VUE Long Island

e North Fork of Long Island, the Hamptons' little sister that has grown up to be a stunner, has always had a relationship with the water. Fishing boats. Work boats. Sailboats. Families heading out for an aernoon on the Sound. But over the past decade, boating has become something more than a pastime. For many, it has become a lifestyle. As that lifestyle has grown, one name continues to stand apart. Hinckley. For nearly a century, the Hinckley name has represented the very best of American yacht building. Founded in 1928 by Henry Hinckley in Southwest Harbor, Maine, the company began not as a luxury brand, but as a boatyard servicing hardworking lobster boats and the yachts of summer residents along the Maine coast. It was a practical business built around crasmanship, durability, and an obsession with doing things correctly. at obsession became a reputation. By the 1950s and 1960s, Hinckley was helping redefine American yacht construction. e company became an early pioneer in fiberglass boatbuilding, most notably with the legendary Bermuda 40, a vessel many still consider one of the most beautiful sailboats ever built. Generations of sailors fell in love with the clean lines, seaworthiness, and understated elegance that became the company's signature. en came the boat that changed everything. The Hinckley Picnic Boat wasn't simply another model. It became an entirely new category of boat. Introduced in the mid-1990s, it took the timeless lines of a classic Maine lobster boat and paired them with modern engineering, effortless handling, and the kind of fit and finish usually reserved for much larger yachts. It was elegant without being precious, luxurious without being ostentatious, and practical enough to be used almost every weekend. Owners quickly discovered something unexpected. It wasn't a boat you admired from the dock; it was a boat you actually used. V U E H A M P TO N S . C O M 6 9

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