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Hinckley Yachts builds luxury powerboats and motor yachts and provides brokerage and yacht services for all makes and models of yachts.

The staff at The Hinckley Company come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 31.6% female and 30.7% ethnic minorities. The Hinckley Company employees are slightly more likely to be members of the Republican Party than the Democratic Party, with 54.0% of employees identifying as members of the Republican Party. Despite their political differences, employees at The Hinckley Company seem to be happy. The company has great employee retention with staff members usually staying for 4.8 years.

The Hinckley Company is a medium retail company with 740 employees and an annual revenue of $200.0M that is headquartered in Rhode Island.

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Hinckley opens Stamford shipyard

Hinckley Yacht Services Stamford is open for business and will begin hauling yachts for the winter storage season in October, according to a company statement. Peter Manion has joined Hinckley as general manager of the Stamford, Connecticut, yard. Manion will report to Chief Operating Officer Mike Arieta in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Manion previously worked at Derecktor Shipyard in Mamaroneck, New York; Brewer Yacht Haven Marina in Stamford; and Oakcliff U.S. Sailing Center in Oyster Bay, New York. He is a two-time member of the U.S. Sailing Team.

“We are excited to open in Stamford our seventh yacht service location in the U.S.,” Manion said in a news release announcing the opening. “The New York metropolitan area is an important market for us and a wonderful opportunity to extend our service relationship with our customers. We service both Hinckley Yachts and other brands at the absolute highest level in the industry.”

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Hinckley buys Morris Yachts, a rescue by the Zumwalt, and the tallest American chestnut

Beam me up, Scotty

The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy headed out to sea for the first time last December, departing from shipbuilder Bath Iron Works and carefully navigating the winding Kennebec River before reaching the open ocean for sea trials. And the 600-foot, 15,000-ton ship’s very first mission was an unexpected one. 

Bath Iron Works planned to test the ship’s performance and make tweaks this year with the goal of delivering the ship to the Navy sometime next year. The ship’s commander is Navy Capt. James Kirk, and he was chosen for his qualifications as a leader—not because he has the same name as the captain of the fictional Star Trek starship Enterprise . Too bad neither the Coast Guard nor the Zumwalt had access to that Kirk and his tools because then they might have been able to “beam up” the ailing fisherman. 

While the Zumwalt does not have that ability, it does have electric propulsion, new radar and sonar, powerful missiles and guns, and a stealthy design to reduce its radar signature. All of that innovation has led to a growing price tag. The Zumwalt , the first of three ships in its class, will cost at least $4.4 billion. The ship looks like nothing ever built in Maine. The inverse bow juts forward to slice through the waves and sharp angles are said to deflect enemy radar signals. We have been told that the ship’s radar profile will look no bigger than the fishing boat whose captain she rescued. 

Hinckley buys Morris Yachts

The year 2016 in Maine began with big news for boatbuilders. The Hinckley Company announced that it had bought Morris Yachts, closing the deal to acquire the assets of the Mt. Desert Island-area sailboat builder on January 1. Hinckley plans to continue Morris’ boatbuilding and service operations under the name of Morris Yachts, LLC. Both companies build fine luxury yachts within a quarter mile of each other in Trenton, Maine.

Morris Yachts, founded in 1972 by Tom Morris in Southwest Harbor, has built more than 300 sailboats. Founded in 1928, also in Southwest Harbor, Hinckley has expanded since then to include service facilities all along the U.S. East Coast. The company has around 700 employees, including 380 in Maine. An early developer of the fiberglass hull, Hinckley’s present yacht line includes its iconic jet boats, and sailing vessels, including the new Bermuda 50.

In the late 1990s, Hinckley opened a manufacturing facility in Trenton where most of its boats are built. The company was purchased in 2010 by Scout Partners LLC, which in turn bought Hunt Yachts in 2013. Morris began building yachts at its Trenton facility in 1999. The company also operates a service yard in Northeast Harbor.

