1976 Hinckley 50 Sou'wester

GRACE’s interior is characteristic of Hinckley’s unique blend of classic elegance and seagoing function. Her interior is constructed with satin varnished ash bulkheads and panels with varnished teak trim. The cabin sole is solid teak and holly. The headliner is painted white and trimmed with mahogany. Living spaces are open, with handholds well placed for movement about the cabin in a seaway. Headroom is maximized in the salon, master stateroom and bunk room, creating a bright and comfortable interior. Her three-stateroom layout will accommodate seven with the addition of an excellent sea berth in the main salon. Beautiful framed sailing prints are located throughout combining with rugs, throw pillows, curtains, and other soft goods to create a tasteful accommodation.

The companionway ladder hinges to access the generator. The engine is mounted below the salon sole with excellent top access. Other removable cabin sole panels access auxiliary equipment and storage.

• White opaque companionway slider with varnished teak trim
• Drop in companionway washboards and screens

The private forward stateroom has a large v-berth with infill cushion. A large overhead hatch creates a space that is well ventilated and very bright. At the forward end of the berth there is a large locker with access to finished storage space with shelves and the chain locker. The hull sides are lined with mahogany battens. Shelves and lockers with sliding doors are located above the berth to port and starboard. There are reading lamps over the berth as well as another overhead light aft in the entry way to the cabin. Below the berth, there are four drawers plus a large top opening storage space with access to the bow thruster. Aft and to starboard, there is a mirrored locker with a series of three drawers and a locker below. Just aft is a cedar-lined hanging locker.

• Custom fitted sheets
• Controls for air conditioning/heat
• 12V outlet
• CO alarm
• Duplex 120V outlet

The starboard passageway cabin is just aft of the forward stateroom. The two bunks make excellent sea berths. There are varnished mahogany battens on the hull sides. Outboard of the lower berth, storage is available in sliding door lockers. There is large cedar-lined hanging locker forward. Two reading lamps and an overhead dome light add to the natural light provided by a fixed port and overhead hatch. A Dorade vent also provides ventilation.

• Air conditioning/heating vent
• 110V Duplet outlet
• Lee cloth for upper berth

The master stateroom is located to port. A pullman style berth is aft and outboard. There are two reading lamps over the head of the berth and two overhead dome lights. The hull side is lined with varnished Mahogany battens. Cabinets with sliding doors run the length of the berth along the hull side. Storage for clothing is well organized, with six large drawers below the berth and a tall cedar-lined hanging locker forward. Three hooks for foul weather gear are located on the bulkhead at the forward inboard end of the stateroom. Light and ventilation are provided by a fixed port and a medium sized hatch. A dorade vent also provides ventilation.

• Weems & Plath chronometer on bulkhead
• 110V duplex outlet
• Air conitioniong vent
• Lee cloth
• Custom fitted sheets

The forward head can be accessed either privately from the master stateroom or via a door in passageway. The shower with teak grating, sump pump, and handheld nozzle is integral to this space. The Vacuflush head is located outboard. Outboard of the head is a huge locker with a sliding door and shelf. An L-shaped countertop runs along the forward end of the compartment and outboard along the hull side. Two storage bins are below the counter. There are two towel bar/handrails on the aft bulkhead. The stainless steel sink is located inboard with a Scandvik pull out sprayer nozzle for showering. Above the sink is a wood trimmed mirror an two lights. There is an additional locker with shelves below the sink.

• 12V Vacuflush head
• Tankwatch holding tank monitor
• Scandvik pull out sink/shower nozzle
• Shower drain overboard pump
• 110V duplex outlet
• Deck prism
• Cowl vent

The day head is located just forward of the salon to starboard. A shower is integral to the space and a teak grate covers the sole. The Scandvick faucet is fitted with a pullout spray nozzle and hose for showering. The manual flush head is outboard. Outboard of the head is a large locker with shelves. There is a smaller locker below. A long counter runs the length of the compartment along the aft bulkhead. The sink is located at the inboard end of this counter. A mirrored medicine cabinet with shelves is located above. Storage space is available in a locker below the sink as well as a hinged locker below the counter outboard of the sink. There is a towel rack on the forward bulkhead.

