Hustler 35

Judders

Judders

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We've missed out on all the Centurion's going, the Contessa's are too small and the UFOs too scruffy. The Sadler isn't quite right so now SWMBO has fallen for a Hustler... or rather she's seen one and quite likes it. I previously tried to talk her into looking at a 30 but that was too small below, so off I go on Friday. What do I need to look out for and why are they a little cheaper than the competition?
 
Not sure what the budget is, but for a little more you could get a Rustler 36 which is very similar (same designer), a bit bigger, newer and very desirable.

But then, as an ex-owner I am biased!:)

Try here.
 
Judders said:
We've missed out on all the Centurion's going, the Contessa's are too small and the UFOs too scruffy. The Sadler isn't quite right so now SWMBO has fallen for a Hustler... or rather she's seen one and quite likes it. I previously tried to talk her into looking at a 30 but that was too small below, so off I go on Friday. What do I need to look out for and why are they a little cheaper than the competition?
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Most of the Hustler 35s were built with a layout to suit a race crew, lots of sea berths and sail bins up front. A few were built as cruisers with a U-shaped table/settee arrangement. They are not 35 footers down below and are smaller than many 30 footers these days, that is the penalty of the long overhangs. We looked at them way back when moving up from an Elizabethan 30 and ended up with a Westerly 33 which was actually a very good choice as we kept her for fourteen years.
 
SolentBoy said:
Not sure what the budget is, but for a little more you could get a Rustler 36 which is very similar (same designer), a bit bigger, newer and very desirable.

But then, as an ex-owner I am biased!:)

Try here.
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Sorry: Rustler 36 very different to a Hustler 35 indeed. Early Hustler 35s were fin and skeggers like a bigger beamier Contessa 32, later ones were modern fin and spade rudder racing machines.
 
sailorman said:
Hustler 35 is Holman & Pye
Kim Holman owned Jemima berthed in Suffolk Yacht Hbr she had a fixed screen Ala Rassey
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Holman & Pye did the 25.5, 30 and 35. Steven Jones designs all had the SJ prefix (SJ27, SJ30, SJ32, SJ35, SJ36 et al).

2 very different families, although both were successful racers in their day. The H & P are (IMHO) much prettier.
 
rick4d said:
Are there two types of Hustler 35? are we talking about the Stephen Jones design???
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Yes - two different boats: most of the later Stephen Jones ones were sold as Hustler SJ35s or just SJ35s, but some seem to just have been called Hustler 35s.
 
My recollection of the Stephen Jones designs - quite possibly wrong, failing memory circuits – is that the Hustler 36 (three-quarter tonner?) was the much rarer big sister of the very successful Hustler 32 half tonner. The racing boats were called Hustlers. When cruising versions were introduced (different deck moulding, rig and accommodation) they were SJs. And the Hustler 36 was cruiserified as the SJ35.

I'm unaware of any other SJs coming from Hustler parentage, but quite prepared to be proved wrong.
 
TK, Hustler 36 is a different beast from the SJ35. Only 10 x 36s built and weren't too successful. SJ 35 was later c. 25 built between 1983 and 1985 as IOR 3/4 tonners and largely sold through Oyster although often described as Hustler SJ35s due to the relative similarity to the SJ32.

Nudge
 
www.hustler35.org for more info on holman and pye ones.

pm me for more info if you like, which one were you looking at?

clearly i am completely biased, as i own one, but look good, sail well, big roomy cockpit/lockers, can be cheap to buy. not as big down below as more modern 35' boats, but big enough for us!

look out for chain plate knees (made box section from late '71), corrosion base mast, delaminating interior woodwork especially lower down. as well as usual stuff for a 35-40 year old boat.

(ps if any other hustler 35 owners would like to get in touch, we have just got an owners association going eddiecrawford@hotmail.com )
 
Grand boat,did my Yacht courses with Geof Gordon of Brixham in the late 60s early 70s,can't remember exactly but I thought the boat was terrific.I ended with a Hustler 25.5 as I thought the 35 a bit big for two.
 
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