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Hunter Legend 28 |
Brief notes
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Builder |
Hunter Marine Corporation, Alachua, Florida, USA. |
The Hunter Legend 28 is modern small sailing cruiser that ticks a lot of boxes - a good sized aft double berth in a separate cabin, wheel steering, excellent headroom and features such as hot and cold water, hot-air heating, etc. All this is packed into a trace over 28 feet, which keeps mooring bills down. She has a substantial fractional rig and a shallow draught winged lead keel. The Hunter Legends are very much designed
for comfort in a marina, particularly in warm climates, but
also provide good sailing performance in the sort of light
to moderate conditions most leisure sailors actually go out
in. |
LOA |
28' 2" |
Sail area |
399 sq ft |
LWL |
24' 2" |
Rig |
Fractional sloop |
Beam |
10' 6" |
Cabins |
Open plan saloon and separate aft cabin and heads |
Draught |
3' 9" |
Berths |
4-6 |
Displacement |
7,400 lbs |
Engine |
Yanmar diesel |
Ballast |
2,800 lbs |
BHP |
18 |
Keel type |
Lead wing keel and spade rudder |
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Hunter Marine, until recently run by Warren Luhrs, has since the early 1970s been a major US builder of sailing yachts, based in Florida. Although most of their production boats were aimed squarely at the family coastal cruising market they also built a number of racing designs including the water ballasted Open 60 "Thursdays Child", in which Luhrs set a record-breaking time in the 1984 OSTAR transatlantic race, and went on to set another record from New York to San Francisco round Cape Horn in 1989. In 2013 Hunter Marine in the USA became Marlow Hunter, and continues to build sailing yachts up to 50 feet in length.
The Hunter 28 was introduced in 1989 and was an update model for the earlier Hunter 28.5, the main differences being the addition of a "walk-through" sugarscoop transom and an aft double berth that was athwartships instead of fore and aft. The design has a large but conventional fractional rig with backstay, this design being before Hunter Legends switched to the backstayless Bergstrom rig. A number of Legend 28s were imported to the UK new in the aeraly 1990s by Hunter's then distributors Opal Marine.
When marketed in the UK, the American Hunters were normally sold as “Hunter Legends” to avoid confusion with the "British Hunters" which were entirely different. For a time the US Hunter Marine operated a second factory in Portland in Dorset, England, but this has now closed.
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