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Hunter 336
I'd put a backstay on it if taking it into ocean for any length of time.
This would probably involve getting the main re-cut. Brady |
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Hunter 336
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 01:05:27 GMT, "Gary Webster"
wrote: I'd put a backstay on it if taking it into ocean for any length of time. This would probably involve getting the main re-cut. Brady From a Practical Sailor review discussing the B&R rig on a similar model (H310): Steve Pettengill broke a shroud when he was racing Hunter’s Child. “No way any other rig would have stayed in the boat, but the B&R did,” he said. “I jury-rigged it (four separate ways.) Good thing I did. We went through two capsizes and three gales after that, but it stood to the finish.” A home-brew backstay to the top of the mast pulling against the fractional height forestay would add some bending moments to the mast that I'd want to see computer-modeled by someone who knew more about rig engineering than I - like Lars Bergstrom. The backstay would eliminate the full-roach-main-plus-small-headsail advantage of the B&R, for which you've already payed the price of not being able to sail wing-and-wing dead downwind due to the sweptback spreaders. (Of course, alternate broad reaching - especially with an assymetirc spinnaker - usually gives faster VMG, anyway.) The B&R rig is designed for performance, as is the lightweight hull. (Although many Hunter-as-dockside-condominium buyers are being sold in-mast furling, which gives away much of that performance.) More to the point, the fine-entry/wide-stern hull, winged bulb keel and big spade rudder that Luhrs/Hunter love make these boats the last kind of vessel on which I'd ever want to try to lie-ahull in a storm. With all the windows in most Hunters, you don't want to passively wait for a multi-ton wave to break over your boat broadside, anyway. (The big cockpit is drained by a very big opening through the split transom, but until it drains out it holds a lot of pounds of water.) Even finding the right combination of reefed main and roller-reefed (or in many cases completely-furled) jib for heaving-to is tricky. In heavy weather these boats require active management, which is extremely tiring for small crews on long passages. They can handle some pretty rough stuff when so managed, but "the boat may be able to handle more than the crew can," as the saying goes. You'll hear crap from "I-never-owned-one-but" experts about hull soundness, etc., but today's Hunters of 10 meters and up are all CE Category A, and they use the same sound-but-mass-produced hulls Hunters have all had for quite a few years (including the under-10m.) Solid from keel to waterline; BalTek-cored from waterline to sheerline for weight reduction; Bergstrom-designed molded glass reinforcing grid; stainless-steel-bolted/5200-sealed, out-turning flanges on hull and on BalTek-cored deck with solid sections. Hand-layed, but all the same - no customization. Crank 'em out. They use quality, storebought deck and rig components (Selden, Furlex, Lewmar, Harken and Schaefer on mine). Assembly line. (1980s vintage Hunters had so many quality problems that I'd even suspect the hulls, but that's a prejudice. Since Luhrs gave up racing for actually managing his business, the quality has vastly improved.) If you haven't already looked there, see the owner reviews section at http://www.sailboatowners.com/boats/...29&fno=0&bts=T There are few boats that will not give you a lap full of ocean if you hit a semi-sunken cargo container at speed - and Hunters will, too. However, there are boats that don't have fin keels with wings on them to make them act like Bruce anchors in mud groundings g. Of course, many of the traditional full-keel, buy-by-the-pound long-passagers can't get out of their own way under sail. They also handle like the QE2 in tight quarters (like my crowded slip). My Hunter 310 can reverse course in less than 2 boat-lengths, and regularly exceeds the 1.34*SQRT(waterline) rule-of-thumb hull speed - as will many modern hulls with sugar-scoop sterns and fine buttock lines. The large-waterline-per-LOA design itself yields more speed than traditional large-overhang designs of similar length-over-all. For short passaging and coastal cruising, the Hunters give you a boat that's fun and easy to sail with minimal crew, fairly quick at it, and spacious far beyond its length - as long as 'spacious' is for people (and privacy), and doesn't include six month's supplies and spares of all important parts for third-world cruising. Bottom line: if I wanted to do long blue water passages single-handed, I'd stick with something that can be passively managed in a storm. No modern performance design is really good at that, including Hunters. If you want Volvo safety, don't buy a Ferarri. If you want Ferrari performance at a mass-production price, buy a Corvette - but don't complain about lack of higher fit-and-finish that you didn't pay for. Most blue water single-handers seem (to me) to be kind of restored-old-Mercedes types. Small Hunters are souped-up Chevies. Al s/v Persephone (1999 Hunter 310 out of Newburyport, MA) |
