Boat models · Hunter
Hunter Legend 40 Hunter 40-1
Sailboat, coastal cruiser · built 1984-1990 · designed by Cortland Steck
Key figures
Comfort24.3moderate
Capsize screen2.07fails the screen
SA/D18.7cruiser
D/L226moderate
Ballast ratio0.45stiff
Hull speed7.6kt
- Built
- 1984-1990
- Designer
- Cortland Steck
- Builder
- Hunter Marine (USA)
- Rig
- Masthead sloop (B&R rig)
- Keel
- Fin keel with spade rudder
- Length
- 39.6 ft
- Beam / draft
- 13.4 ft · 6.5 ft
- Displacement
- 17,400 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on sailboatdata.com.
Reputation
Classcoastal cruiseras owners use it
Forumsordinarydoes the job, nobody seeks it
Roomy, decent-sailing 80s Hunter, but the tankage and structural grid shortcuts show their age
- Coastal cruising
- respected · big, brawny, lots of room, sails well
- Offshore passages
- mixed · owners say capable, but tankage and joinery hold it back
- Liveaboard
- ordinary · huge volume and aft storage
- Loved
- amazing amount of interior room · points well, controlled in 45 knots · quick with new sails
- Gripes
- aft holding tank built into the hull grid · fuel and water each in a single tank · joinery called pedestrian · big transom makes boarding from the dinghy hard
- Survey for
- integral aft holding tank lid tabbing leaks · mild steel chainplate tie-rod anchors rusting in grid · aluminum water tank with no access ports · rust on iron keel; check the keel bolts
- Cross-shopped
- Hunter 40.5 · C&C 40 · Catalina 38 · O'Day 39
Owner opinion from forums.sailboatowners.com, sailnet.com, forums.sailboatowners.com, cruisersforum.com, forums.sailboatowners.com
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