America’s Cup chooses Hunt Yachts for RIBs

Posted on 09 November 2011
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hunt1109America's Cup Race Management in San Diego will be using HBI 30 hard-bottom inflatables by Hunt Yachts as their "VIP Guest Experience" spectator boats when the AC 45 catamarans race there Nov. 16-20.

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This will be the first America’s Cup World Series event to be hosted in the United States.

The HBI 30 is designed and built by Portsmouth, R.I.-based Hunt Yachts to be a luxury tender and sport boat for use in demanding conditions, precisely what is found when serving as a spectator boat for the racing AC 45 catamarans.

HBI Boats, of the Noank section of Groton, Conn., is providing the HBI 30s, continuing a tradition it established in 1992 of America’s Cup service when its craft supported America3.

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1 Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:06
By Bill
The tradition goes back to 1958 when Josh Hunt drove Courier, a Hunt 23' tender to Easterner in the America's Cup trials. Dick Bertram saw that boat and had Ray Hunt design him a boat he nicknamed "Moppie", the rest is history!

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