Morris owners will be welcomed at any of Hinckley’s east coast service yards from Maine to Florida, according to Roe O’Brien, director of marketing for Hinckley. She said no other immediate operational changes were planned as a result of the acquisition, and that Hinckley “has no immediate plans to stop building anything in Morris’s current lineup.” Additional details about the purchase were not available. 

“Hinckley is thrilled to have an even greater pool of talent building products for us,” O’Brien said, “and we are also eager to create the same high level of customer satisfaction among Morris owners that exists among Hinckley owners.”

New below the water, and classic above

A new motoryacht designed to combine classic lobsteryacht lines with the ability to reach higher speeds is in the early stages of design and construction at John Williams Boat Company in Hall Quarry, according to a recent story in the Ellsworth American .

Production Manager Bill Wright told the American that from the waterline up, the new boat will look much like the traditional Stanley 38 lobsteryacht. But the boat will have a modern underbody designed to achieve speeds upward of 40 knots. The latest in propulsion units also is part of the equation.

“The top will be a molded Stanley 38 that we have here,” he told the newspaper, “and the hull itself will be a one-off, brand new hull.”

Designer Doug Zurn of Marblehead, Mass., is working on the hull design, the newspaper reported, which will feature a modified, or deep-V shape, similar to Sabre or Hinckley motoryacht hulls. The construction will be fiberglass over a form core. The company is shooting for late summer 2016 with the new boat.

Canada grants oil exploration lease near Georges Bank

Canadian authorities have granted Norwegian company Statoil an exploratory lease to look for oil in an area 225 miles southeast of Bar Harbor and bordering on the eastern flank of Georges Bank. Environmentalists, who oppose the move, fear drilling could leave the ecologically sensitive Gulf of Maine susceptible to a catastrophic oil spill.

It would be the closest that exploratory drilling has come to Maine since the early 1980s, according to a report in the Portland Press Herald . Five wells were drilled on the U.S. side of Georges Bank in 1981 and 1982, before U.S. and Canadian moratoriums were put in place to protect the fishing grounds, the Portland newspaper reported.

Statoil has pledged to spend at least $82 million exploring the parcels under its six-year exclusive lease. The relatively small financial commitment suggests the company has no immediate plans to begin drilling, which is a much more expensive process that requires further approval, the Press Herald wrote. 

Tallest American chestnut reaches for the sky in Maine

When University of Maine Forest Scientist Brian Roth set out with a graduate student in a small plane last summer to fly over Maine forestland, his goal was to find American Chestnut trees that had survived the chestnut blight. 

He succeeded beyond his wildest dream—finding a majestic specimen that was confirmed in December as the tallest American chestnut in North America. The tree is 115 feet high—taller than most 11-story buildings. This is huge news for tree lovers. American chestnuts ( Castanea dentata ) have been ravaged by an invasive blight that kills the trees to the ground. It is estimated that there are only a few dozen large surviving trees such as this one left in the Maine woods.

The next tallest tree in North America is one in Oregon that is 20 feet shorter, according to the American Chestnut Foundation. The tallest American chestnut in the world at 121 feet is in an arboretum in Belgium, said Ruth Goodridge, the foundation’s director of communications. The Maine tree is growing in Lovell, a town in Oxford County. 

Scientists at the American Chestnut Foundation hope to learn how this tree and others like it have survived the blight so they can develop blight-resistance varieties.

Last spring, Roth and his colleagues made maps looking at soil and climates most likely to support the American chestnut and scouted those places by plane last July when the chestnut trees produce distinctive clusters of white blooms. This tree stood out right away. 

“We knew what we were looking for,” Roth said. “We marked the GPS location and went back in October (by foot) to look again. We found it and the rest is history.”

In all, the UM researchers found about two dozen chestnut trees, including several growing quite close to the new record holder. Once the mighty giants of the eastern forest, American chestnut trees stood up to 100 feet tall, and numbered in the billions. 

The fungal pathogen responsible for chestnut blight was accidentally imported from Asia in the early 1900s and spread rapidly. By 1950 the fungus had eliminated the American chestnut as a mature forest tree.