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Hunter 336
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 01:05:27 GMT, "Gary Webster"
wrote: I'd put a backstay on it if taking it into ocean for any length of time. This would probably involve getting the main re-cut. Brady From a Practical Sailor review discussing the B&R rig on a similar model (H310): Steve Pettengill broke a shroud when he was racing Hunter’s Child. “No way any other rig would have stayed in the boat, but the B&R did,” he said. “I jury-rigged it (four separate ways.) Good thing I did. We went through two capsizes and three gales after that, but it stood to the finish.” A home-brew backstay to the top of the mast pulling against the fractional height forestay would add some bending moments to the mast that I'd want to see computer-modeled by someone who knew more about rig engineering than I - like Lars Bergstrom. The backstay would eliminate the full-roach-main-plus-small-headsail advantage of the B&R, for which you've already payed the price of not being able to sail wing-and-wing dead downwind due to the sweptback spreaders. (Of course, alternate broad reaching - especially with an assymetirc spinnaker - usually gives faster VMG, anyway.) The B&R rig is designed for performance, as is the lightweight hull. (Although many Hunter-as-dockside-condominium buyers are being sold in-mast furling, which gives away much of that performance.) More to the point, the fine-entry/wide-stern hull, winged bulb keel and big spade rudder that Luhrs/Hunter love make these boats the last kind of vessel on which I'd ever want to try to lie-ahull in a storm. With all the windows in most Hunters, you don't want to passively wait for a multi-ton wave to break over your boat broadside, anyway. (The big cockpit is drained by a very big opening through the split transom, but until it drains out it holds a lot of pounds of water.) Even finding the right combination of reefed main and roller-reefed (or in many cases completely-furled) jib for heaving-to is tricky. In heavy weather these boats require active management, which is extremely tiring for small crews on long passages. They can handle some pretty rough stuff when so managed, but "the boat may be able to handle more than the crew can," as the saying goes. You'll hear crap from "I-never-owned-one-but" experts about hull soundness, etc., but today's Hunters of 10 meters and up are all CE Category A, and they use the same sound-but-mass-produced hulls Hunters have all had for quite a few years (including the under-10m.) Solid from keel to waterline; BalTek-cored from waterline to sheerline for weight reduction; Bergstrom-designed molded glass reinforcing grid; stainless-steel-bolted/5200-sealed, out-turning flanges on hull and on BalTek-cored deck with solid sections. Hand-layed, but all the same - no customization. Crank 'em out. They use quality, storebought deck and rig components (Selden, Furlex, Lewmar, Harken and Schaefer on mine). Assembly line. (1980s vintage Hunters had so many quality problems that I'd even suspect the hulls, but that's a prejudice. Since Luhrs gave up racing for actually managing his business, the quality has vastly improved.) If you haven't already looked there, see the owner reviews section at http://www.sailboatowners.com/boats/...29&fno=0&bts=T There are few boats that will not give you a lap full of ocean if you hit a semi-sunken cargo container at speed - and Hunters will, too. However, there are boats that don't have fin keels with wings on them to make them act like Bruce anchors in mud groundings g. Of course, many of the traditional full-keel, buy-by-the-pound long-passagers can't get out of their own way under sail. They also handle like the QE2 in tight quarters (like my crowded slip). My Hunter 310 can reverse course in less than 2 boat-lengths, and regularly exceeds the 1.34*SQRT(waterline) rule-of-thumb hull speed - as will many modern hulls with sugar-scoop sterns and fine buttock lines. The large-waterline-per-LOA design itself yields more speed than traditional large-overhang designs of similar length-over-all. For short