When someone tells you they have a Hunter, don't say anything...just wait. After a pause, they will tell you....It's a good boat, really it is! There's nothing wrong with the Hunter designs, just the scantlings! We had a Hunter 45 in the yard a number of years ago and it required twice the number of stands as normal to keep it from "hogging" Mark, Gratis (soon to have a rig up!) Want to keep your WHOLE PAYCHECK? PLEASE VISIT http://www.fairtax.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "tim ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:14 AM Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Advice for a potential C27 buyer
> Top speed ONLY 15 kn! Man, you ARE a rock star! > That's probably exceeding hull speed by 2.5X and not easy to maintain on > a displacement hull design! > > Best I ever saw on the Evelyn was 13.8 and that was with the Too Big > Kite up in a puffy little squall. Chris D was there > I think. > > Over 10kn in the Hunter I'd be nervous as a red fox in a beagle bin. > > 15 kn in a Hunter, I salute you!!! > > tf > unless maybe it was Hunter's Child????? > > > > > > > Rudolph S. Behar wrote: > > I have sailed some of the older, in fact, the oldest of the Hunters, > > three of them in fact, and they did, in fact, sail well in the winds I > > had them in, top speed only 15 knots. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.0/1344 - Release Date: 3/26/2008 8:52 AM