Maine-built boat sails into history

Some of us at Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors were glued to our computers in early January tracking the progress of the Maine-built superyacht Comanche in Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. The action was quite exciting!

High winds caused damage to some boats, which had to drop out as a result. Comanche almost quit after one of its dagger boards was damaged, sailing 30 or so miles back toward home, before turning around again and continuing the race. Her main remaining competitor, Rambler , also damaged one of its dagger boards.

In the end, when Comanche crossed the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania, owner Kristy Clark was on board, becoming the first female owner to take line honors in the blue water classic, according to a release from the race organizers. Kristy’s co-owner husband Jim Clark did not sail in the race.

Built at Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay, Comanche was skippered by Ken Read of Newport, Rhode Island. 

By all accounts, the finish was spectacular. As Comanche zigzagged close to shore in the fading wind, celebratory lights were flashed on and off from hundreds of houses and cars.

Her finish time of two days eight hours 58 minutes 30 seconds was outside the record of 1 day 18 hours 23 minutes 12 seconds set by Wild Oats XI in 2012.

But it did not matter. The last American to take line honors in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s race was Larry Ellison’s Sayonara , 17 years ago in the fatal 1998 race, so Comanche ’s effort was quite an achievement.

“Baby born not in manger, but on island ferry”

We’ve stopped reading the perennial stories about the first baby in the new year,  but have to admit that the above headline in the Dec. 25 edition of the downeast weekly Quoddy Tides caught our attention.

According to the Tides , on Dec. 9 Jayla Nadene Clinch was born on the Grand Manan Adventure while it was tied up at the Blacks Harbour (New Brunswick, Canada) wharf. The little girl, whose parents are Tanai Sears and Daniel Clinch, wasn’t due until December 20. Sears was on her way to a hospital on the mainland to see if her labor could be induced when her water broke. Her doctor wanted to fly her out, but she told the newspaper: “It was my first baby, so we thought we had plenty of time. We snuck out the back door. The doctors phoned [the ferry] and said ‘Don’t let her on.’” She snuck aboard anyway. Ambulances were called to meet the ferry in Blacks Harbour. But when the ferry docked it was too late to move her. “By the time everybody got off the boat I was at 10 centimeters and ready to push. That was it. I had six pushes. It was really quick for a first baby.”

Ferry staff stood by outside to help the medical team. Amazingly the incident only made the ferry about 20 minutes late for its next run.

“It was great to report to the province that we were late because we were delivering a baby,” the captain said, according to the Tides .

“Frankenfish” headed to the dinner table

Federal regulators cleared the way late last year for genetically engineered salmon to be farmed for human consumption; it was the first-ever such approval for an animal whose DNA has been scientifically modified.

The salmon were developed by AquaBounty Technologies of Massachusetts to grow faster than conventional, farmed salmon. And the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval followed years of deliberations. The FDA has now declared that the salmon is as nutritious as normally grown Atlantic salmon, which means it will not require special labeling. 

The fish are not likely to land in Maine stores anytime soon, though. According to the Portland Press Herald, spokespeople for Hannaford, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Target, and several other national chains with stores in Maine have said they do not plan to sell the genetically modified salmon. 

Hold the shrimp

In addition to genetically altered salmon, Maine shoppers also will be hard pressed to find any local shrimp this year as fisheries regulators have extended a moratorium on fishing for Maine shrimp for a third year. 

The ban was first imposed in 2013 by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Apparently prospects for shrimp recovery are poor for the near future. A commission report says warming New England waters will create an “increasingly inhospitable” environment for the shrimp.

The shrimp were previously sought by commercial fishermen from Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts and were a popular winter item at fish markets.

Island campus

The University of New England has begun using an island two miles off the coast of Saco as a “living laboratory” to study ocean life and the effects of climate change thanks to a Portland real estate developer who gave the family property to the school, according to the Portland Press Herald.

Donated by Art Girard, the island and its surrounding waters are home to migrating songbirds, lounging harbor seals, lots of dogfish sharks, and various intertidal flora and fauna.

Girard’s family bought it for $140,000 in 1999.

