Category: Hinckley

Words fail me….

Sometimes it’s about the words. But more often it’s all about the pix. Especially these pix, taken just this week in Rotterdam. Our 42-knot Zeelander 55 (#7) ships out on a freighter on July 7th. You will have your opportunity to see (and sea trial) her at our Norwalk CT docks on the afternoon of […]

Weapon of Choice

I. ‘TIS THE SEASON: Long ago and far away I used to work a dozen or more boat shows a year, all around planet earth. That, plus monthly trips to Istanbul, left me in a near-constant state of jet lag. It all came back to me when, preparing for the coming boat show season, I […]

The Gorilla in the Room

Two wonderful book recommendations this week, loyal readers. Their common theme is … genius! This first book jumped out at me from a glowing review in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year: The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Piers Bizony. This is a stunning coffee table book, ingeniously packaged in its own […]

You snooze, you lose!

I. A Very Rare Opportunity –  I used to be known for a particular phrase in this biz (and no, not launch a flare, which I still delight in using). This other phrase had travelled far enough around that boaters I’d never met would quote it to me at boat shows: You snooze, you lose! […]

I have a haddock (II)

I. Headache-free Ownership – Yes, I’m opening this post the same way I closed the last one. If you laughed last week, get ready to laugh some more: Why, you may ask,  all this talk about headaches in what is supposed to be a yachting blog? A bunch of years ago I sold a dealer […]

I have a haddock!

I. Our Last Event –  Last weekend’s Hinckley Experience Event in Westchester was much fun, as these pix will attest. What is it about fine yachts that they bring out the nicest people?   The fine little yacht at the dock in Rye is the Hinckley Talaria 29R, and this was my first opportunity to […]

You know how to whistle, don’t you?

I. Brains and Beauty – Flipping through the channels the other night, this scene stopped me as just as firmly in my tracks as the very first time I saw it: Lauren Bacall was nineteen years old here, in her first movie. Her brains and beauty knocked Bogart for a complete loop, both in the […]

From Yacht to Ship

I. Running the Race –  Our Hinckley Experience event in Sag Harbor last weekend was much fun, but I will admit I worked my ass off!  When it was over I was pleased to have time to play – by taking our Talaria 34R from Sag Harbor to Hinckley’s yard in Portsmouth, RI. That’s 56 […]

The Real Deal

So this clip from 1933 – to me one of the funniest in film history – playfully illustrates the difference between the real deal, and that which is not quite. I see this in the boat biz all the time. Last week I wrote about fun times at yacht builder Happy Hours. They are fun, […]

Why a duck?

“Why a duck?” asks Chico. Or, more to the point:  Why a Hinckley? Well, here’s one [lengthy] answer: When you get a bunch of builders together at happy hour, sooner or later the conversations turns to this: “What should we build, and how should we build it?” It can be a tough call. A builder […]