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what year hunter was this? I just redid my holding tank and installed all
new plumbing to included a new thru hull and on my 1981 hunter 37 cutter the hull for the holding tank pump out was at least 3/4 of an inch thick if not more. Previous owners have cruised with this boat all over to include the carribean, mexico, hawaii. Now I admit I know nothing about nothing when it comes to boats but to my uneducated eye it looked pretty solid and thick enough for my comfort. "Larry" wrote in message ... 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 -- Halloween candy left over..... Is there a downside? |
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