Hull materials on hunter sailboats. Safe?

Question

Hunter makes a nice looking sailboat. I have read some people think that the hulls are weak. Any engineers out there no if that is true?

Answer 1

I'm an engineer and have had 2 new hunters, a 23.5 and a 310.  In both cases, the construction and materials seemed to me to be very robust and suprisingly high quality for these modestly priced boats.  There were a few instances of reports on the net of poor quality in some of the trailerable boats, built by a subcontractor a few years ago,  but evidently Hunter made good on these problems.   The boats I've seen and have owned (over 3,000 miles on the 310),  are solid and well built.

Answer 2

I've sailed a lot of Huner 33's and never had a moment's worry... but there ARE some plastic fantastics out there... Hunter just doesn't happen to be one of them.