Freedom 25 Sailboats for Sale

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull Type

Monohull · fin

Rig

Cat Rig

LOA

25.67' · 7.82 m

Disp.

3,500 lbs · 1,588 kg

First year

1981

In the early 1980s, the pocketcruising market was dominated by traditional, stayed sloops that required constant winching, tedious headsail changes, and significant crew effort to manage. Garry Hoyt, the iconoclastic founder of Freedom Yachts, sought to dismantle this paradigm by introducing the Freedom 25 in 1981. Built by the highly regarded composite pioneers TillotsonPearson Inc. (TPI) in Rhode Island, the Freedom 25 was conceived as an antidote to the perceived complexities of modern sailing. By marrying an unstayed carbonfiber mast with a highly efficient, fully battened mainsail, Hoyt engineered a boat that could be rigged, sailed, reefed, and put away by a single person in a fraction of the time required by its contemporaries. It was a radical design that challenged the status quo, offering an effortless, dinghylike sailing experience wrapped in a trailerable, ballasted package.