• Manual Raritan flush head (salt or freshwater flush)
• Shower overboard drain pump
• 110V duplex GFCI outlet
• Opening port

Two steps lead up to GRACE’s spacious main salon. Five fixed windows provide fantastic light and visibility. To starboard is a comfortable L-shaped settee. An ash dining table is located off the centerline to port. The table is mounted on dual pedestals and has two drawers below/inboard and removable fiddles on each side. Outboard of the settee along the port side, there are two large sliding door lockers. There are three dome lights above the settee and two reading lights on the main bulkhead. Weems and Plath chronometer, barmoter and thermometer/hydrometer are mounted up high on the main bulkhead. Handholds run to port and starboard along the passageway through the salon forward to the forward cabins.

• Air conditioning/heat controls
• 110V Duplex outlet

The galley is located on the starboard side of the salon. The L-shaped counter provides excellent workspace. At the forward end of the galley is a tall locker with storage for wine bottles, pots and pans. Aft of the locker is the large Shipmate three-burner stove and oven. The stove is gimbaled and is contained in an easy to clean enclosure lined in stainless. There is a stainless crash bar at the inboard end of the stove with hooks for a galley belt. Below the stove is a small locker. There is a single lever faucet and spray nozzle at a stainless-steel double sink. There are four drawers and a large locker with shelves below. Outboard of the counter along the hull side, there is a large locker with dish storage, two drawers, and two other lockers with shelves. Aft of the sink is the large top opening fridge with divided storage arrangements. A microwave oven is set into the bulkhead at the aft end of the counter.. Above on the aft end of the cabin trunk is a rack with space for six Hinckley glasses and a binocular rack. Four lights over the galley counter provide excellent illumination. A red light is fitted for night watch.

• Adler Barber 12V refrigerator and freezer
• Digital remote reading thermometer for fridge and freezer
• GE Microwave oven
• (2) 110V Duplex GFCI outlets
• Freshwater drinking filter
• Trident gas solenoid and alarm
• CO alarm
• Weems & Plath gimalled kerosene yacht lamp
• Dust bin/grating below galley sole

The navigation station is to port of the companionway. The L-shaped chart table is a great workspace. A white leather swivel chair provides a comfortable seat, whether facing outboard toward the electronics at the nav station or forward at the salon table. There is excellent storage at the nav station – with a hinged lift top chart drawer and locker with sliding doors and shelves below the counter aft. Three overhead dimming spot lights and a red/white dome light provide enough illumination for serious study of nautical charts at night. Outboard in a cabinet along the hull side navigation and communications electronics. At the inboard end near the companionway is a small bookshelf and binocular holder. A Weems & Plath tide clock is mounted on the aft end of the cabin trunk above. Additional storage for the ditch bag and other items is on a shelf below the chart table.

Headroom measures 6’6” headroom in main salon and 7’ plus headroom in portions of bunk room and master stateroom.

GRACE has a one-piece fiberglass hull. The deck, deckhouse and cockpit are molded in one piece with integral fiberglass stiffeners and bolted and fiberglassed to the hull on a six inch flange. The lead keel is fastened externally with stainless steel bolts.  There is a cast bronze 500 lb foil shaped centerboard using the standard Hinckley type worm lift. GRACE has a forest green Awlgrip-painted hull with a gold leaf Hinckley cove stripe white boot stripe. The bottom is painted with white antifouling. Canvas is beige. There are covers for the dorade boxes, handrails, hatches, winches. All the exterior brightwork has been maintained and is immaculate. Combine this with recently painted masts and GRACE’s exterior clearly meets the Hinckley standard.

