The Hinckley Company Opens Offices in Michigan and Monaco

Pine Trees in Monaco? Lobsters in Lake Michigan?
by Ed Osgood, Vice President, Sales

During the last few months, The Hinckley Company has been hard at work expanding our horizons and transplanting our New England traditions to different locations.

We are pleased to announce that The Hinckley Company has selected Edmiston & Company of London and Monaco to represent us in Europe. Edmiston & Company is a well respected, international yacht brokerage and charter firm, and we are excited to be associated with Nick Edmiston and his crew. Chris Craven, based in Monaco, spent the better part of last fall working with us at the US boat shows, followed by weeks of downeast indoctrination in Southwest Harbor and at our Jet Boat shops in Trenton, Maine. Chris has hands-on experience in building, maintaining and operating the Hinckley Jet Boat line. While in Trenton, he worked in the composite shop laying up hulls and then moved on to our Picnic Boat, T40 and T44 boat-building operations. Chris joined Edmiston & Company after a successful eight-year career as a captain in the Welsh Calvary Regiment and one year in the French Foreign Legion. We are very happy to have Chris working for us in Europe. Our Picnic Boat demonstrator is presently berthed in Monaco, soon to be joined by our new T-29 C. If you are traveling in the South of France or cruising in the Mediterranean this summer, please check in with Chris.

Planning a cruise to the northern Lake Michigan this summer? Be sure to stop in at Bay Harbor and say hello to Eric Roos at our new sales office. We will be open this spring equipped with a T44 and a T29 at the dock for sea trials. Eric attended teh Chicago and Detroit boat shows this winter and the response to the Picnic Boat was very exciting. Before joining The Hinckley Company two years ago, Eric was the captain of Windcrest, Hull 2 of Hinckley 70.

Hinckley Florida is in full swing. Our new yard in Stuart is dishing up a mix of Southern hospitality and Yankee boat service know-how, and our sales office in Palm Beach is very busy with the T29, Picnic Boat, T40, and T44 berthed across the street for sea trials. Eric Champlin, who opened our Florida office last year, has been joined by Mike Silverman and, of course, Bob Hinckley continues to provide a valuable senior presence during the winter selling season. Please make a point to stop off and see our yard in Stuart and our new office in Palm Beach.

Jim Wetherald and Chris Fairfax in Ports-mouth, Rhode Island, and Phil Bennett, Steve Keiser, Bob Pooler, Bob Hinckley, and John Corea in Southwest Harbor, Maine, are getting ready for the summer season and the great cruising that New England is so famous for. Here's to fresh winds and a fair current!