The Hunter Legend 295 is a modern small sailing cruiser with wheel steering and excellent interior headroom. She has a largely open plan interior which gives a feeling of space below, and a substantial fractional rig and a lead winged keel. The Hunter Legends are very much designed
for comfort in a marina, but
also provide good sailing performance in the sort of light
to moderate conditions most leisure sailors actually go out
in.
Beam
10' 7"
Cabins
Open plan & heads
Draught
4' 9" *
Berths
max 6
Displacement
7,056 lbs
Engine
Volvo diesel
Ballast
2,680 lbs
BHP
18
Keel type
Lead winged fin keel and spade rudder
* Most Legend 295s appear to have a 4' 0" draught wing keel, but this yacht has 4' 9" quoted in the builders certificate for this hull, and this appears to be the case for this yacht. It could be that some yachts destined for the UK were fitted with deeper keels.
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. These race boats were testbeds for the backstayless B&R rig used subsequently in many production Hunters. In 2013 Hunter Marine in the USA became Marlow Hunter, and continues to build sailing yachts up to 50 feet in length.
The Hunter 295 was introduced in 1994 and has a large cockpit with wheel steering and a "walk-through" sugarscoop transom. The interior is fully open plan except for an enclosed heads, and has an aft double berth that is athwartships instead of fore and aft. The rig has a large roached fully battened mainsail and a relatively small headsail. This yacht was imported to the UK new 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 from an entirely different builder. For a time the US Hunter Marine operated a second factory in Portland in Dorset, England, but this has now closed.
Yachtsnet photographs January 2024, owners photos various dates
Hunter chose to make the interior almost fully open plan, except for
the separate heads compartment. With 6' 2" headroom by the galley,
and only slightly less forward, it makes the interior look large
for a yacht of under 30 feet.
The backstayless Bergström & Ridder fractional rig
with very swept-back spreaders
looks unusual, but has been well proven, and having the
large roached mainsail as the main source of driving power
makes handling easy, with lighter genoa sheet loads when
tacking.
Inventory:
Engine details
Volvo Penta MD2020 three-cylinder diesel, freshwater cooled, last serviced February 2024
Fuel tank capacity
90 litres
Propeller
2 bladed on Saildrive (Saildrive seal replaced February 2024)
Batteries
210AH domestic battery and separate engine start battery
Battery charging/electrics
Engine alternator and Sterling 30 amp shorepower battery charger. Merlin Smartgauge battery monitor. 2,000 watt inverter and 3 x 13 amp outlets.
Sails
and deck equipment
Rig details
Bergstrom & Ridder backstayless fractional sloop. Selden alloy spars and rod kicker with S/S standing rigging
Mainsail
Fully battened mainsail with large roach, single line slab reefing (2 reefs) with lazyjacks
Genoa
113% Roller genoa
Genoa furling
Selden Furlex
Primary winches
2 x Lewmar 16 self-tailing
Halliard winches
2 x Lewmar 16 self-tailing on coachroof
Bower anchor
Delta 16 Kg with 20 metres chain and 30 metres warp
Steering
Wheel
Autopilot
Raymarine SPX5 wheelpilot with ST4000 Mk II drive
Steering compass
Silva
Warps & fenders
6 warps and 6 fenders
Miscellaneous
Full cockpit enclosure
Navigation Equipment and instruments
Radar
Raymarine radar on pole mount aft of cockpit, displays on chartplotter
GPS/Chartplotter
Raymarine C80 8" colour plotter in cockpit
Log/speed
Raymarine ST30
Depth sounder
Raymarine ST40 Depth
Windspeed/direction
Tacktick ST60 Wind
VHF radio
Standard Horizon GX3000E with DSC and command mic in cockpit
AIS receiver
Comar SLR200 dual channel
Safety/emergency equipment
Lifebuoy
Horseshoe with floating light
MOB equipment
Lifesling
Radar reflector
Trilens on mast
Bilge pumps
Electric pump
Miscellaneous
2 x fire extinguishers
Interior
Cabin layout
Open plan with separate heads
Berths
max 6
Water tank capacity
120 litres
Cooker
Hillerange 2-burner with oven and grill
Coolbox
Refrigerated coolbox
Heads
Jabsco electric
Miscellaneous
Dinghy
*
Waveline 2.3M inflatable - available by separate negotiation
Outboard
*
2.3 hp Mariner outboard - available by separate negotiation
Cradle
*
Shore storage cradle - available by separate negotiation
These particulars
are believed to be correct but cannot be guaranteed and are subject
to confirmation by the purchaser subject to still being available.
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