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Hunter Legend 340				Price Guide	£48,000 to £62,000
Builder	Hunter Marine Corporation, Florida
Length OA	33' 6"	Sail Area	682 sq ft main and genoa
Length WL	28' 7"	Rig	Fractional sloop	Brief Notes
Beam	11' 8"	Cabins	3	Legend 340s are American-built Hunters, and offer remarkable interior space and comfort for the price. They are very much designed for comfort in a marina, particularly in warm climates, but also provide good sailing performance in the sort of light to moderate conditions most leisure sailors actually go out in
Draught	4' 6" shallow fin or 6' 6" deep fin	Berths	6
Displacement	11,030 lbs	Engine type	Yanmar diesel
Ballast	4,100 lbs	Engine bhp	27
Keel type	Fin keel and spade rudder

The Hunter Legend 340 is a development of the Hunter 335 and 336 boats from the early to mid 90s. Introduced in 1997, and sharing the same hull as the earlier versions, this yacht has the by now almost trademark Hunter cockpit arch supporting the mainsail sheet track, keeping the track well out of harms way for children in the large, family-friendly cockpit. The backstayless Bergström fractional rig with solid mast struts instead of one set of lower shrouds looks unusual, but has been well proven, and having the large roached mainsail as the main source of driving power makes handling easy, with lighter genoa sheet loads when tacking. Yachting Monthly described these boats as "...easy to sail, and reasonably quick".

These boats offer an amazingly spacious and well fitted interior, with a first class galley, including built in microwave (actually very useful), spacious heads compartment, and an aft cabin with an enormous double berth, expected to be used athwartships. The standard inventory from the factory is very comprehensive

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Above - aft cabin with double berth designed for use athwartships. While very comfortable in harbour, the 340 does not really have a single berth properly usable at sea . The saloon table has two folding leaves, allowing it to be used as a dinette-style 4-seater, or to seat the full six by using the starboard settee. The dinette converts to a double berth, and forward of this is the separate two berth forecabin (not shown)