Kotchka, above, shows her classic lines while sailing downwind. J and Marci Kolb were attracted by her reasonable price, when compared with the Hinckley Bermuda 40 and Pilot 35. The revised foredeck with a repositioned windlass layout, on facing page.

Their Hinckley 38 dreamboat came with a multi-year project list Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 Nixon was in the oval office, the Vietnam War was dividing the country, and up in quiet Southwest Harbor, Maine,...