However, for luxury yacht owners on a budget, it turns out that the warranty on Hinckley yachts is lifelong, and we chatted with one fellow on the line who has done warranty work on boats that are decades old, all at no cost to the owner, even the current owner didn’t buy the boat new from Hinckley. Sheer elegance on the water - and skillfully driven too! If you are in the class that can buy two Hinckleys and have the second one be a total redesign of the standard fare, then you aren’t really watching your wallet when it comes to repairing these things down the road. But 29′ was too long for the spot he wanted to stow it on deck, so he had them make new molds and redesign the 29′ runabout to a shorter 26′ version, just for him. They even had one customer who found that one 29′ Hinckley runabout wasn’t enough for his megayacht, so he had them build a second one.
Chris said it’s not uncommon for their customers to pick up a 43′ Hinckley to be a tender to a 200′ megayacht. We were amazed to learn that many Hinckley poweryachts are actually used as tenders to megayachts. Hinckley yachts are of the same caliber but max out at a half or a third of the length of Sunseekers. Our British yachtworker friend Derren has the unique dream job of flying all over the world to the most exclusive and fanciest marinas on every coast to do warranty work on British Sunseeker megayachts. Now, these wonderful boats are not megayachts like we saw all through our cruise in Mexico. Wouldn’t it be fun to step off the swim platform into waist deep water and walk onto a deserted palm tree studded white sand beach?!! Without a prop, a Hinckley poweryacht of 40 to 55 feet can float in just 2 to 3 feet of water - ideal for the Bahamas where every bay is super shallow - and they can cruise at 30 to 40 knots easily!! These engines similar to the ones used on jet skis, and they Hinckley’s boats completely. Hinckley’s modern essence is power boats!īack in 1998, they started putting jet drive engines into their power boats. What put Hinckley on the map in the last two decades wasn’t their gorgeous Sou’wester sailboats that sent their reputation soaring in the latter half of the 1900’s.
Now they employ 265 people and they are going gang busters. You can specify anything you want on your Hinckley!Īll boat builders (and RV manufacturers) had a terrible time with the financial collapse of 2008, and Hinckley sharnk to just 40 employees and 4-5 boats on the production line at the time.
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