The Sun Odyssey 39 DS (Deck Salon) is a French sailboat that was designed by Marc Lombard and Vittorio Garroni as a cruiser and first built in 2008. Production The design was built by Jeanneau in France, starting in 2008, but it is now out of production. Design The Sun Odyssey 39 DS is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of resin-injected polyester fiberglass, with a core of end-grain balsa. It has a 9/10 fractional sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, two sets of swept spreaders and aluminum spars with continuous stainless steel 1X19 wire rigging. An in-mast furling mainsail was a factory option. The hull has a raked stem, a reverse transom with a swimming platform, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by dual wheels and a fixed fin keel, deep draft fin keel or optional shoal-draft keel. A "performance" version has a mast that is about taller and a sail area that is 17% larger. The fin keel model displaces and carries of cast iron ballast, the deep draft version carries of ballast, while the shoal draft version displaces and carries of ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel, with the deep draft keel and with the optional shoal draft keel. The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 3JH4E diesel engine of for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of . The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, a "U"-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a transversal double berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the starboard, side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is "L"-shaped and is equipped with a two-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the port side. The head is located just aft of the companionway on the port side and includes a shower. The cabin maximum headroom is . For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of . The design has a hull speed of . Operational history A Cruising World review in January 2007 by Andrew Burton stated, "the twin wheels allow the helmsman to get well outboard with a good view of the sails, and the primary winches are immediately