Students will use the island to study a range of marine issues, including the impact of climate change and warming Casco Bay waters on the ecosystem.

Girard, a commercial developer, has had a long interest in philanthropy and lighthouses, according to the Press Herald . In 2010, he lost a bidding war—by a coin toss—to purchase Ram Island Ledge lighthouse off Cape Elizabeth, then successfully purchased the Boon Island Light Station off York last year.     

Over the bar

The Maine boating community lost several pillars this fall and winter.

Winfield “Winnie” Lash, 97, of the famous line of Friendship boatbuilders, and Jim McManus, 52, president and CEO of The Hinckley Company, died in November. Chandler “Sandy” McGaw, 58, a long-time manager at Camden’s Wayfarer Marine, and Jeff Armstrong, 64, owner of Jeff’s Marine in Thomaston, left us in January. 

Lash, one of 14 siblings, was a self-taught man of many talents. He owned Lash Brothers Boatyard in Friendship, which he started in 1946 when his uncle, Scott Carter, passed away with a partially completed passenger ferry in the works. At one point or another, all eight Lash brothers, several in-laws, a nephew, and various friends have worked there over the years. Under Lash’s skilled hands, the boatyard completed countless ferries, lobster smacks, seiners, draggers, Friendship sloops, and pleasure boats. His sons said Winnie put a bible in every boat he built.

McManus was appointed president of Hinckley in June 2007. He had a career in the dry cleaning, food services, and financial industries before joining Hinckley shortly before the global economy nosedived in 2008. Under his leadership and new ownership the company navigated the Great Recession and emerged as a more efficient yacht builder and service provider.

A former part-owner of Wayfarer Marine, McGaw was Wayfarer's general manager and a shareholder in the private company until 2008, when it was sold. McGaw remained as general manager before retiring in 2011. When Lyman-Morse acquired Wayfarer in July 2015, McGaw rejoined the staff.

Armstrong began working at Anchorage Marine in Thomaston in 1977. Two years later he bought the business, renamed it Jeff’s Marine and ran it until he died. 

Losing four people as extraordinary as these guys in just a matter of months is a tragedy and a shocking reminder of how important it is to celebrate life while we have it.            

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Inside the last company building boats in Boston

Whenever you drive the Tobin Bridge, just before you leave Charlestown, you’re passing over the last company making boats in Boston.

Along the Mystic River, with several of the Tobin’s trestles planted in the parking lot, Boston Boatworks is continuing a tradition that reaches back centuries. Boston has built boats big and small, from the USS Constitution constructed in the North End, to the clipper ships of Donald McKay’s shipyard in East Boston, to the “unsinkable” Boston Whaler, designed in Braintree.

Walk into Boston Boatworks, and you’re greeted by the smell of the special glue the company uses to make the carbon fiber hulls of its watercraft. Go a little further, and you’ll encounter a half-dozen boats in various stages of construction — including an electric ferry for a popular campground on Three Mile Island in Lake Winnipesaukee.

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Boston Boatworks started life in 1995, as a partnership between Scott Smith, Mark Lindsay, and Geoff Berger. (Lindsay, a renowned designer of sailboats, died in 2019, and Berger is now CEO of Hinckley Yachts, a Rhode Island manufacturer.) The company’s original home was East Boston, in the former Bethlehem Atlantic Works shipyard, which repaired ships for the Navy and Coast Guard.

It outgrew its space there and moved in 2014 to a three-story building with offices on the top, a factory floor, and massive roll-up doors at both ends. One of those roll-up doors faces the Mystic, where docks and a lift allow the company to get boats in and out of the water.

Boston Boatworks first made custom racing sailboats, but eventually concluded that that market was too small. But the company realized that lightweight materials and designs used to make sailboats faster had not penetrated the world of powerboats.

With powerboats, Smith explained, “you can overcome a lot of design deficiencies just by adding more horsepower. Our approach was to take weight out of the boat, use smaller engines — which have less fuel consumption — and materials that don’t fatigue as the boat ages.”

