1989 Hunter Horizon 26 - £7,750

Status : SOLD

Lying : Norfolk Broads - Viewing strictly by appointment through Topsail

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General Specification

Designer : David Thomas
Builder : Hunter Boats, Southend
LOA : 8.03m (26ft 4in)
LWL : 6.3m (20ft 8in)
Beam : 2.74m (9ft 0in)
Draft : 1m (3ft 3in)
Keel : Bilge/Twin

Construction

• GRP construction
• Professionally completed from kit by local Norfolk boatyard
• Original gelcoat finish throughout
• Hydrodynamic bilge keels (providing improved performance over traditional parallel bilge keels)
• Transom hung rudder
• Moulded non-slip decks
• Anchor locker
• Will pass under all Broadland bridges
• Windows replaced August/September 2019
• Front hatch resealed August 2019
• Last ashore and antifouled approximately 2016 (no known signs of osmosis at that time)
• No recent survey
• ONLY ONE OWNER FROM NEW!

Rigging & Sails

• Fractional Bermudan sloop rig
• Alloy mast/spars
• Mast deck stepped in stainless steel tabernacle and lowered via block and tackle
• Standing rigging replaced September 2006
• 2 x Lewmar sheet winches
• Lewmar halyard winch
• Plastimo headsail roller reefing gear (1989)
• Mainsail (1989 by Hyde Sails, two reefing lines, good serviceable condition)
• Genoa (1989 by Hyde Sails, good serviceable condition)
• Sail cover (Jeckells)

Mechanical & Electrical

• 8hp Johnson two-stroke outboard motor (1989, last serviced March 2018, not used since summer 2018)
• Outboard mounted in cockpit well locker with ability to lift and tilt to reduce drag when sailing
• Remote steel fuel tank
• Tiller steering
• 12V battery

Accommodation

• 6 berths in 2 cabins
• Main saloon provides two 1.91m (6ft 3in) settee berths plus a forward (double) V-berth
• Double berth in aft cabin
• Upholstery in very good condition
• Galley with gimballed gas stove (two burners & grill), sink (manual cold supply), insulated cold locker, worktops and stowage
• Separate heads compartment with PAR manual sea toilet (no holding tank), wash basin (manual cold supply) and mirror
• Fixed chart table
• Folding doors to heads and aft cabin
• Flexible freshwater tank
• 12V cabin lights
• Maximum headroom approximately 1.82m (6ft)

Equipment

• Boat Safety Scheme certificate to 20th October 2023
• Fire extinguishers
• Fire blanket
• Manual bilge pump
• Stainless steel pulpit and pushpit
• Stanchions with guardwires
• Transom mounted stainless steel boarding ladder
• Horseshoe lifebuoy
• Stowe Dataline speed and depth
• Plastimo bulkhead compass
• Masthead tricolour navigation light
• Bicolour bow navigation light
• Mud weight (housed in anchor locker)
• Pair of rhond anchors
• Single bowroller
• Various fenders
• Various warps

Remarks

The Hunter Horizon 26 offers both good family cruising accommodation and also good performance, with Hunters renowned for producing some of the best performing bilge keelers available. Designed as a larger cruising version of the Hunter Delta 25 and earlier performance oriented Hunter Sonata 24, the Hunter Horizon 26 proved very successful with some 160 built between 1984 and 1989, before subsequently leading to the design of the Horizon 27, 272 and 273.

This late example was one of the last Hunter Horizon 26s to be built and was purchased new by the vendor in 1989! After many happy years, she has regretfully been little used in recent years and hence she is now offered for sale. She has to date been sailed exclusively on the southern Broads, bar one trip to Southwold in 1992. A quick sale is desired.