| Marlow-Hunter 50 | |
| Designer: | Hunter Design Team |
| Location: | United States |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Builder: | Hunter Marine |
| Draft: | 7feet |
| Displacement: | 294060NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | Monohull |
| Construction: | Fiberglass |
| Loa: | 49.92feet |
| Lwl: | 43.83feet |
| Beam: | 14.75feet |
| Engine: | Yanmar 750NaN0 diesel engine |
| Keel Type: | fin keel |
| Ballast: | 90930NaN0 |
| Rudder Type: | internally-mounted spade-type rudder |
| Rig Type: | Cutter rig |
| I: | 54.58feet |
| J: | 16.5feet |
| P: | 51.58feet |
| E: | 21.83feet |
| Sailplan: | B&R rigged Masthead sloop |
| Sailarea Main: | 563square feet |
| Sailarea Headsail: | 450.29square feet |
| Sailarea Total: | 1277square feet |
The Marlow-Hunter 50 is an American sailboat that was designed by the Hunter Design Team as a cruiser and first built in 2010.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The design was originally marketed by Hunter Marine as the Hunter 50 AC (for Aft Cockpit), but the company became Marlow-Hunter in 2012 and the boat was renamed the Marlow-Hunter 50.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The design was built by Hunter Marine in the United States starting in 2010 and remained in production in 2019.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The Marlow-Hunter 50 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a B&R rig masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, an aft cockpit, a walk-through reverse transom with a swimming platform and folding ladder, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by dual wheels and a fixed fin keel or wing keel. The fin keel version it displaces 294060NaN0 and carries 90930NaN0 of ballast, while the wing keel version displaces 328130NaN0 and carries 125000NaN0 of ballast.[1] [4]
The boat has a draft of 7feet with the standard keel and 5.5feet with the optional shoal draft wing keel.[1] [4]
The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar diesel engine of 750NaN0. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .[1] [4]
Standard equipment includes a mast furling mainsail, mainsheet traveler on a stainless steel arch. Options include a single self-tacking jib or a self-tacking staysail with overlapping jib in a cutter rig. There are two window arrangements, an earlier one with five individual side ports and a later one with five ports in a sweeping arch.[1] [3] [4]
The design has a hull speed of 8.87kn.[4]
In a 2011 review, Cruising World writer Herb McCormick noted the large range of options that allow for a high degree of customization of the boat to customer's desires. "For instance, there are shoal-draft and deep-draft keel and ballast choices (5 feet 6 inches and 12,544 pounds or 7 feet and 11,216 pounds, respectively); standard or tall rigs (63 feet 4 inches and 68 feet 6 inches, both measured from the waterline); regular or more robust Yanmar diesels (75 horsepower or 110 horsepower), and even two different ways of approaching the headsails and foretriangle configuration (a single self-tacking jib or a self-tacking staysail with an overlapping jib). Regarding the latter, of course, either headsail arrangement is paired with Hunter’s “backstayless” B&R rig, a mainsheet traveler arch, and a battened, full-roach mainsail. For the Hunter Design Team, some things are too iconic to mess with."[5]
upon the design's introduction, a brief Sail magazine staff report noted, "Below decks excellent use has been made of the hull's considerable volume, with all the deft touches Hunter owners have come to expect."[6]
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