The Hunter 40 is an American sailboat that was designed by Cortland Steck and first built in 1984.
[1][5] The design was built by Hunter Marine in the United States between 1984 and 1990, but it is now out of production.
[1][2] The Hunter 40 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.
It has a B&R rig masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom with a folding boarding ladder, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel.
[1][6] Factory standard equipment included a 110% roller furling genoa, four two-speed self tailing winches, AM/FM radio and cassette player with four speakers, teak and holly cabin sole, two fully enclosed heads with showers, private forward and aft cabins, a dinette table, refrigerator, dual stainless steel sinks and a three-burner gimbaled compressed natural gas stove and oven.