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 ...

In 1985, Chris Deegan was hired out of Penn State as a nuclear submarine cost estimator by the Naval Sea Systems Command and retired nearly 28 years later as the Executive Director of PEO Integrated ...

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 ...

Brunswick Corp. is expanding its partnership with Arkema to develop a fully recyclable fiberglass boat that integrates Arkema’s Elium liquid thermoplastic resin on all the vessel’s composite parts, ...

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 ...

A ceremony was held Monday morning to announce boat manufacturer Caymas Boats is building a new plant in Cheatham County. Caymas Boats is investing more than $30 million to build the plant on Highway ...

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 ...

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 ...