2009 Hinckley Picnic Boat 37 MKIII

A RARE WAY TO OWN ONE

Asking: $799,000 · 3-year lease with purchase option

Three years aboard, interest-free — then she’s yours

Donated to Maine Maritime Academy, “Incorrigible” is offered at $799,000, structured as a three-year lease with an option to purchase. In practical terms, you step aboard one of the most coveted boats in American yachting now, spread the cost across three seasons with no interest, and exercise the purchase option at the end of the three-year term — in effect, three years of interest-free financing on one of yachting’s blue-chip names. Your acquisition supports the Academy’s mission as well. Full lease and option terms are available on request.

THE VESSEL

The boat that created a category

When Hinckley launched the original Picnic Boat in 1994, it invented an entirely new class of yacht — the modern downeast daycruiser. Built by hand in Maine to the most exacting standards in the industry, the Picnic Boat became the most recognizable and coveted boat of its kind in America. The 37 MKIII is the fully evolved expression of that idea.

This is hull No. 2 of the MKIII — a first-year example of the generation that gave the Picnic Boat twin engines, a new deeper-vee hull, and a roomier, more refined layout while keeping the timeless lines intact. Beneath the satin-varnished cherry and varnished-teak soles sits Hinckley’s DualGuard composite hull: a Kevlar and E-glass outer skin over a carbon-fiber inner skin and balsa core, built to 150% of the ISO offshore standard. And the propulsion — the heart of every Hinckley — is twin Hamilton waterjets: no props or shafts, a draft of just over two feet, and the patented JetStick. She will nose onto a beach, idle safely among swimmers, and pivot in her own length at the dock.