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Hunter Legend 356 |
Brief details |
Builder |
Hunter Marine Corporation/Luhrs Marine Ltd.,
built in Florida, USA, and Dorset, England. |
The Hunter
Legend 356 is the UK designation (to avoid confusion with
British Hunters, a different manufacturer) of the American
Hunter 356 design. Immediately popular thanks to a very spacious
interior, the Hunter 356 is most immediately noticeable for
it's backstayless Bergstrom rig, and large cockpit arch. |
LOA |
34' 6" |
Sail area |
805 sq ft |
LWL |
30' 7" |
Rig |
Bergstrom sloop rig |
Beam |
12' 4" |
Cabins |
Forecabin, saloon & aft cabin |
Draught |
6' 5" fin or 5' 0" shoal fin or bilge keels |
Berths |
6/7 |
Displacement |
13,900 lbs |
Engine |
usually Volvo Penta MD3B |
Ballast |
5,064 lbs |
BHP |
36 |
Keel type |
Deep or shallow lead fin keels, or twin bilge keels on some UK-built boats |
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Introduced in 2001, the Hunter Legend
356 was designed by Glenn Henderson as a bigger and
substantially more spacious replacement for the long-running
Hunter 340. Originally built only in the USA, Luhrs
opened a factory in Portland, Dorset, and built some
boats there.
The design has a modern, beamy hull with a choice of
keels, including on UK-built and finished boats, twin
bilge keels. The rig is a Bergstrom sloop, with swept-back
spreaders, fixed rods supporting the lower mast and
no backstay. Although the lack of a backstay worries
many people, in practice these rigs simply do not fall
down any more than on conventionally rigged cruising
boats. In the USA many of these boats are supplied with
in-mast furling mains, but most UK boats have a large
fully-battened mainsail, as shown on the plan at left.
Most UK boats also appear to have saildrives instead of shaft drive props.
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