I am on Lake St Clair in the Great Lakes, and I have a 1980 36 footer. I found no references in the forum for a 36. Are they that rare?
Any H36 Cherubini Owners?
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Check rardiH36
He and others post on the Cherubini Hunter forum.
There are over 15 reviews of the design under H36 80-82.
Given the shorter production run, and alternative of the H37c, there were fewer H36's produced, but I don't know the number.
He and others post on the Cherubini Hunter forum.
There are over 15 reviews of the design under H36 80-82.
Given the shorter production run, and alternative of the H37c, there were fewer H36's produced, but I don't know the number.
There are a few here in Cherubini land. "Rardi" is probably the most prolific. Here is one of his threads: http://forums.hunter.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?p=869548&highlight=and the . Here's Tony in Florida with his H36: http://forums.hunter.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?p=843406&highlight=and the
I agree that the Cherubini Hunter 36's do seem a bit scarce. I don't recall encountering any on over 400 outings on SF bay over the past four years. But I have seen 27's, 30's, 33's and 37's both on the bay and in marinas.
I enjoy my boat nonetheless!
Your post got me curious so today I emailed Hunter and asked them if they have the info still in their records.
I enjoy my boat nonetheless!
Your post got me curious so today I emailed Hunter and asked them if they have the info still in their records.
Hunter Doesn't Have The Production Record
Hunter responded quickly to the query for #'s of 1980-82 36's produced. Unfortunately they don't have the information of how many were produced.
If any 1982 36 owners are reading this, maybe a few posts with your hull # might give an indication of how many 100's might have been made?
Hunter responded quickly to the query for #'s of 1980-82 36's produced. Unfortunately they don't have the information of how many were produced.
If any 1982 36 owners are reading this, maybe a few posts with your hull # might give an indication of how many 100's might have been made?
Find the last serial number of boats produced, and you get close. I wonder why Cortland Steck is credited by some folks as the designer of the 1980 H36.
http://www.sailboatdata.com/view_designer.asp?designer_id=139
I thought he was the chief production engineer (not the designer) from 1980-1984 for Hunter.
http://www.sailboatdata.com/view_designer.asp?designer_id=139
I thought he was the chief production engineer (not the designer) from 1980-1984 for Hunter.
There are 48 H36s listed in the Owner's Directory. Interestingly one is a 1985 and two are 1983s. One of the 1982 owners included his hull id: HUN36109M82B . So there are at least 109 of them.
I added my boat to the owner's listing. I am fairly new here, learning the ropes...
BTW, my hull is number 005.
BTW, my hull is number 005.
You are right Rardi, the H36 is a Cherubini. Just because some guy took a design and stretched it three feet does not make him a naval architect. Even if that were true.
Glad to see you here "Whisper". Even the H36 owners are pretty neat guys. :dance: 'Bit pusher'?
Glad to see you here "Whisper". Even the H36 owners are pretty neat guys. :dance: 'Bit pusher'?
Ed, I am an old programmer who learned assembly language in the early seventies.
We may be heading to South Bass Island again this summer, but hopefully not during the around the island race again!
We may be heading to South Bass Island again this summer, but hopefully not during the around the island race again!
Likewise, glad to have you Whisper.
I don't know the details of what went on between Cortland, JC, and Hunter. Cortland is a naval architect (see http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cort-steck/28/583/73a and
http://www.westlawn.edu/who/success.asp) with solid education credentials, but I have seen companies do the unthinkable like having a chief designer do a rough design and then turn it over to a new guy to finish so as to get the new guy established with a "designed by" moniker. This happened to me in a software design project I had in 1991. But in my case the design was complete and in production when they pattented it with my company's president being listed as the Architect/designer.:cussing:The software is now owned by Nuance. Oh well.
Regardless, the H36 is a fine boat with a very respectable PHRF:
HUNTER 36 (LO)132 (Hi)156 (Avg)141
My kind of dude! An assembly language programmer smoothing out life's kinks with cloth, line and wheel set against the wind, loving the heel to adventure.
Kinda' figured that "Whisper". Started with the IBM 1401, then 360 from the inside out. Taught assembler, COBOL, and FORTRAN at IBM. Pushed a lot of other bits over forty years in IT. Ladylove was/is my getaway.
There is a bunch of us- first job in the industry was selling punch cards. Those were the first days of the 360, especially the 260-20 with the MFCM, an acronym which had more than one expansion. Still remember the unit record gear also. Wrote my first programs in college in Fortran IV
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Yes, yes! We had a Univac before we got our 360-20. Looked kewl iwth those yellow covers.
Sorting thousand of 80 column cards every days and then putting them in the collator and then dropping them in the MFCM only to have the damn thngs jam and you had to make a new card out of the munched one. Oh, those were the days. I am glad they are gone (but not forgotten).
The Sperry Univac almost ruined me as a programmer. I swore I would never program if I had to punch cards and wait two days for the results to run and find only a typo kept it out. The came the Primos and interactive programming in FORTRAN, code, compile, link, run, results in minutes... Ahhhh! Saving the code once proofed to paper tape or cards was much better than starting there...
Anyone for a Burrows 220? Ours was sold to the studios and found life on the Star Trek series. I was a tab operator / programmer as a single kid. Had to love those keypunch operators on the swing & graveyard shifts. If you were there, you know what I mean.
My first gig at IBM was a "customer engineer" trained to repair the 026 keypunch and 056 verifier. Did I know about the graveyard shift?! In case you don't remember those had vacuum tubes. Easier to repair than transistor type(029/059) if you worked at night. 
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