![]() Due to the recession of the early 80’s, the luxury sail boat market fell on hard times and Tucker made the decision to sell the company. Tucker hired William Moyer to run the company where he oversaw the development of the Sou’wester 42. In 1979 Henry Hinckley sold the company to Richard Tucker. The last Hinckley-built wooden boat was the 1960 “Osprey.” Throughout the 1960s the company provided navigation systems along with auto-pilot and electric-powered furling mainsails. His first fiberglass sailboat, the Bermuda 40, was launched in 1960. During the 1950s, Hinckley began experimenting with the use of fiberglass to construct his yachts’ hulls by building small runabouts. 62 original Sou’Westers were built, making it the largest fleet of single design cruising boats of its time. In 1945 the Sou’wester sailboat was created. Hinckley’s production of pleasure boats began soon after the war. At the end of the war Hinckley’s contributions totaled nearly 40% of all war boats built in Maine, for which the company was awarded two Army-Navy “E’s” for excellence in 19. Īt the start of World War II, Hinckley turned to manufacturing war-designed boats. ![]() Straying away from boatbuilding, Hinckley opened Manset Marine Supply Company in 1940 for which he designed many fittings for fuel tanks, stanchions, deck plates, and the like that are still utilized today. Hinckley would go on to produce 20 of these sloops, making them the company’s first mass production line. Five years later, in 1938, Hinckley came out with its first sailing vessel, a 28-foot Sparkman & Stephens sloop. ![]() A 36-foot “fisherman motorboat” dubbed “Ruthyeolyn” built in 1933 was Hinckley’s first boat. Hinckley, an engineering graduate from Cornell, took control of the company. Hinckley after he purchased a small boatyard in Southwest Harbor, ME. Hinckley was founded in 1928 by Benjamin B.
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