Henry Boyd
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- Apr 24, 2007
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- Boat Info
- ‘09 Sabre 38 Hardtop Express “Serenity”
- Engines
- Volvo D6 w/IPS450 Pods
Hinkley makes superb power boats..........I never see a blow bote in my future:
Look at all the pages of photographs and there are a couple of videos as well:
http://www.hinckleyyachts.com/Jetboats/t48/t48_gallery.php
A couple of years ago I went on a tour of the Hinckley Boat works on a field trip with the New England Chapter of SNAME. We had a quarterly meeting at Maine Maritime, and that was the carrot to get everyone to drive to mid coast Maine. It was more than impressive. To me it is sort of a sad state of affairs. These boats are so beautiful and expensive, that some buyers will buy just to show it off, and others will buy them because they can, and not give a s__t how they treat it.
One of the guys in our local YC has a Picnic Boat. It is beautiful and really a sweet ride. It is very soft going through chop, very little rolling. The Hamilton jet drive is military grade and moves the boat right along. There is no single versus twin debate with this boat.
And Yes, the damn wood work is what gets me.
Henry