The Hinckley Co.’s first fiberglass yacht, a Bermuda 40 sailboat, seen here in 1959. PHOTO / COURTESY THE HINCKLEY CO. When the Hinckley Co. was founded, in 1928 in Southwest Harbor, owner Henry ...

Ralph Mitchell never took much time to consider his career path. As a young man right out of high school, his father was the sales manager for a large boat manufacturer in Minnesota, so it just seemed ...

At half the price and significantly less maintenance, Roger O'Neill's wooden boat-fiberglass hull hybrid creates a luxury cruiser with the perks of recycling. O'Neill Craft started as a hobby so that ...

Cape Fear Community College will offer two new programs, surgical technology and fiberglass boat building, for students in the fall. The programs were started after businesses suggested the two ...

DARTMOUTH — The last of Dartmouth's boat-building firms is alive and well at the end of Shipyard Lane, overlooking Padanaram Harbor. Well-known for five decades of producing a line of classic catboats ...

Just a half-century ago, wood was the main component for boatbuilding. As fiberglass became the material of choice, wooden boats turned into a small, niche for aficionados who love the look and feel ...

When I first stepped into the Maverick Boat Group’s P2 factory in Fort Pierce, Florida, the first thing I noticed was what was missing. In most other boatbuilding facilities I have visited, I’ve been ...

Holland’s boat-building heritage is highlighted in a new book by Geoffrey Reynolds, who is the Mary Riepma Ross Director of the Joint Archives of Holland at Hope College. “Boats Made in Holland: A ...

Select a boat year and model below to get a valuation. Crawford Boat Building is a Massachusetts marine company constructing small vessels. Dedicated to building a modest fiberglass vessel since 1976, ...

The boatbuilding firm Millennium Marine has had mostly success since it moved from New Brunswick to Eastport a year ago — so much so, that it plans to add 20 employees. Millennium Marine manufactures ...