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Design 1219 Pilot 35

We have a document written by Roderick Stephens, Jr. entitled History of the Pilot 35 Design. Best to let him tell the story.

The Sparkman & Stephens Pilot, our design #539, was one of our first yacht designs prepared after the conclusion of World War II. The first boats were constructed in wood by Fisher Boatworks in Detroit, Michigan. When Fisher Boatworks terminated their operation, the project was taken up by Thomas Knutson Shipbuilding Co. in Huntington, Long Island, New York.

In 1955, at the request of Henry R. Hinckley, a "new Pilot" was the subject of our design #1219. Henry R. Hinckley built 8 of these Pilots, then known as the Pilot 35 (or Hinckley Pilot 35), in wood. Most of these were sloops, only one a yawl.

In 1962, again at the request of Henry R. Hinckley who had begun building in fiberglass, the Pilot design was revised and became our design #1727 (the number stamped on all of the fiberglass Hinckley Pilot 35 nameplates). It was this design that became known as the Hinckley Pilot 35 built exclusively by Henry R. Hinckley & Company. Of the 117 fiberglass Pilots built, 25 were yawls.

In later years, a slightly shorter rigged version was licensed to be built in Chile and became known as the "Chilean Pilot". We believe that 12 of these boats were built.


Here are the plans.