A hex / pox on the Hunter installers.

Scott B

Scott B

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Sep 20, 2006
2,952
Hunter 33 Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada
Whoever had the brain fart at hunter era 2005 et al, to think it was a good idea to install zip ties on the hoses to the galley drain, head and lastly the head hose to the holding tank at exact elbow length from the small crammed access hatches, I send a hex on you....
Just spent all day replacing the head hose and head today. Last week was hoses to the galley drain. Try squeezing your arm up to the elbow in the tiny access fibreglass access and manipulating a pair of side cutters to get at a zip tie just to remove a hose.
Worse was trying to install the new waste hose through a hole jammed with wiring conduits.
I could go on with the words I had expressed today but I would end up having to ban myself .... ;).
 
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Peggie Hall HeadMistress

Peggie Hall HeadMistress

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Dec 2, 1997
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- - LIttle Rock
You have my sympathy. However, not only Hunter but just about every other boat builder too deserves a pox on his head through 10 generations of descendants. I've seen a lot of installations that have left me wondering "what WERE they THINKING???" IF they even bothered to think! But the one I measure against every one since was the owner of a 38' MY who hired me to find the source of the odor inside the boat and get rid of it. Finding the source took me all of 5 minutes--it was the hoses. Removing 'em was another story. The builder had put the holding tank under the cabin sole at the foot of the master berth in the bow (I've never seen anywhere near that many hoses and unions in about 5' of toilet discharge hose before or since!) and had run both the vent line and the pumpout line over to the hull, then all the way to cockpit--about 30'. That was bad enough, but they'd c-clamped both hoses to the hull every 3'...no way to get the hoses out without removing all the galley, head and saloon cabinets and wall coverings...and then putting it all back. But without any hoses behind it. We did what the builder should have done in the first place: ran the vent to a new thru-hull near the bow and the pumpout line behind a liner to new deck pumpout fitting the side deck above the vent.
 
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Warren Milberg

Warren Milberg

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Dec 1, 1999
2,391
Hunter 28.5 Chesapeake Bay
These are the same people who mounted the Yanmar raw water intake pump facing aft and created false bilges in a number of Hunter designs. The question is not "what were they thinking," but rather "are they capable of thought at all?"
 
Bill Roosa

Bill Roosa

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Jun 6, 2006
6,990
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Most of those zip tie constructions would be better accomplished with th proper tool. They use zip ties because of the cramped conditions...... and can use a pair of zip tie pliers....... instead of a screwdriver......
 
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viper

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Jul 31, 2016
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Hunter 380 Cape Coral, Fl
Do want my electronics guy does... just cut bigger access holes...lol or add new ones, and cover with a different color of plastic access port.

I would imagine the builder does much of this work, before sandwiching the boat together.

I also bet they thought that they were not really building boats for 30 year lives.


By the way my electronics guys says as bad as it is... its better than on most of the boats they work on. Hard to imagine!

Regards,

Viper
 
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