{"id":22302,"date":"2015-02-25T20:49:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22302"},"modified":"2015-02-25T20:49:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:49:46","slug":"with-four-sailboats-under-way-its-back-to-the-future-at-hinckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/02\/with-four-sailboats-under-way-its-back-to-the-future-at-hinckley\/","title":{"rendered":"With Four Sailboats Under Way, It’s Back to the Future at Hinckley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There was a time when, among the boating crowd, the phrase \u201ca Hinckley\u201d conjured up visions of elegant sailing yachts with graceful sheerlines, long overhangs, powerful rigs and plenty of varnish.<\/p>\n

Over the past several years, though, Hinckley has become better known for its powerboats. Ranging in line from 29 to 55 feet, the company\u2019s semi-custom, waterjet-powered Picnic Boats, runabouts and cruisers have become the a leading choice for an affluent audience. Some of those Jetboat buyers are new boaters, but many of them are experienced, older yachtsmen \u2014 often owners of a Hinckley sailboat \u2014 ready for the convenience of powerboating but with the same quality they have enjoyed.<\/p>\n

The Jetboat isn\u2019t going away. On a visit to the Hinckley plant in Trenton last week, Sales Director Eric Roos said the company, founded in 1928, now has more employees \u2014 some 250 or so in Maine \u2014 than it has ever had and that 2014 was \u201cthe best year for new boat sales in the company\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Jetboats represented the vast majority of those sales, last year Hinckley got back into the sailboat business, and in a big way. Four sailboats are currently under construction at the Trenton plant \u2014 the first time in years that Hinckley has had that many sailboats to build, let alone to build at the same time. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time when, among the boating crowd, the phrase \u201ca Hinckley\u201d conjured up visions of elegant sailing yachts with graceful sheerlines, long overhangs, powerful rigs and plenty of varnish. Over the past several years, though, Hinckley has become better known for its powerboats. Ranging in line from 29 to 55 feet, the company\u2019s semi-custom, waterjet-powered Picnic Boats, runabouts and cruisers have become the a leading choice for an affluent audience. Some of those Jetboat buyers are new boaters, but many of them are experienced, older yachtsmen \u2014 often owners of a Hinckley sailboat \u2014 ready for the convenience of powerboating but with the same quality they have enjoyed. The Jetboat isn\u2019t going away. On a visit to the Hinckley plant in Trenton last week, Sales Director Eric Roos said the company, founded in 1928, now has more employees \u2014 some 250 or so in Maine \u2014 than it has ever had and that 2014 was \u201cthe best year for new boat sales in the company\u2019s history.\u201d While Jetboats represented the vast majority of those sales, last year Hinckley got back into the sailboat business, and in a big way. Four sailboats are currently under construction at the Trenton …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22304,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22302\/revisions\/22304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}