MYSTERY 35
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Peter Poland commissioned this design when he was MD of Hunter Yachts. He was after a sensible, attractive, reasonably fast, go-anywhere cruising yacht, combining elements of a 6-M, Contessa 32, Folkboat and Robert Clark’s Mystery. That’s a pretty broad set of ingredients and a similarly broad (and optimistic) brief. The designer he chose though, Stephen Jones, was a sensible choice for this sort of thing, and came up with this attractive yacht: Jones seems to have a knack for this “tradition in a sharp suit” sort of thing. She’s built in hand-laid GRP, with a near-50 per cent ballast ratio in the moderate bulb keel, giving her tremendous stability. Her interior is traditional in lay-out, and her sailing performance was, we found in 2006, “extremely…