Yankee
Hinckley Pilot 35 - True Classic
Yankee is a beautifully maintained 1957 classic and a must see. Perfectly suited as a day sailor or for overnight jaunts to your favorite anchorage she will impress and attract attention wherever she goes. A beautiful example of Sparkman & Stephens prowess she is truly a sight to behold.
Yankee
Hinckley Pilot 35 - True Classic
Yankee is a beautifully maintained 1957 classic and a must see. Perfectly suited as a day sailor or for overnight jaunts to your favorite anchorage she will impress and attract attention wherever she goes. A beautiful example of Sparkman & Stephens prowess she is truly a sight to behold.
Over the years her owner has lovingly taken care of her and upgraded for modern sailing convenience.
Henry R. Hinckley & Co. of Southwest Harbor, Maine, has had some notable successes over the years, and this solid glass 35-footer ranks right up there with the best of them. She was built in several variations between 1963 and 1975.
Most remarkable for her beauty, this balanced, traditional-looking boat with a deeply curved sheer and plenty of overhang fore and aft has had a full life. Cruising widely, racing seriously, weekending and daysailing in most of the planet’s best sailing grounds, she embodies that “wholesome, dual purpose ideal” that many sailors put at the heart of the sport.
Hinckley has long been known to build boats well. Some owners have sailed their boats for 30 years or more, and when a Pilot comes on the used boat market today it’s not likely to stay there long.. Often the boats fetch prices in excess of $70,000.
Designed by Sparkman & Stephens when the firm was at its most dominant, the Pilot was the state of the boatbuilding art at the beginnings of the fiberglass era.
The Pilot is very good looking. If there’s a comment that echoes repeatedly from her owners it’s “everyone says she’s the prettiest boat in the harbor.” Her design team combined a boldly curved sheerline, drawn-out ends, a jaunty aft-raked transom, and a straight but not severe houseline into a traditionally eye-pleasing package. She comes from a bygone era and her looks suggest the good old days “when boats were boats.” She has some other timeless virtues, too and many owners and sailors in general appreciate her for her simplicity, integrity, and durability.
Performance
Conventional wisdom has it that fewer than one in ten sailboats today ever sees the race course. Such was not the case with the Hinckley Pilot. Block Island, Mackinaw, Monhegan, Annapolis-Newport, the Great Ocean Race Race— Pilots have been in them all and done well. They have also scored well or won championships in handicap series in San Francisco, Buzzards, and Biscayne Bays. Overall, the ratio of Pilot owners who report having raced their boats is much closer to one in three than one in ten.
One of the pillars of Sparkman & Stephens’ racing success has always been an emphasis on upwind performance. The Pilot 35 is no exception. Despite overlong spreaders and over-wide sheeting angles that were standard design elements in her era, she goes well to windward.
Exterior Improvements And Maintenance.
Yankee has had many years of improvements and maintenance over the years as follows;
- Hull is mahogany planks on oak frames. 1997 planking splines above the waterline, fared with 12 coats of primer and painted with 2 part epoxy paint.
- 2010 frames were spliced or sistered with new frames from midships to bow. (9 Planks replaced)
- Teak decks replaced and calked in 2005
- Toe rail restored and varnished
- Cabin sides refinished and varnished
- Interior refinished, painted and varnished
- All deck hardware refinished, chromed and or refinished.
Mast, Rigging And Canvas
- Mast completely reconditioned in 2004
- Pro Furl MK1 in boom furling system added in 2004
- Full batten Maniail
- Pro Furl headsail furling system
- North 110% Jib with UV Cover
- North 160% Genoa
- North Asymmetrical Spinnaker
- Full boat cover in Cadet Gray Sunbrella
- Summer Canvas
- Canvas covers for , Boom, Hatches, Cabin Sides, Winches.
- New Dodger and cockpit canvas in white
- Full cockpit cushions in Cadet Gray Sunbrella
Electrical
- 2 AGM house and 1 AGM engine start battery new in 2018
- Xantrex 20+ / 40+ Battery Charger
- Link 10 Battery Meter
- Bluesea UBS charger
- USF 32 flex Solar panel
- Raymarine 4000+ Auto helm and spare auto helm 2000
- Raymarine ST 60 Multi (wind speed & direction, Depth, Log, boat speed,
- Compass mounted to bulkhead
Deck And Anchor Gear
- Suncore Plowmaster 35 lbs polished Stainless Anchor
- Simpson Lawrence #1000 electric windless with remote
- 100 feet of chain and 200 feet of rode
- 2 - model 28 - 2 speed self tailing primary winches
- 3 - model 21 self tailing secondary winches
- Flo Jet 4300 automatic wash down pump
Engines
- 21 horse power Westerbek with 913 hours
- 20 gal bronze fuel tank
- New fuel pump 2017
- engine service included, New injectors, Heat exchanger cleaned, serviced and painted. Replaced impeller, oil filters and oil.
