Hunter Legend 35.5

Description

The Hunter Legend 35.5 (built 1986–1992, ~650 hulls) is one of the most successful and enduring 35-foot production cruisers Hunter ever made, and it helped cement the company’s reputation for big-volume, easy-sailing family boats. Designed by the Hunter Design Team under Cortland Steck, it measures 35 ft 7 in LOA with a very beamy 11 ft 9 in hull and a moderate displacement of 13,000 lbs (5,500 lbs ballast). It was offered with either a shoal-draft winged keel (4 ft) or a deeper fin (6 ft 4 in). It introduced the full B&R backstay-less fractional rig on a mid-30-footer, carrying a large roachy mainsail (~340 sq ft) and 135–150% roller-furling genoa (total upwind ~700–750 sq ft), giving genuinely lively performance for the era (PHRF typically 135–150). Key features include wheel steering, a huge T-shaped cockpit with one of the first production walk-through reverse transoms and integrated swim platform under 36 ft, and an extraordinarily bright, open interior: enormous aft cabin with an athwartships queen-size berth and private access to the head, spacious forward V-berth, large U-shaped galley, nav station, and over 6 ft 3 in headroom—genuinely sleeping six adults in real comfort.