passaging and coastal cruising, the Hunters give you a boat that's fun and easy to sail with minimal crew, fairly quick at it, and spacious far beyond its length - as long as 'spacious' is for people (and privacy), and doesn't include six month's supplies and spares of all important parts for third-world cruising. Bottom line: if I wanted to do long blue water passages single-handed, I'd stick with something that can be passively managed in a storm. No modern performance design is really good at that, including Hunters. If you want Volvo safety, don't buy a Ferarri. If you want Ferrari performance at a mass-production price, buy a Corvette - but don't complain about lack of higher fit-and-finish that you didn't pay for. Most blue water single-handers seem (to me) to be kind of restored-old-Mercedes types. Small Hunters are souped-up Chevies. Al s/v Persephone (1999 Hunter 310 out of Newburyport, MA) |
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Hunter 336
it is difficult to find a yacht broker who is willing to say that he personally
would take a Hunter offshore, even when he has a bunch of Hunters on the hard for sale. Yacht brokers willing to sell used Hunters at all, usually will make mention of offshore Hunters showing up with broken tabbing, loose decks, flexed hulls and a host of other issues having to do with structural integrity. Most brokers who specialize in offhshore sailboats won't list Hunters. About the only people who claim Hunters are offshore boats are those who write Hunter advertising and Hunter owners who daysail with the occasional overnighter in decent sailing conditions. Hunters are boats best suited for "coastal cruising". On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 01:05:27 GMT, "Gary Webster" wrote: I'd put a backstay on it if taking it into ocean for any length of time. This would probably involve getting the main re-cut. Brady From a Practical Sailor review discussing the B&R rig on a similar model (H310): Steve Pettengill broke a shroud when he was racing Hunter’s Child. “No way any other rig would have stayed in the boat, but the B&R did,� he said. “I jury-rigged it (four separate ways.) Good thing I did. We went through two capsizes and three gales after that, but it stood to the finish.� A home-brew backstay to the top of the mast pulling against the fractional height forestay would add some bending moments to the mast that I'd want to see computer-modeled by someone who knew more about rig engineering than I - like Lars Bergstrom. The backstay would eliminate the full-roach-main-plus-small-headsail advantage of the B&R, for which you've already payed the price of not being able to sail wing-and-wing dead downwind due to the sweptback spreaders. (Of course, alternate broad reaching - especially with an assymetirc spinnaker - usually gives faster VMG, anyway.) The B&R rig is designed for performance, as is the lightweight hull. (Although many Hunter-as-dockside-condominium buyers are being sold in-mast furling, which gives away much of that performance.) More to the point, the fine-entry/wide-stern hull, winged bulb keel and big spade rudder that Luhrs/Hunter love make these boats the last kind of vessel on which I'd ever want to try to lie-ahull in a storm. With all the windows in most Hunters, you don't want to passively wait for a multi-ton wave to break over your boat broadside, anyway. (The big cockpit is drained by a very big opening through the split transom, but until it drains out it holds a lot of pounds of water.) Even finding the right combination of reefed main and roller-reefed (or in many cases completely-furled) jib for heaving-to is tricky. In heavy weather these boats require active management, which is extremely tiring for small crews on long passages. They can handle some pretty rough stuff when so managed, but "the boat may be able to handle more than the crew can," as the saying goes. You'll hear crap from "I-never-owned-one-but" experts about hull soundness, etc., but today's Hunters of 10 meters and up are all CE Category A, and they use the same sound-but-mass-produced hulls Hunters have all had for quite a few years (including the under-10m.) Solid from keel to waterline; BalTek-cored from waterline to sheerline for weight reduction; Bergstrom-designed molded glass reinforcing grid; stainless-steel-bolted/5200-sealed, out-turning flanges on hull and on BalTek-cored deck with solid sections. Hand-layed, but all the same - no customization. Crank 'em out. They use quality, storebought deck and rig components (Selden, Furlex, Lewmar, Harken and Schaefer on mine). Assembly line. (1980s vintage Hunters had so many quality problems that I'd even suspect