![]() New product in 2015 included the Bermuda 50 sailboat and a Talaria 43 jet boat. When you get that culture right, you just need to introduce new and exciting value propositions-new product.” A happy client generates the next sale prospect. Employees know the quality of work they do generates the next happy client. It owns six service yards along the East Coast and counts 1,500 Hinckley yacht owners and 5,000 service customers among its worldwide clientele. The workforce numbers almost 320, up from 220-240 two years ago. The production backlog is at almost a 10-year high, with 56 boats splashed in 2015 and about the same number scheduled for 2016. Hinckley is also the parent company of Hunt Yachts, in Portsmouth, R.I., and is itself owned by Scout Partners, a New York investment firm.įounded in Southwest Harbor in 1928, Hinckley has a storied history and today continues to experience great innovation and growth. 1, Hinckley finalized its purchase of Morris, a move expected to leverage resources and brands on both sides. Now they’re two sides of the same company. In the mill shop, one man, wearing eye and ear protection, is power-sanding a door frame for a 42-footer.įor years, these two highly regarded companies have been competitors, although largely targeting different segments of the market-power and sail. Inside the vast carpentry shop, General Manager Pete Carroll showed off a wealth of beautifully crafted wooden doors, frames and other furnishings that will become part of the six sailboats now under construction. Elsewhere, folks in the prefabrication shop lay up decks and create finely joined wooden interiors.Ī quarter-mile down the road, equally talented employees are building luxury sailboats under the Morris Yachts brand. He crossed into another section, where skilled craftspeople worked on a half-dozen picnic boats, the company’s hottest product. That’s our flybridge 48, and there’s a 43. ![]() “That’s our 38 runabout, with a power convertible top. “This is a new Talaria 43, a couple of months away from completion,” said Chief Operating Officer Mike Arieta amid the noise of power tools, as he walked down a catwalk that bisects an enormous building and oversees numerous luxury powerboats, lined up bow to stern on each side. The Hinckley Company’s boatbuilding plant in Trenton was a hive of activity on a recent day, with 25 to 30 boats in different stages of production, from molding to sea trials. Grants and Scholarships Portal – Apply Here. ![]()
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