Hinckley Yachts

Hinckley Yachts

Hinckley Yachts is a builder of luxury sailing yachts and jet-powered picnic boats founded in 1928 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. It built the Bermuda 40, one of the first fiberglass sailing yachts, from a Bill Tripp design, from 1959 to 1991. The B40 is still noted as a sturdy, sea-kindly and beautiful yachtcite web
url=http://www.hinckleyyachts.com/employment/about_us2.html
title=The Hinckley Company History
publisher=Hinckley Yachts
accessdate=2008-09-02
] cite magazine
url=http://www.spinsheet.com/useddisp.asp?rk=5
title=Used Boat Review: Hinckley Bermuda 40
author=Jack Horner
work=Spin Sheet Magazine
date=1998-05
accessdate=2008-09-02
] Its most recent sailing design, the DS42, was nominated one of the best boats of 2005 by Sail Magazine for its innovative use of roller furling in a carbon-fiber mast.citation
work=Sail Magazine
title=New Boats: Bright Ideas
date=2004-12
author=BILL SPRINGER
accessdate=2008-09-02
url=http://www.sailmag.com/boatreviews/1204bestboats.pdf
] Hinckley has been noted as "a pioneer in hull construction, setting new standards for the marine industry in terms of stiffness, strength and impact resistance", using computer-aided design to optimize interior designs.cite web
url=http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/about_us/success/case_study.cfm?ComponentTemplate=1481&Component=30184
title=Customer Case Studies; The Hinckley Company
work=Inside Siemens PLM Software
publisher=Siemens
accessdate=2008-08-02
] . The company has also been noted for its use of enterprise resource planning software to better enable its skilled craftsmen to customize its high-end boats.cite magazine
url=http://www.themanufacturer.com/us/profile/3487/Hinckley_Yachts
title=Manufacturing in Action: Hinckley Yachts, Steady as the sea
work=The Maufacturer US
date=2005-06
accessdate=2008-09-02
]

Recently, Hinckley donated $3,000 in materials, the use of its facilities, and the time of its carpenters, to create a new bedroom/playroom for the ailing child of one of its employees.cite magazine
url=http://www.cruisingworld.com/under-way/2002-boty-archive/ailing-child-steals-hinckley-hearts-1000059891.html
title=Ailing Child Steals Hinckley Hearts
author=Kitty Martin
Work=Cruising World
Publisher=Bonnier
date=2008-04
accessdate=2008-09-02
]

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