Ray Hunt/Lallow 23 ft Twin Screw Express Cruiser 1961/1995

There are motor boats, and there are motor boats, and then there is HUMDRUM: quite simply one of the most exquisite boats of this type we have encountered. She comes with impeccable DNA: her lines a gift from C. Raymond Hunt to Sir Max Aitken around the time Clare Lallow of Cowes were completing Aitken's radical, 'keel-less' Hunt-designed 58 ft ocean racing sloop DRUMBEAT. HUMDRUM's hull lines are almost identical to the ground-breaking Ray Hunt Bertram 31 MOPPIE design that so completely shook the world of offshore powerboat racing from 1960. HUMDRUM is firmly part of that historical moment in time, when Hunt demonstrated just how effective his "Deep-V" hull type was in efficiently powering through seas with great stability. Sir Max Aitken was the driving force in post-war British powerboating, and HUMDRUM is a beautiful reminder of these times, when HUMDRUM and the Fairey Marine Huntress were the first 'Deep-V' boats in UK waters. HUMDRUM has always remained in Aitken family ownership and been dry-boated. She was restored and re-powered in the mid-1990s by renowned wood-composite specialist Frank Hoare, and has been little used since.

MID-1990s BY WOOD-COMPOSITE SPECIALIST FRANK HOARE, WEST SUSSEX
- Hull stripped inside and out
- Coachroof replaced
- Re-engined
- All tanks and systems replaced

- Ray Hunt "Deep-V" lines
- Hot moulded mahogany hull
- Bright finished
- Hull frames and stringers
- Deck beams and stringers
- Chine lifting strake
- Lifting strakes in underbody
- Teak laid deck on marine plywood
- Varnished mahogany covering boards and king plank
- Chromed gunwale rubbing strip all round
- Varnished mahogany plywood trunk cabin with painted glass roof

MECHANICAL
- 2 x Volvo Penta 250 130 hp petrol engines (c.1995)
- 2 x Volvo Penta stern drives (c.1995)

ELECTRICAL
- 2 x Engine start batteries
- Electric air intake fans port and starboard in engine compartment

TANKAGE
- Port aft fuel tank: 51 L
- Port fwd fuel tank: 32 L
- Stbd aft fuel tank: 76 L
- Stbd fwd fuel tank 22 L
- Total fuel 181 L / 40 Gal

FROM AFT TRANSOM
- Carved and gilded vessel name
- Vents and outlets
- Stern light
- Stern drives

AFT DECK
- Chromed ensign staff socket
- Chromed mooring fairleads port and starboard
- Chromed mooring cleats port and strarboard
- 2 x Chromed engine space air intake cowls port and starboard
- 2 x Hinged, flush engine space doors

COCKPIT
- Varnished mahogany coaming rising to trunk cabin sides port and starboard
- Teak laid sole over marine plywood
- Lockers under side decks port and starboard
- Helm position to port of companionway
- Silva steering compass
- Engines monitors and controls
- Tank gauges
- Bilge pump switches
- Bulkhead with chromed grab rail to starboard of companionway
- 2 x Louvred companionway doors

SIDE DECKS
- 2 x Retractable chromed spring cleats in covering boards port and starboard
- 2 x Tank fillers port and starboard

TRUNK CABIN
- Varnished uprights
- Large styled windows port and starboard
- 2 x Styled forward windows
- Port and starboard period navigation lights
- Tank vents port and starboard
- Painted glass roof
- Teak laid roof aft of windscreen
- Chromed grabrails port and starboard
- Burgee staff
- Windscreen
- Steering Compass

FOREDECK
- Mooring bollard in king plank
- 2 x Chromed mooring fairleads
- Stainless steel pulpit

FROM COMPANIONWAY, DOWN ONE STEP TO TEAK AND HOLLY CABIN SOLE

Main cabin
- Berths with berth cushions port and starboard
- Stowage under and outboard
- Shelf forward

Forepeak
- Locker to port
- Banquet to starboard
- Shelf to port
- Raised shelf section forward

- Silva Type 150 steering compass

- Fireblitz automatic engine space fire extinguisher system
- 2 x 12 V Bilge pumps with float switches

- Mooring warps
- Fenders