title: Hunter 280
text: # Hunter 280
  
  The Hunter 280 is an American sailboat that was designed by the Hunter Design Team in conjunction with Rob Mazza, as a cruising boat and first built in 1995.
  
  The design replaced the Hunter 28 in the company line, which had been produced from 1989 to 1994.
  
  ## Production
  
  The design was built by Hunter Marine in the United States between 1995 and 1999, but it is now out of production.
  
  ## Design
  
  The Hunter 280 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop B&R rig with a full-batten mainsail and 110% genoa, a raked stem, a walk-through reverse transom with a swimming platform, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel or an optional tiller and a fixed fin keel or option shoal-draft wing keel. It displaces 6,500 lb (2,948 kg) and carries 2,100 lb (953 kg) of ballast.
  
  The boat has a draft of 5.00 ft (1.52 m) with the standard keel and 3.50 ft (1.07 m) with the optional shoal draft wing keel.
  
  The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar diesel engine of 18 hp (13 kW), with a 9 hp (7 kW) optional. The fuel tank holds 20 U.S. gallons (76 L; 17 imp gal) and the fresh water tank has a capacity of 40 U.S. gallons (150 L; 33 imp gal).
  
  Standard factory equipment supplied included self-tailing winches, double lifelines, a teak and holly cabin sole, a dinette table that converts to a berth, four opening ports, an enclosed head with a 20 U.S. gallons (76 L; 17 imp gal) holding tank, shower, icebox, kitchen dishes, anchor, fog horn and life jackets. The boat has sleeping accommodation for six people. Optional equipment included a spinnaker and an LPG stove.
  
  The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 186 with a high of 192 and low of 180. It has a hull speed of 6.51 kn (12.06 km/h).
  
  