My apologies to those of you on this Freedom Yachts Forum. I posted two previous inquiries and have since learned I had been unwittingly swept up in a major storm of confusion regarding the information available to me at the time. The boat and related parts I asked for information on were confused because the previous (now deceased) owner had two boats, both named The Good Byte. One was indeed a Freedom 40’. However the other was/is a Grand Banks. I believe the remaining parts in question all belong to the Grand Banks, not the Freedom as I previously suspected and likely incorrectly assumed. I beg your pardon for any inconvenience this may have caused to this forum and/or any of its members. Thank you for your time, attention and hospitable attention nonetheless.
Sincerely, spinbuoy
I know of at least one F-40 that had a SABB (NOT Saab!) engine installed by the factory. This fact should add to the confusion about where the stuff comes from. This particular boat started life as a “kit” boat, and BTW had a variable-pitch propeller.
If you reference to the F40 with a Sabb is regarding hull no 21, “Long Reach” owned by Shellman Brown (aka “Freya” under Norm Friberg) - she is currently on the West Coast taking wing under the name “Raven” and has been seeing a revival including a partial rebuild of the Sabb. Which is now operating trouble and leak free and pushes the boat along happily with her 18 horse powers…
We would love to hear more about Shellman - we like everything he did to the boat.
Erik and Evi
I am guilty of the act of alerting Shellman about the Freedom 40. We worked together in the same building in IBM Poughkeepsie. I had acquired the Freedom literature of the day, with my interest in the Freedom 25. I shared this with Shellman, and shortly thereafter he purchased a sailaway “kit” boat from T-P. The F40 was on the hard at the Poughkeepsie Yacht Club (Hyde Park, NY) while Shellman moved his woodworking machinery into the cavernous hull, and proceeded to build her interior. As I recall, one of the memorable, periodic events at the PYC was when Shellman dug a giant hole under the boat and dropped the centerboard into it so that he could prep and paint the centerboard with bottom paint.
Shellman was one of those renaissance men with many talents, and he employed most of them on this project.