GRACE’s cockpit is protected by a dodger and wide coamings. Varnished teak coaming seat backs house two storage cuddies on each side. A removable canvas bimini top extends from the dodger to the mizzen shrouds. A varnished teak “flip up” helm seat is secured to the mizzen mast with bronze hardware. A teak footrest hinges up from the cockpit well. The cockpit sole is inlayed with teak and rubber. The engine gage panel is recess-mounted in the bridgedeck and visible from the helm. Two huge lockers are on either side of the cockpit, below the gasketed and guttered seats. Another deck locker is aft of the mizzen mast and accessed through a varnished teak hatch.

• Stainless steel-capped teak rub rail
• Oyster white deck and house with Moondust non-skid
• Stainless steel bow pulpit and stern pushpit
• 27” High white plastic coated liflines with midships boarding gates
• Varnished teak toe rails, eyebrow trim, hatches, and cockpit coamings
• Varnished teak rollers on forward lower and cap shrouds
• Varnished teak handrails on cabinetop
• Varnished teak flagstaff
• (2) 12” Stainless steel cowl vents outboard of mast with varnished teak dorade boxes and high stainless steel protection bars (double as mast granny bars)
• (3) 6” Stainless steel cowl vents on varnished teak dorade boxes
• Toast Sunbrella covers for all dorade boxes
• 32” x 32” opening varnished teak foredeck hatch with white plexiglass top
• (2) 20” x 20” opening varnished teak cabintop hatches with white plexiglass top
• Varnished teak stern locker hatch with Toast Sunbrella cover
• Vanished teak propane locker and insulated deck box just aft of mizzen mast with Toast Sunbrella cover
• White vinyl with green piping 2” thick cockpit cushions
• Varnished teak dropleaf pedestal-mounted cockpit table
• Varnish teak cup holder on pedestal
• Double stainless-steel bow rollers atop cast stemhead fitting on bow
• Suncor 60 lb. stainless steel plow anchor
• 250 ft of 3/8” high tensile galvanized chain and 100’ of 1” plaited line rode
• Ideal 12V vertical capstan, chrome bronze anchor windlass with chain and line gypsy head controlled by up and down deck foot switches
• Danforth style secondary anchor with rode
• Washdown hose bib on bow
• Toast Sunbrella covers for steering wheel, pedestal, cabintop handrails, dorade boxes, stern locker hatch, and propane/deck ice box hatch
• White vinyl with green piping cockpit cushions
• (5) Cylindrical fenders with dark green Maine Point fleece covers
• (4) Chromed bronze 12” mooring cleats on bow and stern
• (2) Chromed bronze 10” mooring cleats midships for spring lines
• (2) Closed chocks inset into toe rail midships for spring lines
• (2) Open chocks in cast stemhead fitting on bow
• (2) Chromed cast bronze chocks atop toe rail on stern quarters
• Ample inventory of dock and mooring lines
• Stainless steel folding swim ladder with teak steps

GRACE is a Stowaway Yawl and fitted with electric in-mast mainsail furling and manual in mast mizzen furling. The headstay furling line is lead aft to an electric self-tailing winch in the cockpit. This easily managed rig provide flexibility for ocean voyaging, coastal and day sailing. All hardware is top quality and oversized. Deck hardware, sails, and running rigging have been updated to take advantage of technical and material advances while maintaining the traditional Hinckley aesthetics. 

