I recently purchased a 1975 H27. I am searching for any history or previous owners. The boat is named Gentle Breeze, from Bayville NJ. Hull # HUN50 256M7 527. Any previous owners out threre?
Family Tree search (looking for previous owners of my H27)
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If the vessel is documented with the Coast Guard, you can search their database and get info on previous owners.
Here is the link:
http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/CoastGuard/index.html
Here is the link:
http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/CoastGuard/index.html
Hunter boats' provenance
ALL Hunters built before about 1978-79 were built in the Marlboro, NJ plant. Mine is a '74-75 and it was almost definitely sold by Dave Thompson's Sails Aweigh on Mantoloking Road in Brick, NJ. If your boat has been most of its life in waters anywhere from Connecticut to Philadelphia, it's likely yours was too.
The other HUGE dealer in that period was in Havre de Grace, MD. Both of these sailing areas are notorious for terribly shallow water and it was these two dealers' influence that begat the shallow-draft '74-75 Hunter 27, the vast majority of which were built with the 3'3" keel.
As an aside, which I have mentioned once before on here-- Hunter's Marlboro plant set records in these days for a relatively new company doing REAL mass production of quality (as designed by my dad!) fiberglass sailboats. They had FIVE assembly lines-- 33, 30, 27, and two for the 25, each five boats deep with one in the mold as well. Every day at 10.00 a siren sounded, and the finished boat moved out the door, the other four moved up one stage, and the one in the 'glass shop came inside-- in all five lines. Yes-- that's a schedule of one boat per line per day, 1250 boats a year. Imagine this in the fuel-crisis 1970s! It was said in, I think, 'Yachting', that the Luhrs brothers were the 'last' guys to make multiple millions of dollars in the boat business. That's not true now, but it sure seemed like it would be then.
In my estimation Hunter is still the premiere affordable-sailboat manufacturer in the US with more models, more production, and, by now, more history than anyone like Beneteau, Catalina, et.al.
JC2
ALL Hunters built before about 1978-79 were built in the Marlboro, NJ plant. Mine is a '74-75 and it was almost definitely sold by Dave Thompson's Sails Aweigh on Mantoloking Road in Brick, NJ. If your boat has been most of its life in waters anywhere from Connecticut to Philadelphia, it's likely yours was too.
The other HUGE dealer in that period was in Havre de Grace, MD. Both of these sailing areas are notorious for terribly shallow water and it was these two dealers' influence that begat the shallow-draft '74-75 Hunter 27, the vast majority of which were built with the 3'3" keel.
As an aside, which I have mentioned once before on here-- Hunter's Marlboro plant set records in these days for a relatively new company doing REAL mass production of quality (as designed by my dad!) fiberglass sailboats. They had FIVE assembly lines-- 33, 30, 27, and two for the 25, each five boats deep with one in the mold as well. Every day at 10.00 a siren sounded, and the finished boat moved out the door, the other four moved up one stage, and the one in the 'glass shop came inside-- in all five lines. Yes-- that's a schedule of one boat per line per day, 1250 boats a year. Imagine this in the fuel-crisis 1970s! It was said in, I think, 'Yachting', that the Luhrs brothers were the 'last' guys to make multiple millions of dollars in the boat business. That's not true now, but it sure seemed like it would be then.
In my estimation Hunter is still the premiere affordable-sailboat manufacturer in the US with more models, more production, and, by now, more history than anyone like Beneteau, Catalina, et.al.
JC2
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