I am a new owner of a 94 Hunter Legend 37.5 Looking to check keel bolts with a torque wrench, and have yet to find any specified values at to how much each bolt should be torqued. Any comments regarding removing the bolts and washers, and re bedding them with 5200? Seeing some small amount of water seeping out of keel - hull join area externally with boat on the hard over the winter. No real sign of rust colored seepage, fortunately. Previous owner did not clean out bilge, so no idea how long water sat there. Bilge is clean and dry. Bolts, nuts and washers appear to be in excellent condition. Thanks! Peter
Hunter 37.5 Keel Bolts
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Check this out from the old Hunter Marine site by our friend Eddie Breeden. This is a pdf of the spreadsheet because uploads of excel files is disabled.Dan
Mars Metals in Canada produced the keels and if you inquire with them, they should know the information you need to know such as torque on those keel bolts. 905-632-3862
Interesting. I emailed Marlow-Hunter with this torque question for my h40.5 and never received an answer.
I wonder why all of the boats listed from a 33 to a 49 have between 5 and 10 keel bolts while my 40.5 only has THREE?
They must be really strong bolts? Ha. My guess is Eddie may have poster it without noticing his omission. At least you should be able to get the torque values.
@Dan_Y
As a former dealer and owner of American Marine & Sail Supply, most of you have no idea how dedicated Eddie Breeden at Hunter was in warranty and customer handling. If he needed to, Eddie reached out to all Hunter customers often working late for example one time on a Saturday night at 9 p.m. when I called to leave a message and he answered the phone . He also traveled a lot to meet with Hunter owners. He had no time for his hobbies serving Hunter owners. That in my books is called DEDICATION To Hunter Customers. However when over worked, we tend sometimes to make an omission and that included dealers as well but when he did, there was an apology. All I can say if we had people of his statue in Washington, this country would be better off. Eddie retired and I was honored to announce that here on HunterOwners. You have no idea the quality of this individual's dedication
As a former dealer and owner of American Marine & Sail Supply, most of you have no idea how dedicated Eddie Breeden at Hunter was in warranty and customer handling. If he needed to, Eddie reached out to all Hunter customers often working late for example one time on a Saturday night at 9 p.m. when I called to leave a message and he answered the phone . He also traveled a lot to meet with Hunter owners. He had no time for his hobbies serving Hunter owners. That in my books is called DEDICATION To Hunter Customers. However when over worked, we tend sometimes to make an omission and that included dealers as well but when he did, there was an apology. All I can say if we had people of his statue in Washington, this country would be better off. Eddie retired and I was honored to announce that here on HunterOwners. You have no idea the quality of this individual's dedication
Dave
I meant no disrespect to Eddie what so ever. Sorry if it came across that way. I was joking about the omission. Eddie helped me with several issues on my h30, some of which I have posted here so others could have the benefit of Eddie's help, even if they didn't know they needed it yet. Ha! Eddie always returned my emails and calls, which I always thought was top-notch customer service and made me glad I bought the Hunter brand. I have probably praised him or mentioned his help in multiple threads around this site.
So do you keep in touch with him? Hopefully his retirement is going well.
Peace!
Dan
I meant no disrespect to Eddie what so ever. Sorry if it came across that way. I was joking about the omission. Eddie helped me with several issues on my h30, some of which I have posted here so others could have the benefit of Eddie's help, even if they didn't know they needed it yet. Ha! Eddie always returned my emails and calls, which I always thought was top-notch customer service and made me glad I bought the Hunter brand. I have probably praised him or mentioned his help in multiple threads around this site.
So do you keep in touch with him? Hopefully his retirement is going well.
Peace!
Dan
Dan;
As to Greg Emerson and Eddie Breeden, both are doing fine but keeping in tradition not to reveal anything else, that is all I will say.
I do thank you for advising and it is refreshing to know Eddie helped you too Also thank you for your contributions to this forum.
As to Greg Emerson and Eddie Breeden, both are doing fine but keeping in tradition not to reveal anything else, that is all I will say.
I do thank you for advising and it is refreshing to know Eddie helped you too Also thank you for your contributions to this forum.
Actually Dave, I also admire the fact you are still sharing your unique knowledge with members of this forum. It's a gracious and selfless thing to take the time to do that.