Boat models · Hunter
Hunter Vision 32
Sailboat, coastal cruiser · built 1988-1994
Key figures
Comfort24.2moderate
Capsize screen2.01fails the screen
SA/D15.4undercanvassed
D/L259moderate
Ballast ratio0.39average
Hull speed7kt
- Built
- 1988-1994
- Builder
- Hunter Marine (USA)
- Rig
- Fractional sloop (free-standing)
- Keel
- Wing keel
- Length
- 32.0 ft
- Beam / draft
- 11.3 ft · 4.3 ft
- Displacement
- 11,400 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on sailboatdata.com.
Reputation
Classcoastal cruiseras owners use it
Forumsmixedfans and detractors
Easy-handling, roomy oddball; unstayed rig gives sloppy headstay and weak upwind
- Coastal cruising
- ordinary · comfortable and simple, but slow in light air
- Singlehanding
- respected · no stays, small jib, easy to short-hand
- Club racing
- disliked · sagging headstay hurts pointing
- Loved
- no shrouds, boom eases to 90° downwind · roomy, open interior for 32 ft · easy to handle short-handed · sheds gusts as mast tip bends
- Gripes
- headstay sags, poor upwind pointing · slow in light air · odd rig puts resale buyers off · hard to find parts for the one-off rig
- Survey for
- mast partner and step corrosion/cracking · headstay tension/rigging fittings · standard Hunter deck core moisture · jib furler and mast-top fittings
- Cross-shopped
- Freedom 32 · Nonsuch 30 · Catalina 30 · Hunter 33
Thin discussion; from forums.sailboatowners.com, sailnet.com
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