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Conference unifix::sailing

Title:SAILING
Notice:Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference
Moderator:UNIFIX::BERENS
Created:Wed Jul 01 1992
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2299
Total number of notes:20724

1027.0. "half a Hunter" by AKOV12::DJOHNSTON () Mon Oct 24 1988 17:11

    Not to worry you Hunter owners but...
    
    Of the two Serendipity's that were lost last Saturday, one was seen
    floating off its mooring when it fell off a wave, broke if half
    and sank before ever hitting land.  Scary.
    
    Dave

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1027.1{Which .5??}MEMV01::LATHAMTue Oct 25 1988 08:455
    What length Hunter???
    
    Dave Latham (a Hunter 25.5 owner!) who rather keep the .5 attached
    to the 25.

1027.2EMASA2::HOTue Oct 25 1988 09:185
    Formerly a Hunter 50.  Now two Hunter 25's.
    
    - gene (who hauled early for the first time)

1027.3condos disguised as sailboatsGRAMPS::WCLARKWalt ClarkSat Nov 12 1988 21:259
    I saw Hunters come apart at Masthead during Gloria. Not the older
    ones, but the stuff built since about '83.  Real thin hulls, no
    glassed-in bulkheads, real weak exposed hull-deck seam, and nothing
    has anything like a backing plate (cleats and winches pulled out
    all over the place).  
    
    You get what you pay for.
    Walt

1027.4strange boat7990::RDFRick FricchioneSun Nov 27 1988 07:299
    The hunter 51 was one strange boat.  Didn't sell real well, but
    was supposedly very fast.   It seemed to carry precious little beam
    for a 51 foot boat (seemed like an 8 or 9' beam to me) to  be stable,
    and the construction I saw scared me.   
    
    Not suprised to hear one would snap in half in the right conditions.
    
    Rick