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The nexus of this handsome project designed by C. Ray Hunt Associates is lobster pots, or rather the line that connects the buoys to the traps. A New England resident, the client had his fill of lines wrapped around shafts and props and so switched to waterjet propulsion with his last boat, a 38-foot soft-top cruiser built at Maine’s Lyman Morse.

“Despite the extra cost and decreased mid-range performance of waterjet propulsion, he liked the boat so much that he used it far more than he thought he would, even taking it south for the winter,” says Peter Boyce, Hunt’s chief designer. “Two years ago we began discussing a larger, faster boat for him almost by accident.” ...

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