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Hi All,

I was surfing my local craigslist over a lunch time meeting and found this listing. I have no affiliation with the seller and was curious if it was an early hull design as Ray Hunt was around the newport area.

https://southcoast.craigslist.org/boa/d ... 55188.html


"new" 1961, 23 ft Ray Hunt designed bare hull. Layed up by Palmer Scott of Fall River. Hull spent most of its life covered in the original owners back yard. I purchased approx 20 years ago in the hope of turning into a great center console but life got in the way. Now time for a new owner willing to turn it into a boat. This is his famous hull that came in second in the 1960 Miami to Nassau powerboat race that was won by a 31 ft Bertram also designed by Ray. The hull is in pretty good shape for its age and wouldn't be hard to turn into a boat for the right guy. Also comes with the steel trailer it is sitting on.

There is a guy on The Hull Truth that has refurbished one of these

https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-fo ... hread.html

https://books.google.com/books/content? ... OtQ&w=1280

Turned it into this

Nice looking boat. A lot of work to take on, but probably worth it.

Cool boat, but if I were doing a 23, I’d start off with a Formula. They have some bow flair to keep you a little dry. That hull looks like a 31 hull with almost no flair. Any idea on beam?

KTM,
Yes, Ray Hunt designed a 23’ deep vee hull that was prevalent on the Newport waterfront. According to printed sources, Richard Bertram watched a Hunt 23’ from the 12 meter sailboat he was crewing during the Americas Cup trials around 1958-59. He connected with Ray Hunt afterwards and commissioned him to design a “30’ hull based on the 23’ hull he had observed slicing through the chop off Newport”. When the 30’ utility boat was delivered to Bertram, Sam Griffith convinced him to enter the 130 mile Miami-Nassau ocean race I’m April, 1960. The rest is history……