[Leica] Boating Pad #10 - "Huntress"

[luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)]

Hi Richard,

I really like these classic boats, morethan the modernes ones, there  
really beautiful, they seems have the correct size for the man. The  
pictures are beatiful, I like very much the third one.

Cheers
Lluis


El 27/07/2009, a las 21:14, Richard Taylor escribi?:

> C. Raymond Hunt was one of the most prolific boat designers of the  
> last century.  He designed a wide range of powerboats and sailboats  
> that were often highly innovative and almost always widely admired.   
> Many of his boats are considered classics.  The Concordia Yawl and  
> the Boston Whaler are just two that come to mind off the top of my  
> head.  The classic deep-V powerboat hull is also his.
>
> The owner describes Huntress as a Ray Hunt "one-off."  It's very  
> much in the tradition of the plywood slab-sided 110's and 210's that  
> Hunt also designed in the post-WWII era.  Those were intended to be  
> fast, low-cost, racing sailboats.  they were to be cheap and great  
> fun to sail.  Like those boats, Huntress is long and very narrow,  
> designed for maximum speed and sailing pleasure.  She appears to be  
> strip-planked, a build method that would have been very new at the  
> time Huntress was designed.
>
> We were anchored off the Weepeckets in Buzzards Bay having lunch a  
> couple of weeks ago when Huntress sailed in and anchored next to us.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4337.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/ldz944
>
> Huntress Bow-On
>
> You can see just how narrow she is by comparing her beam to the  
> height of the guy standing on the bow.  Her maximum beam looks to be  
> about four feet.  That's astonishingly narrow for a boat about 30- 
> feet long and very much the opposite of most boats today that are  
> built beamy to maximize the available space below.  Huntress was  
> designed for speed.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4340.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/m4ho7r
>
> The Boating Party
>
> The cockpit was is very long and narrow making for a tight squeeze  
> if more than a few people go along for the sail.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/300_4352.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/mud6ff
>
> I've not been able to find out anything more about Huntress on the  
> web, but more about Ray Hunt's boats is available here:
>
> http://www.huntdesigns.com/about_ray_hunt.htm
>
> D300 etc.  C&C always welcome.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
>
>
>
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