Hunter 50 CC

The Marlow-Hunter 50 Center Cockpit, also called the Marlow-Hunter 50CC is an American sailboat that was designed by the Hunter Design Team as a cruiser and first built in 2010. The design was originally marketed by Hunter Marine as the Hunter 50 CC (for Center Cockpit), but the company became Marlow-Hunter in 2012 and the boat was renamed the Marlow-Hunter 50 Center Cockpit.

The Marlow-Hunter 50 Center Cockpit is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a B&R rig fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a center cockpit, a walk-through reverse transom with a swimming platform and folding ladder, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or wing keel. The fin keel version it displaces 35,661 lb (16,176 kg) and carries 11,216 lb (5,087 kg) of ballast, while the wing keel version displaces 36,945 lb (16,758 kg) and carries 12,500 lb (5,670 kg) of ballast. The boat has a draft of 7.00 ft (2.13 m) with the standard keel and 5.5 ft (1.7 m) with the optional shoal draft wing keel.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar diesel engine of 75 hp (56 kW). The fuel tank holds 150 U.S. gallons (570 L; 120 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 200 U.S. gallons (760 L; 170 imp gal).

Standard equipment includes a mast furling mainsail, mainsheet traveler on a stainless steel arch. Options include a single jib in a bermuda rig or a staysail with overlapping jib in a cutter rig, and a tall mast about 5.1 ft (1.6 m) higher.

The design has a hull speed of 8.87 kn (16.43 km/h).

Source: Wikipedia. Image Credit: Marlow-Hunter