The Hunter
Legend 356 is the UK designation (to avoid confusion with
British Hunters, a different manufacturer) of the American
Hunter 356 design. The Hunter 356 is most immediately externally noticeable for
it's backstayless Bergstrom rig, and large cockpit arch, and internally has one of the most spacious interiors you will find on any production 35-36 footer. The Hunter 356 has quite a large sail area in a heavily mainsail-biased format, the power of the rig balanced by higher displacement than most other contemporary production boats of that length.
Beam
12' 4"
Cabins
Forecabin, saloon & aft cabin
Draught
5' 0"
Berths
7
Displacement
13,900 lbs
Engine
Yanmar 3GM30
Ballast
5,064 lbs
BHP
27
Keel type
Twin bulbed keels and spade rudder
Introduced in 2001, the Hunter Legend
356 was designed by Glenn Henderson as a bigger and
substantially more spacious replacement for the long-running
Hunter 340. Originally built only in the USA, Luhrs
opened a factory in Portland, Dorset, and built some
boats there, the UK versions having a twin keel option, as in the yacht for sale here. The twin keels are moderately deep and bulbed, giving good performance.
The design has a modern, beamy hull with a Bergstrom sloop rig, with swept-back
spreaders and
no backstay. Although the lack of a backstay worries
many people, in practice these rigs simply do not fall
down any more than do conventionally rigged cruising
boats. In the USA many of these boats are supplied with
in-mast furling mains, but most UK boats have a large
fully-battened mainsail, as shown in the photo and the plan at left. Most UK boats also appear to have saildrives instead of shaft drive props.
In around 2004 the design was modified very slightly to create the Hunter 36 model. Luhrs closed their factory in Dorset at the end of 2006, but the 36 continued in production in the USA until 2011 - the Hunter 36 having an identical hull and rig to the 356 but a slightly altered interior with a different galley layout.
The galley has two iceboxes, one refrigerated, and a microwave oven set into the cupboards above.
Below: The heads is split into two sections, with the WC and showering area
separated by
a translucent door, here seen open to show both areas.
Probably the best aft cabin on any boat under 36 ft - the "athwartships" double berth has
a padded headboard, outboard of which is a shelf and storage space, with a hanging locker
and an escape hatch into the cockpit overhead
The Hunter 356 has a Bergstrom & Ridder rig. This rig design was patented in the mid-1970s by two Swedish aero designers.
Hunter Boats have used variants of this rig on many production boats after the late Hunter Boats founder Warren Luhrs used it on his
ultralight Open 60 monohull "Thursday’s Child" that was the fastest monohull to finish the 1984 single-handed Transatlantic race, in a time remarkably close to the fastest trimaran.
The B&R rig
has no backstay, allowing a big mainsail with a lot of roach. The mast has swept-back spreaders and multiple diamond shrouds, plus on most of the later Hunters alloy tube sections stiffening the mast base.
Photographs March 2023
Above: The mainsail sheet comes to the stainless steel arch at the aft end of the cockpit, with two Lewmar 40 sheet winches mounted on the cockpit coaming.
Below: The cockpit has a full "camper cover".
Inventory:
Engine details
Yanmar 3GM30 three-cylinder diesel, fresh water cooled, run 1,329 hours, last service winter 2022/23
Fuel tank capacity
140 litres
Propeller
Three bladed on Saildrive with ropecutter
Batteries
2 x 110Ah services batteries and 75Ah engine start battery
Battery charging/electrics
Engine alternator and shorepower battery charger. Victron battery monitor.
Hyde Sails, partially fully battened mainsail, slab reefing with 3 reefs. Stackpack type cover.
Genoa
Hyde Sails
Genoa furling
Selden Furlex roller reefing
Primary winches
4 x Lewmar 40
Halliard winches
2 x Lewmar 30
Bower anchor
Delta with chain
Kedge anchors
Danforth
Anchor windlass
Simpson-Lawrence Anchorman electric windlass
Steering
Wheel ( Lewmar folding wheel )
Autopilot
Raymarine ST4000+
Steering compass
Danforth Saturn on binnacle
Warps & fenders
6 warps and 10 fenders
Miscellaneous
Sprayhood, full cockpit canopy, cockpit tonneau cover, wheel cover, dodgers.
Navigation Equipment and instruments
Radar
Raymarine RL70C 7" colour radar/plotter at chart table
GPS/Chartplotter
Raymarine eS97 Hybridtouch 9" colour plotter at helm - new 2017
Log/speed
Raymarine ST40
Depth sounder
Raymarine ST40
Windspeed/direction
Raymarine ST60
AIS
Raymarine AIS650 transmitter/receiver - new 2017
Navtex
NASA Clipper Navtex
VHF radio
Simrad RD68 with DSC
Radio receiver
Blaupunkt radio/MP3 player
Safety/emergency equipment
Lifebuoy
Horseshoe with floating light
Radar reflector
Yes
Bilge pumps
Manual and electric pumps
Miscellaneous
3 x fire extinguishers, auto engine fire extinguisher and fire blanket
Interior
Cabin layout
Forecabin, saloon and aft cabin
Cabin heating
Eberspacher Airtronic D4
Berths
7
Water tank capacity
284 litres. Hunter tank level monitor.
Cooker
Dometic Moonlight 2 two-burner and oven - new 2016. Remote gas control solenoid.
Microwave
Origo 230 volt microwave oven (operates when on shorepower)
Coolbox
Separate fridge and coolbox sections in galley
Heads
Jabsco
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