the hulls, but that's a prejudice. Since Luhrs gave up racing for actually managing his business, the quality has vastly improved.) If you haven't already looked there, see the owner reviews section at http://www.sailboatowners.com/boats/...29&fno=0&bts=T There are few boats that will not give you a lap full of ocean if you hit a semi-sunken cargo container at speed - and Hunters will, too. However, there are boats that don't have fin keels with wings on them to make them act like Bruce anchors in mud groundings g. Of course, many of the traditional full-keel, buy-by-the-pound long-passagers can't get out of their own way under sail. They also handle like the QE2 in tight quarters (like my crowded slip). My Hunter 310 can reverse course in less than 2 boat-lengths, and regularly exceeds the 1.34*SQRT(waterline) rule-of-thumb hull speed - as will many modern hulls with sugar-scoop sterns and fine buttock lines. The large-waterline-per-LOA design itself yields more speed than traditional large-overhang designs of similar length-over-all. For short passaging and coastal cruising, the Hunters give you a boat that's fun and easy to sail with minimal crew, fairly quick at it, and spacious far beyond its length - as long as 'spacious' is for people (and privacy), and doesn't include six month's supplies and spares of all important parts for third-world cruising. Bottom line: if I wanted to do long blue water passages single-handed, I'd stick with something that can be passively managed in a storm. No modern performance design is really good at that, including Hunters. If you want Volvo safety, don't buy a Ferarri. If you want Ferrari performance at a mass-production price, buy a Corvette - but don't complain about lack of higher fit-and-finish that you didn't pay for. Most blue water single-handers seem (to me) to be kind of restored-old-Mercedes types. Small Hunters are souped-up Chevies. Al s/v Persephone (1999 Hunter 310 out of Newburyport, MA) |
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Hunter 336
it is difficult to find a yacht broker who is willing to say that he personally
would take a Hunter offshore, even when he has a bunch of Hunters on the hard for sale. Yacht brokers willing to sell used Hunters at all, usually will make mention of offshore Hunters showing up with broken tabbing, loose decks, flexed hulls and a host of other issues having to do with structural integrity. Most brokers who specialize in offhshore sailboats won't list Hunters. About the only people who claim Hunters are offshore boats are those who write Hunter advertising and Hunter owners who daysail with the occasional overnighter in decent sailing conditions. Hunters are boats best suited for "coastal cruising". On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 01:05:27 GMT, "Gary Webster" wrote: I'd put a backstay on it if taking it into ocean for any length of time. This would probably involve getting the main re-cut. Brady From a Practical Sailor review discussing the B&R rig on a similar model (H310): Steve Pettengill broke a shroud when he was racing Hunter’s Child. “No way any other rig would have stayed in the boat, but the B&R did,� he said. “I jury-rigged it (four separate ways.) Good thing I did. We went through two capsizes and three gales after that, but it stood to the finish.� A home-brew backstay to the top of the mast pulling against the fractional height forestay would add some bending moments to the mast that I'd want to see computer-modeled by someone who knew more about rig engineering than I - like Lars Bergstrom. The backstay would eliminate the full-roach-main-plus-small-headsail advantage of the B&R, for which you've already payed the price of not being able to sail wing-and-wing dead downwind due to the sweptback spreaders. (Of course, alternate broad reaching - especially with an assymetirc spinnaker - usually gives faster VMG, anyway.) The B&R rig is designed for performance, as is the lightweight hull. (Although many Hunter-as-dockside-condominium buyers are being sold in-mast furling, which gives away much of that performance.) More to the point, the fine-entry/wide-stern hull, winged bulb keel and big spade rudder that Luhrs/Hunter love make these boats the last kind of vessel on which I'd ever want to try to lie-ahull in a storm. With all the windows in most Hunters, you don't want to passively wait for a multi-ton wave to break over your boat broadside, anyway. (The big cockpit is drained by a very big opening through the split transom, but until it drains out it holds a lot of pounds of water.) Even finding the right combination of reefed main and roller-reefed (or in many cases completely-furled) jib