Hacker Boat Company, the New York-based builder behind the famed Hacker-Craft brand of mahogany boats, has delivered a tender to the owner of Odessa II.
Measuring 33 feet (10.06 meters), including the swim platform, the Hacker-Craft for Odessa II reflects an all-new design for the American company. Rather than the hull matching the tones of the topsides, Odessa II’s tender has a painted hull. The Hacker-Craft tender still employs rich mahogany for the deck and okume for the hull and topsides. Fiberglass is also employed for the latter components.
The Hacker-Craft tender, which has “Odessa II” on her transom in gold lettering, has a beam of 9’3” (2.8 meters) and a draft of 2 feet (0.61 meters). She’s a two-cockpit design, with the helm in the aft cockpit. Two crewmembers can be seated there. Guests get the forward, more spacious cockpit for their use. The builder says the Hacker-Craft tender is capable of a 44-mph top speed, powered by twin Yanmar diesels.
George Badcock, Hacker Boat Company’s president and CEO, sees a new avenue for the company’s custom boats. “We are now working on potential tenders for several other yachts, and look forward to growing our tender business,” he says.
Hacker Boat Company won’t have to grow that business from scratch. If you are familiar with the biggest megayachts around, recall that there is already a Hacker-Craft tender carried aboard Christina O. Talitha had one on deck for many years as well. And, given the desire for something distinct—and often custom—Hacker-Craft fits the bill. To put things into perspective, every Hacker-Craft is hand-carved and shaped. It requires 2,200 man-hours to build one Hacker-Craft Runabout (24 to 35 feet) and 2,500 to 2,700 man-hours to build a Sport model. Either way, it’s about six to eight months, so customization could easily take a few weeks or even months longer, depending on the complexity.
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