shaun wrote in news:4550b349$0$3042$5a62ac22@per-
qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:

What i am looking for is REAL not percieved or imagined faults with the
hunter 34 1980 to 1987 type, deep keel tall rig. 80% of my sailing will
be offshore coastal along the Western Australian coast.


Nice boat if you never leave the harbor. To realize what I'm saying, take
a battery-powered portable drill with a hole saw attachment on it and make
a hole about 30cm below the toerail for a new bilge pump fitting to go in.

Take the plastic plug out of the hole saw and look at the edge of it and
notice its thickness...number of layers of fiberglass...guess its strength.

You're going offshore in the big waves in this thin a hull?!

Look under the cockpit seats at the hull. See all those supports making
this really thin hull so stiff it can't possibly flex or crack when that
big 18' monster crashes into it 50 km off Melbourne? I didn't.

Like I say....Nice boat if you're never going to leave the harbor. I put
an installed Whale hand pump in a friends Hunter 34. When I showed up with
a hole saw in a little portable drill, he thought it was funny and I'd
never drill through the hull for the outlet fitting. Boy, was he
shocked...(c;

Larry
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