Rather than traditional fiberglass, Boston Boatworks chose to use more expensive carbon fiber — which is lighter, stiffer, and tougher — and borrowed manufacturing techniques from aircraft production, which also uses the material. If you’ve seen the Encore Casino’s water shuttles — built at a cost of about $1 million each — you’ve seen their work.

In the early 2000s, Boston Boatworks was approached by a North Carolina company, MJM Yachts, to build a line of ocean-going yachts; MJM wanted to marry Boston Boatworks’ manufacturing expertise with a sleek, low-slung design from Doug Zurn, a naval architect in Marblehead.

MJM quickly became Boston Boatworks’ largest customer. But in 2019, Boston Boatworks’ relationship with MJM abruptly ended when MJM decided to set up its own factory in North Carolina, citing lower labor and other costs.

That forced Boston Boatworks to scramble. One lifeline came from a $20 million contract to build 10 boats for the Barton & Gray Mariner’s Club, a New Hampshire company that is like Zipcar for the yachting set. Members can reserve a boat and captain in places such as Nantucket, East Hampton, or Boca Raton.

That deal let Barton & Gray design a boat especially for its members, who go out for the day rather than on overnight trips. What had been a sleeping cabin in the Hinckley yachts the club offers became an outdoor space in the bow. The kitchen moved upstairs so that people could more easily gather around the food.

The 48-foot boat, called the Daychaster, is longer, wider, and larger than the Hinckleys, but it is 15 to 20 percent more fuel efficient because of the materials used by Boston Boatworks, said Douglas Gray, Barton & Gray’s cofounder and chief marketing officer.

The Daychaser has become the premium boat in the Barton & Gray’s fleet: members who want access to the Daychaser pay a higher level of annual dues — at least $80,000, in addition to a $20,000 initiation fee. “The Daychaser is very much a competitive advantage for us,” Gray said.

Barton & Gray recently signed a contract for its 16th Daychaser boat; three others have been sold to individual owners.

In 2023, Boston Boatworks announced a new boat that would be the first to bear its name: the Boston Boatworks Offshore Express Cruiser. Three are in various stages of production; a fourth is slated to get started next month.

The first customer in line is Ed Kaye, chief executive of a Bedford biotech company, Stoke Therapeutics. Kaye, who describes himself as “a sailor at heart,” expects to take delivery of the 50-foot craft with twin diesel engines later this year. The base price for that boat, the first model in the company’s Offshore Express Cruiser line, dubbed the BB44, is $2.85 million.

“The design appeals to sailors who are really focused on well-made and functional boats — not just pretty, fast boats,” Kaye said. He also likes the idea of “having a local group of people build something of quality — something that you’ll be proud of.”

Despite a COVID-fueled surge in recent years, sales of boats longer than 35 feet in recent years fell 9 percent in the first four months of this year, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association. Boston Boatworks has reduced its workforce about 30 percent from its peak of 140 in 2019.

The company is still putting a dozen or so new boats into the water each year. The latest: the Appy, the electric ferry bound for service on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Smith, 66, said he plans to stick around his company as long as he can be useful. Boston Boatworks, he added, has never been about making boats at the lowest possible price, or at the fastest possible rate.

“We want to build the best,” he says. “There has always been an understanding that knowledgeable owners understand the value of what we do — and there’s a limited market of those.”

This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Lake Winnipesaukee.

Scott Kirsner can be reached at [email protected] . Follow him @ScottKirsner .

Wanna-be Robber Barons: The Decline of Hinckley Yachts

Hinckley Company was once a boating treasure and legend, known for exceptional craftsmanship and quality design. However, the current state of the company under the ownership of Jerry Lundquist ( McKinsey & Co ), Brooks Gordon ( W. P. Carey ), David Howe ( Scout Partners LLC ) is marked by dangerous safety concerns and a focus solely on profits. It is time for the owners to sell the company and allow a new owner to respect and restore the heritage of this once-great company .

Today we gather here to shed light on a disheartening reality that continues to persist in our society. Just as the term “robber baron” was coined to describe the ruthless and unethical businessmen of the past, it is imperative to draw attention to the modern-day businessmen who, through their actions, put the lives of their employees at risk.

