New build Hunter boats
- Thread starter Ed Caldwell
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A new company has taken over the plant building pontoon boats but will build the small fiberglass daysailors that the old Hunter marine use to build and then Marlow hunter continued to build
I wonder if there's a market for such watercraft? I think there might be. Just look at the Sunfish.
With all the talk about green ways to use the waterways I can't think of one better. I was in Jupitor today and watching some kayakers and a paddle boarder trying to go up river and, believe me, no one was having fun. And later I was in Port Salierno watching another kayaker crossing Jupitor Sound and he didn't appear to be having fun either. Just when he got going he hit a couple of power boat wakes and he'd stop. His body was in such an unnatural position I can't imagine he was comfortable. A sailboat is subject to the wakes too but if there's breeze and you know how to handle a wake it is just another challenge.
The thing about a small sailboat for me is that I am probably physically unable to right a capsized one. And even if I could I have no interest in doing that. So can they deliver a stable, easy to rig, trailerable sailboat?
WhileI'm at it, we now have the foiling boards, which I know have their limits, why can't those technologies be incorporated into the launchable sailboats?
With all the talk about green ways to use the waterways I can't think of one better. I was in Jupitor today and watching some kayakers and a paddle boarder trying to go up river and, believe me, no one was having fun. And later I was in Port Salierno watching another kayaker crossing Jupitor Sound and he didn't appear to be having fun either. Just when he got going he hit a couple of power boat wakes and he'd stop. His body was in such an unnatural position I can't imagine he was comfortable. A sailboat is subject to the wakes too but if there's breeze and you know how to handle a wake it is just another challenge.
The thing about a small sailboat for me is that I am probably physically unable to right a capsized one. And even if I could I have no interest in doing that. So can they deliver a stable, easy to rig, trailerable sailboat?
WhileI'm at it, we now have the foiling boards, which I know have their limits, why can't those technologies be incorporated into the launchable sailboats?