RAEHUNTER was purchased in April 1960 from Chris Craft and transported via rail car from Algonac to Portland, Oregon dealer, Staff Jennings, by original owner (unknown). Six months into boat ownership, the new owner hit a log in the Columbia River, dislodged a prop shaft, started rapidly taking on water, beached on a sandbar and sold the boat. In late 1960, the second owner, Olympia, WA architect Gordon VonTorne purchased and moved the boat to its current boathouse location at the Olympia Yacht Club at the Southernmost point of Puget Sound and named her ‘Happy Time’. VonTorne passed away in the 1980’s and boat was left abandoned in the boathouse for 10 years. Boat was purchased in the 1990’s by the 3rd owners, Dan and Georgia Rae Martin, in derelict state, and completely refurbished, re-powered (twin 7.4L PCM MPI’s + Westerbeke Genset) and re-named ‘Rae-Hunter’, a combination of the Martin’s middle names. We purchased the boat and boathouse in 2018, and slightly altered the name by removing the hyphen and going all-caps (RAEHUNTER), as we liked the name and we primarily use the boat to hunt for sunshine (which can be rare in the PNW). Most originality has been maintained, layout has been slightly altered, galley settee removed and replaced with matching cabinets and countertops, and forward head has been removed and replaced with a shower. Original 10’ Pen Yan Aerodinghy tender remains with boat, AB helmstation RIB tender is currently on weaver davits on stern.