In the pursuit of profit, these individuals prioritize their own financial gain over the well-being and safety of the hardworking individuals who make their businesses thrive. They exploit the weaker every day worker, taking advantage of their vulnerability and disregarding their fundamental rights. This is a grave injustice that must not go unnoticed.

One need not look far to see the evidence of such exploitation. Let us consider the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations that have plagued our nation. The Talaria Company, LLC, operating under Hinckley Yacht Services, stands as a prime example. Their disregard for employee safety and well-being is evident in the serious violations uncovered during inspections.

The company failed to provide medical evaluations to employees required to wear respirators, exposing them to potential harm from hazardous chemicals. They neglected to offer effective information and training on these chemicals, further endangering their workforce. Additionally, precautions to prevent ignition and fire hazards were not taken, risking the lives of employees working in enclosed areas with flammable liquids. These violations are unacceptable and reflect a culture of negligence within the company.

Sadly, The Talaria Company, LLC prioritized profits over the welfare of their employees. Turning a blind eye to safety protocols, discounting the common worker as nothing more than a dispensable cog in the machinery of profit.

Systematic exploitation of the worker cannot be tolerated any longer. A boycott and stronger enforcement is needed to hold these companies accountable for their actions. We demand harsher penalties for those who commit such violations. It is high time that we prioritize the safety, well-being, and dignity of every worker in this nation.

In conclusion, the analogies between the robber barons of the past and the modern businessmen of Hinckley Yachts who put their employees’ lives at risk are striking. Both exhibit a callous disregard for the well-being of those who contribute to their success. We must protect the rights and lives of the common worker.

The Hinckley Death Ship. 53 ways to die on a Hinckley

The Bermuda 40 was Hinckley’s first fiberglass boat. “According to Jack Horner of spinsheet.com “the B-40 was to become the bellwether for future production and established Hinckley as the premier North American Yacht builder of exceptional quality sailing yachts”. Hinckley manufactured 203 Bermuda 40’s over forty years.  Hinckley Yachts in unable to fix a Bermuda 40 without 53 ways to die. 

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SW Harbor & NE Harbor, Maine

The Southwest Harbor yard is at the heart of the Hinckley legend. It began in 1928 as a small service yard and today ranks as a world-class service facility . The Hinckley Southwest Harbor yard attracts a local, national, and international community of yachtsmen who want their boats to have the highest level of care and service. From boat painting to fiberglass fabrications for refits, to boat canvas and upholstery, marine diesel service and rigging, all the marine services and trades are standing by for you and your boat.

Hinckley now also operates a Northeast Harbor facility to offer slips for vessels up to 80 feet and a complete service and repair yard at the coveted entrance to Acadia National Park.  Our Northeast Harbor yard is ideally situated for cruising boaters with access to many local restaurants, provisioning services, tennis courts, showers, laundry facilities, fuel, and pump-out services.

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Boat Restoration, Yacht Restoration

Classic boats are our specialty. The Hinckley yard shares resources with our nearby Hinckley production facility so we can bring extraordinary expertise to bear including engineering of on board systems or help and advice with design changes. If you are planning a classic yacht restoration, talk to us. We have over 85 years of experience to share. Ask to see our portfolio of classic yacht refits.

At Hinckley Southwest Harbor our mechanical department is highly experienced with certified technicians to work on marine engines, marine generators, exhaust and fuel systems, prop, jet or pod drive systems. From marine diesel repair to propeller repair or pod replacement, Hinckley’s machine shop is a boat repair resource providing captains and owners with in-depth service.

Hinckley Southwest Harbor has marine diesel repair and repower experience with Cummins Marine diesels, Yanmar,  Volvo marine diesels and IPS, Westerbeke, Caterpillar, and all major marine diesel engines. We also repair and replace bow thrusters, windlasses, hydraulic systems, fixed and variable pitch props, and shafts.

