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For almost thirty years, John M. Pratt was a service manager at The Hinckley Company in Southwest Harbor, ME.  During the 1980s and 1990s, John supervised several upgrade/retoration projects on our TECUMSEH (#3558, now CAPER). THC's bean counters dismissed John (and others representing an aggregate of 90 years experience) this past January.  Happily, John has relocated as Service Manager at Atlantic Boat Co.. He is available to any Pilot owners who wish to discuss service and/or restoration…

See the link to Sparkman & Stephens Association website for an interesting story of an Argentinean built Pilot designed by S&S.  For those interested, I understand this beauty may be on the market.

http://www.s-and-s-association.org/

Hinckley Owners Rendezvous, July 13-15 Nantucket:

Truly one of New England's premier boating destinations Nantucket's charm is unique.  Owners will dock at the Boat Basin, enjoy cocktails at the beautiful Great Harbor Yacht Club Friday evening, have dinner at The White Elephant Saturday, and have some Hinckley-style fun all weekend.

To register or to learn more, please e-mail…

We have the makings of an HPA cruise which will take place from July 28th - August 2nd in the mid-coast region of Maine. Glory and other Pilots will be departing from Round Pond, ME harbor on Saturday, July 28th. Those interested in participating, should contact Buzz.

has anyone removed the sliding panels covering the galley cubbies?  Mine are very tight and need loosening, but I do not readily see how to remove them.  Any ideas?  Thanks, Bill

As you know, one goal of our site is to locate and connect with all current Hinckley Pilot 35 owners and to update the master list from the Danilek’s 1984 book, “Pilot 35.”   Please take a moment and review our Pilot Names page and send any updates you might have to us at hinckleypilot35@gmail.com.  Thanks! We look forward to hearing from you.

Back in '77 Frederique and I bought a 1966 Pilot, originally "Sequence", renamed her "Willow" and owned her for about 14 years.  We were young and an 11-year-old boat seemed antique. For every hour spent sailing a few more were spent maintaining and upgrading, and they were joyful hours and years.

Fast forward another 20 years, making us 34 years older than buying Willow days, looking around at daysailers, maybe a small cruiser, and we discovered the most elegant 35-footer…

CYGNUS recently provided information to help us update our Pilot Name list for the Chilean Pilots.  He has an interesting blogspot http://yate-cygnus.blogspot.com that contains news, historical information, and pictures of the the Chilean Pilots.

I am going to remove my coamings this fall to refinish and re-bed them.  It seems that no matter how well I varnish them water sneaks in from behind and lifts the varnish on the edges.  I am planning to strip, sand and seal with penetrating epoxy, then varnish.  Has anyone done this?  I worry about damaging them after been in place for almost 45 years.  If you have experience with this I would be very interested in your story.

Thanks,

Michael

Willow and Audra just completed his year's USS Constellation Cup in Baltimore in what has become somewhat of a match race series. The series is now split with one win each. Audra and Willow placed 3rd and 4th in the Full Keel class and 4th and 5th overall in the combined Full Keel and Fin Keel Pursuit race.   With winds gusting close to 40 mph the fin keel boats didn't have much of a chance against their more traditional sisters. Willow had been running second when she suffered her second…

Hi....

Cygnus have Blog in Google....

http://yate-cygnus.blogspot.com/

Best Regards.

Cygnus

Hi, can you help me.

I'm looking for some accessories, mainsail and genoa for my Pilot.

I have some doubts, because different versions of PILOT appear on web sites, these are:

HINCKLEY 35 PILOT…