design alterations) the 39 SQ in 2004. She is a moderately heavy boat for her size, but with a big rig is still very much at the high performance end
of the cruiser and cruiser-racer spectrum.
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LOA |
38' 9" |
Sail area |
850 sq ft main and jib |
LWL |
36' 3" |
Rig |
Fractional sloop |
Beam |
12' 7" |
Cabins |
2 plus saloon |
Draught |
6' 6" |
Berths |
6 |
Displacement |
17,200 lbs |
Engine |
Yanmar 3JH3CE diesel |
Ballast |
6,500 lbs |
BHP |
40 |
Keel type |
Iron fin keel with lead bulb and spade rudder |
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Dehler in Germany started building smaller yachts in the 1960s, and by the 1980s had made a name for high quality and innovative cruising and racing yachts. For a while they were the largest yacht builder in Germany. The company went through several changes of ownership after the Dehler family sold out in the 1990s, and is now owned by Hanse, along with Moody and Fjord. Hanse have kept the Dehler brand separate, and still build well engineered fast cruisers - the current range is from 29 to 46 ft.
The hulls are of glass mat and uni-directional and multi-directional glass rovings with isopthalic polyester resins. Structural bulkheads are bonded to both the hull and deck, which are laminated together in the mould. The deck is a balsa-glass sandwich with laminated-in aluminium reinforcement plates for all fittings. The balanced spade rudder is mounted on a solid aluminium shaft with self-aligning rudder bearings. The high-aspect bulb keel has a cast iron fin with a lead bulb, and is fastened to the hull by stainless steel bolts. The triple-spreader fractional rig is keel-stepped.
The Dehler 39 JV and later SQ were offered with standard or deep keels, either 6' 6" or 7' 8" draught, and two choices of interior layouts, with single or twin aft cabins. The yacht illustrated here is a single aft cabin "owners" version with the more manageable 6' 6" keel, which is still deep enough to give excellent windward performance. Engines fitted were Yanmars of 27 or 40 hp with saildrives. |
There was an previous Dehler 39 model in the late 1980s designed by Van de Stadt,
the 39CWS, that being (somewhat surprisingly) a considerably lighter boat than this 39JV.
This earlier Dehler 39 resembles a larger version of the Dehler 36CWS - the CWS
standing for "central winch system).
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