for heaving-to is tricky. In heavy weather these boats require active management, which is extremely tiring for small crews on long passages. They can handle some pretty rough stuff when so managed, but "the boat may be able to handle more than the crew can," as the saying goes. You'll hear crap from "I-never-owned-one-but" experts about hull soundness, etc., but today's Hunters of 10 meters and up are all CE Category A, and they use the same sound-but-mass-produced hulls Hunters have all had for quite a few years (including the under-10m.) Solid from keel to waterline; BalTek-cored from waterline to sheerline for weight reduction; Bergstrom-designed molded glass reinforcing grid; stainless-steel-bolted/5200-sealed, out-turning flanges on hull and on BalTek-cored deck with solid sections. Hand-layed, but all the same - no customization. Crank 'em out. They use quality, storebought deck and rig components (Selden, Furlex, Lewmar, Harken and Schaefer on mine). Assembly line. (1980s vintage Hunters had so many quality problems that I'd even suspect the hulls, but that's a prejudice. Since Luhrs gave up racing for actually managing his business, the quality has vastly improved.) If you haven't already looked there, see the owner reviews section at http://www.sailboatowners.com/boats/...29&fno=0&bts=T There are few boats that will not give you a lap full of ocean if you hit a semi-sunken cargo container at speed - and Hunters will, too. However, there are boats that don't have fin keels with wings on them to make them act like Bruce anchors in mud groundings g. Of course, many of the traditional full-keel, buy-by-the-pound long-passagers can't get out of their own way under sail. They also handle like the QE2 in tight quarters (like my crowded slip). My Hunter 310 can reverse course in less than 2 boat-lengths, and regularly exceeds the 1.34*SQRT(waterline) rule-of-thumb hull speed - as will many modern hulls with sugar-scoop sterns and fine buttock lines. The large-waterline-per-LOA design itself yields more speed than traditional large-overhang designs of similar length-over-all. For short passaging and coastal cruising, the Hunters give you a boat that's fun and easy to sail with minimal crew, fairly quick at it, and spacious far beyond its length - as long as 'spacious' is for people (and privacy), and doesn't include six month's supplies and spares of all important parts for third-world cruising. Bottom line: if I wanted to do long blue water passages single-handed, I'd stick with something that can be passively managed in a storm. No modern performance design is really good at that, including Hunters. If you want Volvo safety, don't buy a Ferarri. If you want Ferrari performance at a mass-production price, buy a Corvette - but don't complain about lack of higher fit-and-finish that you didn't pay for. Most blue water single-handers seem (to me) to be kind of restored-old-Mercedes types. Small Hunters are souped-up Chevies. Al s/v Persephone (1999 Hunter 310 out of Newburyport, MA) |
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Hunter 336
Yacht brokers willing to sell used Hunters at all, usually will make
mention of offshore Hunters showing up with broken tabbing, loose decks, flexed hulls and a host of other issues having to do with structural integrity. Jax, I personally know a fellow who made structural repairs to hunters in the early 90's due to severe hull flex. That said, Hunter has much improved over recent years. I was recently aboard a few of their DS yachts and I was impressed. I think Hunter has matched the quality of Catalina (a smart move) in recent years and is better than Beneteau. I repeatedly see Beneteau's with issues and I'd never buy one. Anyone going offshore would generally be happier with something purpose built-you're right on that account. RB |
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Yacht brokers willing to sell used Hunters at all, usually will make
mention of offshore Hunters showing up with broken tabbing, loose decks, flexed hulls and a host of other issues having to do with structural integrity. Jax, I personally know a fellow who made structural repairs to hunters in the early 90's due to severe hull flex. That said, Hunter has much improved over recent years. I was recently aboard a few of their DS yachts and I was impressed. I think Hunter has matched the quality of Catalina (a smart move) in recent years and is better than Beneteau. I repeatedly see Beneteau's with issues and I'd never buy one. Anyone going offshore would generally be happier with something purpose built-you're right on that account. RB |
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