ABOUT THE 110, Specifications, Designer, Historical List of Fleets

LOA: 24' LWL: 18'
Beam: 4' 3"
Draft: 2' 9"
Displacement: 910 lbs.
Rig: SloopSail
Area: Main and genoa, 157 sq. ft.; Spinnaker, 100 sq. ft.

110 Construction:
Hull: Fiberglass or wood (originally marine plywood).
Hard chined, flat bottom.
Keel: Fin-bulb.
Spars: Metal or wood (originally wood).
Whisker and spinnaker pole materials optional.
Slotted boom permitted under Class rules.
Mast Height: 23'

Designer: Charles Raymond "Ray" Hunt
First Built: 1939
Number of Hulls Built: over 700

Current Builder:

Westease Yacht Service, Inc.
100 Aniline Ave
NHolland, MI 49424-6407
616-394-0076 (no website at present)



110 class: The Designer











Ray Hunt, Timeless Design. The International 110 was conceived by famed designer, Ray Hunt in 1939. While hardly a household name, Hunt remains best known for making speed, stability and handling an everyday part of motorboating. His deep-vee design, changed powerboating forever.
Charles Raymond Hunt was a complex man with a quick mind and little affinity for business and fame. Among his sailing creations are the classic Concordia yawl, the International 110, the International 210, and the 12 Meter America's cup boat - Easterner.
In 1932, Hunt worked for Boston designer Frank Paine. Although he didn't have a formal naval design education, Hunt nevertheless had talent and instinct. He started learning about design and how boats move through the water as a young sailor in Duxbury.
While working for Paine, the 24-year-old Hunt met Waldo Howland, son of a Paine designer. The two formed the Concordia Co. in 1932 to design, build and broker boats. Their first effort was the B-class frostbite dinghy, soon being sailed successfully by Corny Shields and Briggs Cunningham.
The Concordia yawl and the International 110, both introduced in 1938-39, stand out as early examples of Hunt's design versatility. The first was pure tradition, setting a tone for more than 100 subsequent Concordias. Built for Howland, the yawl and those that followed earned a reputation for speed, beauty, and sea-kindliness.
By the late 1930's, Hunt departed completely from accepted design norms with the 24-foot International 110. A racing sloop with low wetted surface and lots of sail area offset by a ballasted fin keel, it performed more like a modern sport boat than a 1930s club racer. According to John Deknatel, President of C. Raymond Hunt Associates, "Similar configurations can be seen today in America's Cup boats."
Hunt brought that kind of innovation to powerboats after World War II. For nearly 50 years planing hulls had sharp bows and flat sterns and were pounded in high seas and were hard to steer in a following sea. Those were the problems Hunt solved through instinct and observation. "He was intuitive as opposed to being an engineering type," said Deknatel, who began working with Hunt in 1966. "He had an active mind that was wrapped 150 percent around boats, and he could focus in on basic problems undistracted by outside influences." Hunt shunned the accolades that started coming his way and, as a result, some people considered him standoffish, Deknatel recalled.
He also kept sailing. In 1957, he captured six of seven races at the prestigious Cowes Week in England in his own Concordia, Harrier. Jim Hunt raced the Hunt designed 5.5 Meter to an Olympic gold medal in 1960, and Ray Hunt won the 5.5 worlds in his own design, Chaje II, in 1964 with Jim as crew.
Hunt, who died in 1978 at 70, never successfully patented the idea and never got rich off it. A private man, he shunned publicity and eventually faded from the public eye.
Yet, when the Museum of Yachting in Newport wanted to kick off its annual "designer" rendezvous series, it chose Hunt's designs for the theme.
Hunt's designs have stood the test of time. When Rhode Island sailboat builder Alden Yachts decided to get into motoryachts years ago, it put its money on a Ray Hunt descendant designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates, the Boston design firm Hunt founded in 1966.
After his death, Hunt was honored by the Museum of Yachting in Newport, RI, he was named to the National Marine Manufacturers Hall of Fame and honored with the Ole Evinrude Award for his contribution to powerboating. Almost all of his Concordias are still sailing throughout the world, the International 110 and International 210 has fleets throughout North America and his tri-hull designs for Boston Whaler still stand the test of time.
While other designers can be credited with breakthrough designs, the thing that makes Ray Hunt different is that he was an innovator in both power and sail.
For more information on C. Raymond Hunt Associates, please visit: http://www.crhunt.com/


THE HISTORY OF THE 110 CLASS

Past National Championship WinnersChartered Fleets

110 Class Association Chartered Fleets"
1 Marblehead,MA 1940
2 W. L. I. S., Larchmont, NY 1940
3 Detroit, MI 1940
4 Wilmette Harbor, IL 1940
5 M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 1941
6 Gull Lake, MI 1941
*7 Macatawa Bay, Holland, MI 1941
8 Los Angeles, CA 1941
9 Cohasset, MA 1941
*10 Ocean City, NJ 1941
11 Sue Island, Baltimore, MD 1941
12 E. L. I. S., New London, CT 1941
13 San Diego, CA 1941
*14 Hull Bay, Hull, MA 1941
15 Lake Onondaga, Syracuse, NY 1941
16 Kaneohe, Hawaiian Islands 1941
*17 Boston Bay, Boston, MA 1941
18 S.F. Bay, San Francisco,CA 1941
19 Lake Washington, Seattle,WA 1941
20 Chapoquoit, W. Falmouth, MA 1947
21 Beverley, MA 1947
22 Manchester Y.C., Manchester, MA 1947
23 Narragansett Bay, RI 1947
24 Tampa Bay, FL 1947
25 Newport Harbor, CA 1948
26 Richmond, CA 1949
27 Mallets By La Champlain BurlingtonVT 1950
*28 Montrose Harbor, Chicago, IL 1950
29 Hingham, MA 1951
30 Coronado, CA 1951
31 Monroe Boat Club, Monroe,MI 1951
32 Central Valley, CA 1952
33 Mission Bay, LaJolla, CA 1953
34 Edgartown Y. C. Martha's Vineyard MA 1954
35 Lake Massabesic, Manchester, NH 1954
*36 Saginaw Bay, Bay City, MI 1954
37 Indian Harbor Y.C., Greenwich, CT 1955
38 Beverly Y.C., Marion, MA 1955
39 New Bedford Y.C., S. Dartmouth, MA 1956
40 Massapoag Lake, Sharon, MA 1957
41 Scituate Harbor Y.C., Scituate, MA 1957
42 Mullett Lake, Topinabee, MI 1958
43 Eastchester Bay, City Island, NY 1959
44 Lake Quannapowitt, Wakefield, MA 1959
45 Manila Bay, Phillipines 1959
*46 Alexander Lake, Dayville, CT 1959
47 Northport Bay, Long Island Sound, NY 1965
48 Burnham Park Harbor, Chicago, IL 1966
49 Gloucester, MA 1966
50 Chattanooga, TN 1967
51 Washington, DC 1967
52 Quincy Bay, Quincy, MA 1971
53 Wessagussett, Weymouth, MA 1974
*54 Newport, RI 1985
55 Chicago Y. C., Chicago, IL 1992
*56 Inverness Y. C., Tomalas Bay, CA 1992
*57 State of Maine 2004
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Replacement Rudder Link -

http://www.philsfoils.com/Designs/Intl110.html

Archived MIT launching of 2 International 110's

http://www-tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_060/TECH_V060_S0126_P001.pdf
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