Welcome Glenn!

[Ed Schenck]

If you are only here a week we had better get started! Welcome aboard.

It seems like yesterday that I was at the IX-Center in Cleveland helping Harbor North get the new Hunters ready for the show. Among them were the first of the Henderson hulls. So we all stood there comparing them, trying to understand the differences. Was the H33 the first?

That would be my first question, how were they different? And if I may ask a second, who will be designing them now?

 

[ghen]

Ed,

That was a while back. The first Hunter I did was the 356. My goal with that design was to insure I didn't step over any design parameters while optimizing stability and reducing drag. I also wanted to make the boat easy to sail by virtue of responsiveness and good boat motion. That boat was my "database" and my design criteria for all of them. After that design I tweeked each succeding design with what I learned from the previous designs. As much as the tweeking, I adapted different coefficient values to each parameter because each boat was a different size. The larger the boat the more inherited stability it has. That gives the designer more freedom to tool the other drag or motion producing parameters.

 

[ghen]

I forgot to answer the second part of your question. I will be designing them but I will be doing it as a seperate design office instead of in-house.

 

[Jim Seamans]

Must say Glenn, My wife and I are starting our 7th year in the H356 and the only way you are going to get us out of it, would be if Hunter gave us a H50... We have enjoyed this boat year after year. Well Done to you...

 

[ghen]

Thanks fot that! That is what it is all about. Knowing the sailors are enjoying the boat and feel confident in her abilities.