CONTACT INFORMATION

130 Shore Road. Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 Tel: 207-300-2010 [email protected] DIRECTIONS

Northeast Harbor

Northeast Harbor, ME 04662 Tel: (207) 300-2010

FACILITIES & CAPABILITIES

Boat Painting, Marine Finishes, Fiberglass Repair

Whether you require Awlgrip, Alexseal, Interlux or other marine paint finish, Hinckley Southwest Harbor has a state of the art paint booth that will paint your boat to look like new. We take pride in being the best in the industry in yacht painting. Whether you need hull paint or a complete hull and deck paint job, we will be happy to provide an estimate for your boat and complete your new boat painting project on time and on budget. While your yacht is with us, take advantage of our renowned fiberglass repair and gel-coat repair. Hinckley has all your boat painting and yacht finishing needs covered.

Our facilities can accommodate boats up to 140’ with separate facilities for mast refinishing.

Marine varnish and teak refinishing are specialties. Let Hinckley Southwest Harbor restore your teak deck, bring back the luster of your yacht’s brightwork, replace teak rails or other trim pieces. Let Hinckley Southwest Harbor give your teak varnish a brilliant finish.

Boat Storage

With our 16 acres of waterfront and 113,000 square feet of indoor boat storage, Hinckley will make sure your boat is secure and dry for the winter storage season. We have room to store over 300 boats, which can be professionally shrink-wrapped with or without access door. Hinckley provides more indoor boat storage than any boatyard in the area. For boat storage, all the options are available for all makes and models at Hinckley Southwest Harbor.

Hinckley Southwest Harbor also has boat moorings available on Somes Sound, in the heart of Maine’s favorite cruising grounds. We are happy to arrange dockage upon request.

Boat Upholstery

We offer complete boat upholstery, boat cushion fabrication and marine canvas services for all boat seating, indoor and outdoor canvas. From bimini to settees, to port shades, boat curtains and crew carpet, call on us. Our marine upholstery department will work with you or your designer to create just the right boat interior.

Welding and Fabrication

Hinckley Southwest Harbor completes structural boat repairs and modifications in steel, aluminum, bronze, titanium and stainless steel for all types of marine applications. Southwest Harbor can handle any marine metal fabrication for deck hardware, mechanical, thru-hull or other marine fitting repair or replacement. We have a full polishing shop on site.

Whether you need a to repair the running rigging, replace a hydraulic system or install a new winch or roller furler, our sailboat rigging department has the expertise. We are servicing dealers for Antal, Lewmar, Edson, Harken, Navtec, Ronstan, Schaefer and more.

Marine Electronics

Take advantage of the the advancements in marine electronics and improve the safety, security and efficiency of your boat. We are servicing marine electronics dealers for Foruno, Raymarine, KVH, Simrad, B&G, Flir, Northstar, Garmin and most other marine electronics.

Marine Carpentry

Hinckley’s reputation is well deserved and recognized throughout the world. Let our shipwrights work on your teak deck, toe rail, overhead, cabinetry or any fine detail including port and windshield replacements.

PROJECT GALLERY

Cynosure- Rhodes 41 refit

• Gutted the entire boat down to the fiberglass hull and deck
• Designed and built a new interior
• Installed all new wiring
• Installed all new systems including engine
• Installed all new electronics New stanchions, windlass and winches
• New jib furler, standing rigging and running rigging
• Painted hull, deck and spars
• View Project Gallery

80′ Burger

• Repair corrosion to the aluminum hull including re-plating the bottom
• Fill, fair, paint the hull with Alexseal
• Re-caulk teak

55′ Hinckley Jetboat

• Reconfigure and rebuild the master cabin and main salon
• Fabricate and install overhead in salon
• Replace galley and head counters with stone and Corian
• Finish interior in high gloss; faux paint the port frames in wood-grain
• Fabricate and install FRP seating in the cockpit
• Fabricate and install custom designed ladder and rail to the flybridge
• Install all new electronics
• Re-upholster all cushions
• Paint the hull, deck and bridge with Awlgrip

Little Harbor 54′

• Remove and replace transom with reshaped and extended transom