Skip to content
Hull Gauge
Recomputed 5 Nov 2026, 03:30 UTC

One year of the Hunter 28.5 run, 1985–1990

1985 Hunter
28.5 value

A 1985 Hunter 28.5 is worth about £9,500€11,500$11,500 in today's asking prices, most likely between £8,000€9,000$9,500 and £13,000€15,000$16,000. Based on 10 comparable boats built between 1985 and 1988, 6 of them in 1985.

Gauge Estimate · 1985
Indicative · 10 comparable boats
£9,500€11,500$11,500

Likely range £8,000€9,000$9,500 – £13,000€15,000$16,000

6 boats built 1985 · 10 built 1985–1988 · listed since Sep 2020, in today's prices · any hours · every market alike · asking, not sold

in pounds

VAT is not measured for this model yet (0 of 10 boats state it paid, 0 not paid), so it does not move the estimate.

Enter the asking price from a listing to see where it sits against the 1985 boats and the likely range.

likely rangeestimateyour price, off the scale£, today's prices
01

The 1985 boats

Every Hunter 28.5 built in 1985 that we have observed since Sep 2020, cheapest first in today's prices. Derived facts only: no seller, no listing, month not day.

asked $7,500 ≈ £5,500 listed 7 monthslisted in the US market · seen May 2021, below the likely range
asked $11,000 ≈ £9,000lying in the US · seen Dec 2022, below the likely range
asked $11,500 ≈ £9,500lying in the US · seen Nov 2022, inside the likely range
asked $12,900 ≈ £11,000 listed 3 monthslying in the US · seen Sep 2022, inside the likely range
asked CAD 19,900 ≈ £11,000lying in Canada · seen Sep 2024, inside the likely range
asked $19,000 ≈ £15,500lying in the US · seen Nov 2022, above the likely range

3 of 6 sit inside the likely range (hollow diamonds). Each boat is placed at its ask in today's prices and labelled with the price as asked and the month we saw it; a cut shows its size, and how long we have seen the boat listed so far. How we measure.

02

Either side of 1985

The rest of the run on the same scale, in today's asking prices. The bar is each year's middle half (from ten boats), the tick its median (from five). Years with a page of their own are linked.

1985£9,0006 boats
1986–1990—4 boats · fewer than five a year

We don't carry this boat forward yet: the Hunter 28.5 has no published depreciation curve. A curve needs 20 boats across 6 build years; we have 10 boats across 3 build years.

04

Specification

What the listings say about the Hunter 28.5: each figure is the median, or the most common value, of the boats that state it, unless a source is cited.

Length overall
8.66 mfrom listings: median of 9
Beam
3.20 mfrom listings: median of 7
Draft
1.58 mfrom listings: median of 5
Engines
Singlefrom listings: 8 of 8
Engine power
13 hpfrom listings: median of 6
Fuel
Dieselfrom listings: 8 of 8
Build years seen
1985–1987from listings: 10 boats
05

Questions about the 1985 Hunter 28.5

How much is a 1985 Hunter 28.5 worth?

A 1985 Hunter 28.5 is worth about £9,500 in today's asking prices, most likely between £8,000 and £13,000. Based on 10 comparable boats built between 1985 and 1988, 6 of them in 1985.

What do 1985 Hunter 28.5s ask?

The 6 boats built in 1985 that we observed asked a median of £9,000 in today's prices. Each boat is counted once, at its latest asking price; these are asking prices, not sale prices.

Are these sold prices?

No. Every figure here is built from asking prices seen on public listings. Boats usually sell for less than they ask; we do not yet measure by how much, so we never print a sold price as ours.