wood/glass Hinckley?

[TimH]

http://newimages.yachtworld.com/6/3/7/0/1/637012_1_thumb.jpg

anyone ever seen a Hinckley Sou'wester with a wood hull but glass deck? Must be something somebody did to it.

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[johnw]

They were built that way. The idea was, the deck is the hardest problem on a wood boat, and if you can have one that doesn't leak, it's easier to keep the hull from rotting. Of course, it's easier still if the hull is glass...

[Doug Wood]

Think that's a photo of "Squally", which I think may still be on the hard here in Maine. It's a Sou'wester 34 and no, they were not originally built with fiberglass decks. The Sou'wester 34's were orig. built in the 40's and 50's. If that's Squally, her glass deck and house were installed by Hinckley some years back. I think the deck was actually from a Pilot 35.

[johnw]

The early 34s were not built with glass decks. Later ones were. Hinkly Pilots had glass hulls and decks.

[Bayboat]

My Hinckley Sou'wester 34 was launched in 1947 with canvas decks over plywood. In 1988 I stripped the paint from the original decks (heat gun and scraper) and re-painted. The canvas was in very good condition.

[Dale Genther]

Several years ago I saw a Hinckley with glass deck and wood hull for sale at Hartge's (sp?) on the West River in the Chesapeake. It was about 34 ft and was supposedly built that way by Hinckley. Also there is a rumor of one of the first Burmuda 40s being in the Rock Hall, MD area. It is alleged to have a glass hull and wood deck/cabin. I saw the boat from a distance and it is a Hinckley with the Burmuda hull form. It has teak decks, but I couldn't get close enough to confirm the wood cabin/deck story.

[ 12-30-2003, 09:39 AM: Message edited by: Dale Genther ]

[Noah]

I will take that Bermuda 40 please...Dale, get to work...

I still don't really get the idea of a wooden hull and a fiberglass deck. To me I want it the other way around. I like sitting and looking at wood, but I don't like to worry about poping off a garboard, or what condition my stem is in...Though a shitty fiberglass hull ain't no good either.

Here is one more to my liking...though it sounded like the deck needed a bunch of work...

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/uk/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp?currency=EUR&units=Meters&checked_boats=1140604&