Help with Identity of this Boat

[CrosbyStriper]

Hi,
This was a boat that was from my area, (Cape Cod) a long time ago. (I never saw it in person). I have come across these two pictures, and was wondering if anybody knew what it might be. I belive it is about 26 to 28ft, and most likely a 1940's built design. But that's all i can come up with, any help would be greatly appreciated! These are the only photo's I have, Sorry!

[Ian McColgin]

No records at BRYC? Sure looks like a committee boat.

[CrosbyStriper]

It sort of was a committee boat, basically a "fill-in" boat. the BRYC Log books state it is a "Huntform Sport Cruiser" but google has nothing helpful on this search. Some records it says 26ft, some 28ft. Owned by a fellow who has been dead since the 70's, dont know what happened to the boat.

[CrosbyStriper]

Any other thoughts/Ideas? I'd really like to figure this one out!

[MiddleAgesMan]

"Huntform" might be a clue. Perhaps it was a Raymond Hunt design or a Hunt knock-off.

[Hwyl]

It sort of was a committee boat, basically a "fill-in" boat. the BRYC Log books state it is a "Huntform Sport Cruiser" but google has nothing helpful on this search. Some records it says 26ft, some 28ft. Owned by a fellow who has been dead since the 70's, dont know what happened to the boat.

Did you consider that it might be an early Hunt design http://www.crhunt.com/rayhunt.htm

[CrosbyStriper]

I tried some digging on Ray Hu8nts early stuff, but haven't really found anthing useful, i thought maybe it was mis-labeled??? I wonder if the hunt firm has any records. a google search on "Huntform Sport Cruiser" just brings up boston whaler type stuff. Maybe if i send them the pictures, they can look in the archives?

[CrosbyStriper]

During World War II, the Hunts moved back to Cohasset, and Ray began to take an interest in powerboats. He became a lobster fisherman, first in an old rumboat, and then in a “Huntform” A Concordia yawl with spinnaker set, roaring downwind. workboat of his design that enabled him to set his gear farther off-shore and get back quicker than a conventional lobsterboat.

The Huntforms were predecessors of the deep-vee in that they had round bottom sections—a convex curve along the bottom that flared up and out in concave curves like the lips of a bell at the chine lines. A 39' Huntform workboat that Yachting showed in its design pages in 1945 was said to do 16-17 knots with a Chrysler Crown driving through 1.95:1 reduction, and a 54' Huntform of 1948, built by Graves in Marblehead for Bradley Noyes, cruised at 35 mph and topped out at 46 with a 1,500-hp Packard V-12. Perhaps the most interesting version of the Huntform hull was a 20' tank-test model for a destroyer that Charles Francis Adams persuaded the Navy’s Bureau of Ships to test. The Navy never took it up, but the BuShips technicians are reported to have been impressed; the model was said to have achieved the speed of a conventional slim destroyer, but—being beamier—was more stable at rest and had far less roll moving through test-tank seas.

http://www.maineboats.com/ray-hunt-yacht-designer

Maybe a Clue???

[Hwyl]

I think you found it, I would contact the office

[CrosbyStriper]

I will contact Hunt's Office, and let you all know if i do indeed find it.