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15404Maine Yard Building Sixty-Foot Yachts
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • The New York Times
  • 1950-02-11
The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana.
Maine Yard Building Sixty-Foot Yachts
Item:
  • 15404   
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Publisher:
  • The New York Times
Date:
  • 1950-02-11
Description:
The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana. [show more]
15405Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1951
Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
Item:
  • 15405   
Type:
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Date:
  • 1951
Source:
  • David Vieira
Description:
Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950.
15456Bounder II
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1956-01-18
Bounder II
Item:
  • 15456   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Creator:
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
Date:
  • 1956-01-18
Source:
  • W.H. Ballard Collection
15500Hinckley at the New York Boat Show - 1959
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1959
The Henry R. Hinckley Company booth at the 1959 New York Boat Show. There are also photos of the Maine Boat Builders 7 Repairers Association.
Hinckley at the New York Boat Show - 1959
Item:
  • 15500   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Date:
  • 1959
Source:
  • Hank Hinckley Collection
Description:
The Henry R. Hinckley Company booth at the 1959 New York Boat Show. There are also photos of the Maine Boat Builders 7 Repairers Association.