What happen with Hunter drawings?

[Irek]

As we all know Hunter was purchased by Marlow and they in turn sold out to M&M manufacturing. Facilities are still in the same place but owners change and character of production is also different. Now pontoon boats.
I wonder if someone knows what happened to documentation, drawings which were used by Hunter and later by Marlow. We can see here and there some scans of manual or side view of the boat, but where are drawings showing shape of the hull or deck, cross sections on frames?
I would love to put my hands on them. It would take a lot of guesswork when trying to install something or do refit./ik

 

[rgranger]

You want to reach out to @Crazy Dave Condon

 

[dlochner]

You may find some of what you are looking for in the owner resources section of SBO.

Sailboat resources, by brand

Sailboat resources, by brand

sbo.sailboatowners.com

 

[kappykaplan]

@Irek, some Hunter 40.5 downloads are here:

HunterOwners.com downloads

HunterOwners.com downloads

hunter.sailboatowners.com

 

[Irek]

Thx guys for suggestions. I have checked what is on the Hunter Owners downloads but this are mostly pdf scans from Manual or some other source. I am looking for drawings such as transversal or longitudinal cross-cuts of the hull to see the shape of deck or spaces in the bilges. When installing bow thruster I had quite a problem to find a place where it could go in. Even when installing jet thruster which has much smaller dia of the transversal pipes. At the end I had to take some chances and luckily it all worked. Proper drawings (the best would be design drgs from Hunter) would help a lot. I can't believe someone would throw them away or burnt. They have a commercial value!
And thx "rgranger", will check crazy Dave./ik

 

[Crazy Dave Condon]

@Irek
Contact either Al Fooks or Mike Thomas at the SBO store. Not sure what they have you are looking for but use to be Hunter employees.
As for the old regular Hunter Marine and Marlowe-Hunter telephone number, it is now used by the new pontoon manufacturer who does not have any information on the sailboats

 

[Irek]

Thx Dave. Worth to try./ik

 

[DRhoads]

let us all know what you find. Would be nice to have or at least able to view for........ "It would take a lot of guesswork when trying to install something or do refit. "

 

[Irek]

Will do. It will make a good sense to have at least some of them digitalized. From what I see It was Legend 41 in the beginning of 2000s that had design by CAD. That makes me wonder if it is possible that the hull and deck form was same as on the earlier models (say 40.5). Designers are very reluctant to change hull form once it was developed and perfected. But this can be answered only by someone who was in Hunter-Marlowe./ik