International Association

The Builder

New 210s being built!

The 210 Class is proud to announce the selection of Shaw Yacht, Inc. of Thomaston, Maine to build our new boats!  Boat #462 is currently under construction and will be race ready by this summer.  Bernie Shaw is a renowned builder of one design yachts, including Maine’s 2005 Boat of the Year, the Dark Harbor 20, and the classic Wianno Senior. 

This new boat carries a base price of $28,000 making it the most affordable one design racing keel boat on the market.  This boat is available for purchase now, allowing the new owner to specify custom rigging and options. 

For more information contact class President, Greg Sullivan at 781-749-4141 or email Greg.

Here’s a photo of the new boat taken on 2/15/06 taken at Shaw Yacht in Rockland, Maine.  The deck and grid are installed, the seat cleats are in and the interior has been coated with grey gel coat.  Out of view in the shop work was progressing on the construction of new fiberglass seat molds.  Yes, we’re going to fiberglass seats with molded in nonskid. a toe rail of the same wood as the coamings will be fitted to the seats.  A new buyer at this point can choose his options, but it won’t last long. Jim Robinson, 781-749-3259

History and Information

With it’s 5:1 length-to-beam ratio, low displacement to length ratio, hard chines, and streamlined fin and bulb keel that is state-of-the-art for today’s racing machines, there is something just right about this boat. That’s why 210s maintain their value for year after year.

EASY TEST TO FIND OUT:

1. Do you love to go fast ?

2. Do you crave one-design competition ?

3. Do you dream of a boat that achieves high marks in both performance and comfort so That racing won’t be such an ordeal, and sailing for pleasure will be really rewarding ?

4.  Want a neat daysailer?

YES? THEN READ ON.

Whenever a one-design lasts and continues to perform smartly enough to attract a savvy following, there has to be good reason. With the 210, it’s simple: C. Raymond Hunt’s pace-setting 30’ design is as slippery today as it was off that inspired man’s drawing table. With it’s 5:1 length-to-beam ratio, low displacement to length ratio, hard chines, and streamlined fin and bulb keel that is state-of-the-art for today’s racing machines, there is something just right about this boat. That’s why 210s maintain their value for year after year.

length 29’ 10”; beam 5’ 10”; draft 3’ 10”;
displacement 2300 pounds; ballast 1200; sail area main & jib 305 sq ft;
spinnaker 400 sq ft; crew number 3; no hiking assists.

The 210 is sleek, exciting, and offers great fleet competition. The boat was designed to meet interclub racing needs in Massachusetts Bay, and it’s the only racing class that has several active fleets in the Bay: Boston, Hingham, and Cohasset. There’s a sixth fleet in nearby Falmouth. There are two fleets in Michigan- Muskegon and Gull Lake; one in Milwaukee; and many boats in Maine, Gloucester and Marblehead, and some on the Chesapeake Bay.

The Sullivan Trophy Regatta at the end of June brings the fleets together for the first time. Other big regattas and race-weeks throughout the summer augment the busy fleet calendars. All the action builds to the Nationals, held each year in August, where the competition is keen.

The 210 shows its heels to most boats in its category, even the full-out racing machines that require acrobatic crews with high pain thresholds. And leaving 40-footers in it’s wake is one of the 210’s embarrassing habits.

Day Sailing?
As this wonder sails with quiet confidence into the 21st Century, it remains a challenging racer, a satisfying day sailor.

IF SAILING MEANS AS MUCH TO YOU AS RACING, THE 210 WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN.

The late Ray Hunt (a man of few words) on how the 210 design came about: “Several people came to me asking, ‘Why not a larger boat than the 110 based on the same principals: racing performance and a safe, family boat.’ “

THE 210 PERFORMS.
There’s usually a Catch-22 attached to boats that perform: discomfort. The owners of 210s have to smile at that old saw because it doesn’t apply. Racing, 210 sailors sit on the rail with their feet on the thwarts when it blows. Otherwise they’re on comfortable bench seats, that can sit 6, with wide coamings behind their shoulders.

Most important of all, the 210 provides comfort without sacrificing an iota of performance.

Performance and comfort is a powerful combination.  It puts the 210 in a league of its own.

The 210 construction has evolved over the years, but adhere to the one-design specifications and boats from all four generations have won the National Championship that is sailed in the mid-West and the East in alternate years.  Measurement certificates are carefully maintained by an active rules and measurement committee. The governing board meets frequently to discuss ways to keep the class modern while maintaining its basic integrity.  The hull and keel molds are owned the class association and builders are carefully monitored.  Old or new boats can be equally fast and fun.  Why not join the fun?

Designer

C. Raymond Hunt
1908-1978

Naval Architect: 210, 110, 5.5 Meter,
Concordia Yawl, 12 Meter, Boston Whaler.

C. Raymond Hunt was an internationally known and respected helmsman and yacht designer. He won the Sears Cup twice, the first time when he was only fifteen years old. He sailed R-boats, Q-boats, 8-meters, and was a member of the afterguard of the J-boat “Yankee”. He had an uncanny ability as a helmsman to know how to move a boat through the water fast. His intuitive skills enabled him to become one of the most innovative designers of his time. Although he had no formal education beyond prep school, he developed radically new designs, which made a strong contribution to the development of yachting.

In the late 30’s Hunt designed the 110, one of the first boats made of marine plywood. The 110 was a flat-bottomed, double-ended, 24-ft. splinter that was the first of the semi-planing hulls. It was light, easy to care for and inexpensive. Ray designed the Concordia Yawls in 1939. It seems safe to say that to this day Concordias have given more pleasure to more owners and won more important races than any other boat of similar type. After the war, the 110 was followed by the still-popular, larger 210. His 5.5-Meter “Minotaur” captured the Olympic gold in Naples. In 1963, Ray Hunt sailed his “Chaje II” to the 5,5 World Championships. He developed the 13-ft. Boston Whaler in the mid fifties. Thousands have been built and the design has changed little through the years. His most significant contribution to powerboats, however, was the development of the deep-vee.

A quiet introspective man, C. Raymond Hunt stood alone in the world of yachting. Not only was he an internationally known and respected helmsman, but he was unmatched in his ability to design innovative power and sailing yachts.

1959 I210 from Yachting Magazine