hunt 23
11-15-2017 | 04:47 PM
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Hi, anyone know anything about the Hunt yachts (1959) 23 ft. deep v fiberglass boats? This one looks like a mini Bertram 31 from the rub rail down. May have an opportunity to purchase one, have no photos at the moment< Thx, Gerry
11-17-2017 | 02:40 AM
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Some good reading in this link: https://books.google.com/books?id=MdlLv77FCBYC&lpg=PP1094&ots=AFjNeXWGw6&dq =%22George%20O'Day%22%20HUNTER%2023&pg=PP1094#v=on epage&q=%22George%20O'Day%22%20HUNTER%2023&f=false
For more comprehensive reading then Dan Spurr's book 'Heart of Glass: Fiberglass Boats and the Men Who Built Them. Here's first an article by Spurr in Professional Boatbuilder Magazine.
https://www.proboat.com/2012/01/wood-to-glass/
Link to his excellent book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=eG...page&q&f=false
Excerpt from the book:
"In 1957 and 1958, Dyer built 4 fiberglass versions of a 23' powerboat designed by C. Raymond Hunt, one of the first constant deadrise, or deep-v, designs that revolutionized small-boat design. (The Wharton shipyard in Jamestown Rhode Island may have built the first Ray Hunt constant deadrise hull, a 21 footer; Pete Smyth said it was Palmer Scott).
One of the four was sold to Jacob Isbrandtsen as a tender to EASTERNER ( also a Hunt design ), an America's Cup contender that summer. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, was taken by it and had Hunt design for him a larger ( 31' ) version. Jack Hargrace did the construction drawings for the wooden boat, which was named MOPPIE. She finished 1st in the 1960 Miami-Nassau race, just ahead of Jum Wynne in a 24' deep-v designed by Hunt and built in fiberglass ( in 1959 ) by Palmer Scott.
Other 23- footers were built for Eric Olson and Essex Fiber Boat Company and International Plastics Corp, whose assets were sold to George O'Day associates in early spring 1958. According to Russ Lundstrom, George O'Day's HUNTER, first of the original four built by the Anchorage, has the distinction of being the first fiberglass deep-v.
Lundstrom said that Bertram, a close friend of Bill Dyer, attempted to patent the v-bottom and that during the ensuing court case Dyer happily cooperated with attorneys from both sides, who visited the yard to inspect HUNTER. Dyer's offer to help Bertram backfired, however, when documentation verifying the date of Hunter's construction before MOPPIE turned the case against BERTRAM."
For more comprehensive reading then Dan Spurr's book 'Heart of Glass: Fiberglass Boats and the Men Who Built Them. Here's first an article by Spurr in Professional Boatbuilder Magazine.
https://www.proboat.com/2012/01/wood-to-glass/
Link to his excellent book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=eG...page&q&f=false
Excerpt from the book:
"In 1957 and 1958, Dyer built 4 fiberglass versions of a 23' powerboat designed by C. Raymond Hunt, one of the first constant deadrise, or deep-v, designs that revolutionized small-boat design. (The Wharton shipyard in Jamestown Rhode Island may have built the first Ray Hunt constant deadrise hull, a 21 footer; Pete Smyth said it was Palmer Scott).
One of the four was sold to Jacob Isbrandtsen as a tender to EASTERNER ( also a Hunt design ), an America's Cup contender that summer. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, was taken by it and had Hunt design for him a larger ( 31' ) version. Jack Hargrace did the construction drawings for the wooden boat, which was named MOPPIE. She finished 1st in the 1960 Miami-Nassau race, just ahead of Jum Wynne in a 24' deep-v designed by Hunt and built in fiberglass ( in 1959 ) by Palmer Scott.
Other 23- footers were built for Eric Olson and Essex Fiber Boat Company and International Plastics Corp, whose assets were sold to George O'Day associates in early spring 1958. According to Russ Lundstrom, George O'Day's HUNTER, first of the original four built by the Anchorage, has the distinction of being the first fiberglass deep-v.
Lundstrom said that Bertram, a close friend of Bill Dyer, attempted to patent the v-bottom and that during the ensuing court case Dyer happily cooperated with attorneys from both sides, who visited the yard to inspect HUNTER. Dyer's offer to help Bertram backfired, however, when documentation verifying the date of Hunter's construction before MOPPIE turned the case against BERTRAM."
