center cockpit

Still looking to buy a cruising sailboat. For 2/3 years now we have been talking about buying/outfiting a boat for cruising the Caribbean. Are estimated departure date is Nov 2018. Which gives us about 2 months to close on our new boat/home. Unfortunately the last 3 boats we placed offers...

My wife and I are looking to buy a Hunter Passage 450/456 CC. There are only a few on Yacht World and I would prefer to buy one directly from the owner (no brokers).

I have a Hunter 340 with a 6 ft draft and large rudder that sails to windward very well. I'm interested in comments regarding how the Hunter center cockpit boats fair going to weather, especially the Passage 42.