See Hunter Magazine Fall 2003 Issue of Knotline
See the article on the 466 in the Knotline Summer 2003 edition availble on Huntermarine.com. Has toured South America and made 2 Atlantic Crossings this year. Excellent feedback on perfomance and reliability of the boat. Extracts below: Delays in getting the boat just right meant that I ended up having to make the 4,000-mile trip across the Atlantic - via Bermuda, the Azores, Portugal, and Gibraltar - singlehanded. My previous singlehanded experience had been doing the Baja Bash following the 2000 Ha-Ha with my Hunter 340, also called Wanderlust. Here's a breakdown of that crossing: Six days from Jacksonville to Bermuda, where I slept for two days straight. Thirteen days from Bermuda to Horta, Azores. After three days of sleeping and eating, I moved a little bit east along the island chain to Puerto del Gato, then took five days to sail to Lagos, Portugal, and later to Gibraltar. During the crossing, I benefitted from Herb Hilgenberg's weather forecasts and routing. My ultimate goal was Ibiza, a Spanish island to the south of Barcelona. I made the trip there with the doctor and lawyer who had been my crew on the Ha-Ha. I then spent four months in the Med with four to six people living aboard, filming a 12- episode series for German television. In the process, we left seven western Mediterranean islands in our wake: Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca, Malta, Sicily, The February Miami Boat Show will herald the return of Wanderlust to the United States after her 'Atlantic circle' and Western Med cruise. In the 10 months and 12,000 ocean miles, virtually nothing went wrong with the boat or gear - other than normal wear and chafe. The only exceptions were: reinforcement being needed on the batten pockets for the main, an adjustment being necessary on the watermaker's salinity meter, and having to replace the autopilot's rotary motor. I'd like to salute Hunter for the 466, and all the gear manufacturers for their equipment.
