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Hunter Horizon 26 |
Brief details |
Builder |
British Hunter, Sutton Wharf, Rochford, Essex |
The Hunter Horizon
26 is a small cruising yacht with good accommodation and performance
in a compact form. The Hunters are amongst the best performing bilge-keeled
yachts on the market, 'Yachting Monthly' describing them as a
".... lively yet stable boat to sail, light on the helm and
responsive". |
LOA |
26' 4" |
Sail area |
290 sq ft main and jib |
LWL |
20' 8" |
Rig |
sloop |
Beam |
9' 0" |
Cabins |
Saloon and aft cabin |
Draught |
3' 3" bilge keels, 3' 3" shallow fin or 5' 0"
deep fin |
Berths |
6 |
Displacement |
4,600 lbs |
Engine |
inboard or outboard options |
Ballast |
1,840 lbs |
BHP |
6 - 9 |
Keel type |
Twin bilge keels (most common), also deep and shallow
fin keel versions |
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The Hunter Horizon 26 is a David Thomas design
for Hunter Boats, intended to be a slightly larger, more cruising-orientated
version of the 25 foot Hunter Delta, itself a development
of the very successful Hunter Sonata 24 foot one design cruiser-racer.
Introduced in 1984, the Horizon 26 design was one of the first
small British-built boat to have what was then the unusual
feature of an aft cabin and aft heads. The design was a success,
with about 160 built in four years, and led on to the later
Horizon 27, 272 and 273
variants. Although fin and lift-keel Horizon 26s were built,
the majority were twin bilge keeled, these twin keels being
fairly deep and giving good performance under sail. The Horizon
26 design remained in production until 1988.
The Horizon 26 was designed to have the choice of an outboard
in a cockpit well, typically 6 to 9 hp, or a small inboard
engine - usually a 9 hp Yanmar
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