They aren't as beamy
If you look at Hunter's new models, their ratio of length to beam is right around 3, with most being just under. These are beamy boats. Beam gives more interior space. But that much beam is not good for sailing. It makes pointing difficult, especially into a chop. It hurts steering downwind. It gives a bumpier ride. If carried aft, as it is on Hunters, it causes weather helm when heeled. The Cherubini Hunters are all less beamy. L/B on the Hunter 37 is 3.3. New boats from other builders, who focus more on sailing qualities, have less beam than modern Hunters. It's as if some edict came down from Hunter management a few years past demanding that every hull have a beam one-third its length, carried aft, to give as much interior as possible, sailing issues be damned. The designers managed to make the 450/460 hull a mite less beamy. It's L/B is 3.16. I can imagine the internal fight this caused. "Do we have to make this one a fat pig too?" "Dammit, give me 1/3 length, so I can seat ten around the U settee." "But sir, if we give it beam over 14', it won't fit into a 16' slip." "Well, OK, then, but not an inch less than 14 feet!" Tellingly, the significant exception is the HC50.
If you look at Hunter's new models, their ratio of length to beam is right around 3, with most being just under. These are beamy boats. Beam gives more interior space. But that much beam is not good for sailing. It makes pointing difficult, especially into a chop. It hurts steering downwind. It gives a bumpier ride. If carried aft, as it is on Hunters, it causes weather helm when heeled. The Cherubini Hunters are all less beamy. L/B on the Hunter 37 is 3.3. New boats from other builders, who focus more on sailing qualities, have less beam than modern Hunters. It's as if some edict came down from Hunter management a few years past demanding that every hull have a beam one-third its length, carried aft, to give as much interior as possible, sailing issues be damned. The designers managed to make the 450/460 hull a mite less beamy. It's L/B is 3.16. I can imagine the internal fight this caused. "Do we have to make this one a fat pig too?" "Dammit, give me 1/3 length, so I can seat ten around the U settee." "But sir, if we give it beam over 14', it won't fit into a 16' slip." "Well, OK, then, but not an inch less than 14 feet!" Tellingly, the significant exception is the HC50.