Boat models · Hinterhoeller
Hinterhoeller Niagara 35
Sailboat, coastal cruiser · built 1978-1990 · designed by Mark Ellis
Key figures
Comfort28.7moderate
Capsize screen1.9passes for offshore
SA/D16.5cruiser
D/L329heavy
Ballast ratio0.39average
Hull speed6.9kt
- Built
- 1978-1990
- Designer
- Mark Ellis
- Builder
- Hinterhoeller Yachts Ltd. (CAN)
- Rig
- Masthead Sloop
- Keel
- Fin w/spade rudder
- Length
- 35.1 ft
- Beam / draft
- 11.4 ft · 5.2 ft
- Displacement
- 14,000 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on sailboatdata.com.
Reputation
Classcoastal cruiseras owners use it
Forumsrespectedpicked over its peers
Very well built, comfortable sea boat with a clever layout, but slow, especially in light air.
- Coastal cruising
- respected · solid build, comfortable motion, good layout
- Offshore passages
- respected · Hinterhoeller quality, seakindly hull
- Club racing
- mixed · short waterline, sluggish in light air
- Liveaboard
- ordinary · workable layout but dark interior
- Loved
- Hinterhoeller build quality · comfortable motion in a seaway · aft-galley Encore layout liked · built like a tank
- Gripes
- slow, weak in light air · short waterline for its LOA · dark interior · doesn't point very high
- Survey for
- wet balsa core in topsides · deck core moisture at fittings · neglected through-hulls · water in bilge from tanks or plumbing
- Cross-shopped
- CS 36 · C&C 35 · Bristol 35.5 · Pearson 35
Owner opinion from practical-sailor.com, sailnet.com, sailnet.com, forums.sailboatowners.com, forums.sailboatowners.com
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