[leilani]

How about this one to add to your fleet? I know, I know, it's not a Hinckley. But you could get it delivered out to Maine & they could make it a Hinckley!

[Ready4Freddy]

Hey leilani!! LOL, oh boy, a wooden boat... and gas powered, to boot... Wheeler Shipyards built a lot of boats at their yard in Whitestone, NY (East River on Long Island, near Little Neck), many of them saw service in WWII at D-Day. Coast Guard used thm to patrol the NY area during, for years after, the war.

I would love to have an old wooden Chris Chraft runabout for errands on Traverse Bay, but they sure are a lot of work. I know a guy who lives near Jacksonville, FL (an long-time squeeze of mine pilots his plane for him), he's actually up the St Johns River a few miles from town. The St Johns has a huge fleet of wooden Chris Crafts, Huckabys, etc that have been restored to mint condition for travel to & from town. Serious bucks involved in keeping a wooden boat.

[Ready4Freddy]

Check this out:

The 3 boats in the foreground are 50's-60's Chris Chrafts, the distinctive tumblehome on the stern quarters is a dead giveaway.