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Hunt Surfhunter 25 Center Console Wins Best New Powerboat at 2007 Newport International Boat Show
 Newport, RI -- "Newport For New Products" has long been a featured program at the Newport International Boat Show. Now, with the support of Cruising World, Power Cruising, and Sailing World magazines, it’s become a featured program of the boating industry! Judging of the Newport International Boat Show’s Best New Sailboat, Best New Powerboat and Best New Boating Product took place on opening day, with winners announced on Friday, September 14, 2007. The strict criteria legitimizes the awards that are given... as judged on the basis of innovation, value to the consumer and aesthetics, as seen by industry experts.
With 50 entries from all over the world, judges of Newport For New Products selected Hunt Yachts' new Surfhunter 25 Center Console as the "Best Powerboat." The Surfhunter 25 CC is built on the established Surfhunter 25 hull with a complete design change that allows for a center console configuration with three power options to include a gas or diesel jackshaft stern drive, an inboard diesel shaft drive, or diesel water jet drive propulsion. The judges noted the “excellent build quality throughout” with “great details and design…right to the surprisingly roomy stand-up head”. In total, the judges chose the 25 as a boat that brings “New England flair to the center console market”. [ More... ]
Hunt 36 Harrier Debuts at Miami, Wins NMMA Innovation Award.
South Dartmouth and Boston, MA -- Hunt Yachts introduced the Harrier 36 express cruiser, designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates, at the Miami International Boat Show (February, 2003). Only days after its completion, it was evaluated by a distinguished and experienced panel of judges who selected this handsome, high-performance sport cruiser as the 2003 Winner of NMMA’s Innovation Award for inboard powerboats. [ More... ]
Hunt Wins “Excellence in Marketing” Honor
The Slade’s Ferry Bank Center for Business Research at the University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth) listed Hunt Yachts as the winner of an Outstanding Marketing Award. This was announced at an Award Dinner in May, 2003 in an annual program to recognize firms “providing consistently high quality, creating high brand/name recognition, exhibiting creativity, and generating “buzz” (getting people talking).”
Hunt Yachts was cited as “the new boat sales and brokerage arm of Boston-based design firm C. Raymond Hunt Associates Inc., which is among the foremost firms in the field of powerboats and their recreational use.” Nominations for these awards were received from a large spectrum of individuals and businesses throughout southeastern Massachusetts as well as from four leading Chambers of Commerce.
Ray Hunt Joins Two Halls of Fame
C. Raymond Hunt (1908-1978) was inducted into both the NMMA and the Marblehead Yacht Racing Halls of Fame. The Marblehead induction in 1989 was in the first group for that Hall, established at the 100th Anniversary of Marblehead Race Week. Ray was one of just 11 honorees, which included Olympic medallists, America’s Cup Winner (and sailmaker extraordinaire Ted Hood), and other world champions, past and present.
In 1992, Ray was honored again, similarly, by the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), whose Hall of Fame was created to “recognize individuals who have or continue to generate substantial and lasting contributions toward advancement of the marine industry.” His citation includes mention of his many racing successes, his famous sailboat designs, and his original and innovative designs that forever changed powerboat design worldwide: an “impressive legacy.”
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