• White LPU, single spreader, keel-stepped Hood Stowaway main mast with electric/hydraulic furler
• Furling control button and in/out switch in cockpit
• White LPU, boom with mainsail clew ball bearing car and 4:1 topping lift
• White LPU, single spreader Hood Stowaway mizzen mast with manual in-mast furling
• White LPU, mizzen boom
• Running backstay for mizzen mast with 4:1 Schaefer block and tackle and spectra pennant
• Standing rigging is 1x19 stainless steel with swaged ends (last replaced in 2018)
• Harken Mk III furler on headstay with furling line led aft to electric self tailing winch in cockpit
• 4:1 Harken Big Boat series mainsheet traveller
• 6:1 Mainsheet with stainless-steel checked Harken blocks
• Mast-mounted carbon whisker pole with Harken track and inboard end control system
• Toast Sunbrella whisker pole cover
• Anderson 30 CST and Lewmar 40 CST on main mast
• (3) Spinlock rope clutches on main mast
• (4) Cleat on main mast
• Winch handle holder on front of main mast
• Harken 16 CST and (2) Barient 10 winches on mizzen mast
• Spinlock rope clutch and (4) cleats on mizzen mast
• 3:1 Lewmar mizzen sheet let to winch on mizzen mast
• (4) Spinlock rope clutches on cabintop for mainsheet, mainsail outhaul, and traveller control lines
• (2) Lewmar 44 CST winches on cabintop outboard of companionway
• (2) Barient 35 self-tailing, two speed primary winches on cockpit coaming -fwd
• (3) Barient 28 self-tailing two speed electric winches on cockpit coaming – aft
• (4) Lewmar genoa lead cars on toe-rail mounted “T” track
• (4) Foot blocks on cockpit coaming
• Downs Sails – Hydranet main sail
• Downs Sails Hydranet mizzen sail
• Downs Sails jib
• Sperry Sails mizzen staysail
• Asymmetric spinnaker with control sock
• Spare mains sail and 135% genoa

• 1988 Ford Lehman 135 hp 6 cylinder diesel engine (3050 approx hours)
• Noland Engineering RS11 Canbus engine data converter to display engine data on Garmin electronics
• Engine panel with tachometer, hour meter, water temperature, oil pressure, amps, and transmission oil pressure
• 12V engine oil change pump
• Stainless steel prop shaft with stuffing box
• Three blade Max Prop
• Sidepower tunnel-mounted bow thruster
• Elk hide-covered stainless steel steering wheel on Yacht Specialties pedestal with dual lever throttle and gear shift levers
• Spectra Catalina 340Z 14 gph watermaker
• (3) Propane tanks with Trident solenoid/gas alarm
• (2) CMD-4MR carbon monoxide detector alarms
• H/C Pressure Water
• Engine/shorepower/genset heated water tank
• 12,000 btu and 5,000 btu air conditioning/heat
• Jabsco freshwater pressure pump
• Jabsco shower drain pumps
• Saltwater washdown pump
• Jabsco high capacity 12V bilge pump
• Aqualarm bilge pump counter
• High bilgewater alarm
• High capacity Whale Gusher Titan manual bilge pump below cabin sole
• Scankvik hot/cold freshwater cockpit shower

• 12 Volt DC/120 Volt AC and breaker panels with analog DC volts and AC volts and ammeter
• Onan model 8MDKDJ 8kw 120VAC diesel generator (915 hours)
• Marinco 50 amp and 30 amp shore power inlets
• 12V engine and genset starting battery
• (2) 8D Lifeline AGM batteries
• (2) 105 amp alternators on main engine with Balmar MC-612 smart regulator
• GoPower 3000 watt inverter with remote control panel
• 80 amp Charles battery charger
• Cruising Equipment Amp-hours+2 battery monitor
• 30 amp shorepower cord
• 50 amp shorepower cord

• (2) White with green piping horseshoe buoys hung in stern rail mounts
• Lifesling 2 man overboard retrieval system in white rail mounted bag
• Jon Buoy man overboard module in stern rail case (next service due 11/25)
• Forespar man overboard pole on mizzen shroud holder
• Pull down emergency boarding ladder on port quarter
• Aluminum emergency tiller
• Full complement of dry chemical extinguishers
• CO2 fire extinguisher at companionway
• Fire blanket in galley
• (2) Carbon monoxide detectors
• Stern rail-mounted fishing rod holder

The company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.

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