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M84224 |
Hunter Legend 295 |
Brief details |
Builder |
Hunter Marine Corporation, Alachua, Florida USA. |
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. |
LOA |
29' 6" |
Sail area |
406 sq ft |
LWL |
27' 0" |
Rig |
Sloop |
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 the yacht illustrated 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. |
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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. 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.
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.
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