| The following description is adapted from the original Pearson 33 brochure distributed with each new boat sold.
Pearson 386
Cruising takes on as many forms as there are sailors enjoying it. And whether your pleasure comes from short daysails, long offshore passages or hours at anchor, there are definite characteristics of a good cruising boat that only years of experience can bring to the boat in which you choose to do it. While computers, high technology instrumentation and modern manufacturing methods assist us in our quest for the perfect boat, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that takes the place of experience.
For almost three decades Pearson designers and engineers have evolved a line of boats that illustrates attention to sailors' needs afloat. Meanwhile, Pearson marketers are questioning, probing, asking why. Staying close to the customer. The result has been a line of sailors' sailboats based on 28 years' experience and thousands of hours of practical knowledge. Boats that have a reputation for sailing well, and providing the characteristics one identifies with thinking it through.
The latest evidence of well-thought-out design is the Pearson 386. A powerful and stable 38-footer that will still be sailing well when the air is light and others have turned to auxiliary power. The overriding consideration, however, was to produce a responsive boat that was extremely easy to sail. Easy to steer. Easy to move around on deck. A boat with which two people, indeed one person, will feel confident.
She is a boat that experienced sailors admire because the common sense of her conventional styling above the waterline is time tested for convenience, efficiency and safety. The cockpit, cockpit, coachroof and foredeck make sense for going to sea as well as partying. Back rests are canted and seat edges are radiused for additional comfort. The helmsman's seat is raised and curved for comfortable steering on any angle of sail. The coachroof has a flat camber providing an excellent sail-handling platform and the foredeck has bulwarks for safe footing as well as a convenient anchor well.
Belowdecks, the arrangement is efficiently designed to the time-honored concept that form follows function. Spacious, logical and open.
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