Hacker Craft
 

WOW! Stopped by their new showroom in Dania FL.
These boats are awesome. If you like speedboats it's a must see.
www.hackerboat.com

Is that what's next Steve?

LOOOOOVE those woodies. Hacker Crafts are sick. I'm in on this one!

I got the chance to check out Stan Craft at Desert Storm a few years back. Really nice too.

http://www.stancraftboats.com/styles

II got a tour of the Hacker factory a few years back while travelling in NY. Incredible old school craftsmanship. Would love to have one at our dock!

And the guy there is very cool and knows a LOT about boats.

Those boats sure make some of the modern era bling boats look like painted whores.
ed

Those boats sure make some of the modern era bling boats look like painted whores.
ed

Works of art

i saw one roll over like barrel behind me trying to cross my wake, I was running behind N Bay Rd doing about 35 and as he came out of my wake to pass me the boat just rolled right over! Luckily the two guys on board weren't seriously hurt. They are beautiful boats though.

Check out these as well and the owner is one of our own... http://www.facebook.com/Minncraft?ref=ts&fref=ts


he is even making bars for people too... Check him out, name is Rob

http://www.facebook.com/KozyKeel

The lake I boat on Lake George is where these are built. There are a ton of them on the Lake. Ones nicer than the next.

Glad they found their spot. Did my best to put them in N Broward but no luck. Great people.

I saw the exact same thing happen to my buddy's single engine Hacker in the 90s. His wife and son were in the rear cock pit and were washed out. After she got a hold of the owner of Hacker they took it back and he got a twin engine Hacker to "fix". That issue. It never rolled but the white oak ribs in the hull grew Mushrooms within 2 years and it had to go back to NY for all the rotten wood to be replaced. That fix took a year. Then 2 more to sell at a loss. Anyway they are gorgeous boats and turn heads but there is a reason everyone started building them out of fiberglass.

Even our Skater rolled over once & sank, just needed to wash the bad out. Just like any boat Sh*t can happen, Hackers are still a cool boats.

They don't roll going over a ski boat wakes. That's what happened here and we were lucky there were no fatalities. The single engine Hacker has real issues which dates back to the original design. My buddy had 20 years experience and barrel rolled his wife and eight yo son on a Sunday afternoon cruise. I fished them out of the water. It was not pretty. But you are exactly right. St!t happens

I would say there are more hackers on this lake then any other by maybe 5-1. That may be conservative. They are everywhere. I've never heard of a roll happening here. And our lake gets pretty snotty as far as chop. Not calling anyone a lier but that's interesting I've never seen it here.

I was a marine officer for 20+ years with the sheriff dept on Lake St Clair [home of WOODIE powerboats] & never heard of any woodies just rolling over going over wakes. But as a offshore referee for 15 years with APBA, OSO, & USO I have seen many boating accidents, some you can identify the cause, some not. Hacker is now under new ownership, & pride themselves to making the best woodie out there.

I understand that and it's not a snotty water or twin engine boat issue. This happened in the 90's on a narrow smooth river at a slow cruising speed which is why it was so unexpected. It is a very specific problem when a single engine Hacker is following another boat in smooth water and then crosses that boats wake almost parellel with the wake. If the center if gravity gets too far on the opposite side of the prop rotation the torque of the prop will cause it to barrel roll.

Again Hacker makes a great boat and I'm sure they have modified their hull design on the single engine boats to deal with the issue.

I have no dog in this hunt I just don't want to see anyone else go thru what my buddies family did. The three kids were under eight and we terrified someone could have died.

Again I have nothing against Hacker.

This was the old Bill Morgan designed Hacker not the new one that we had issue with

I found this article

http://www.woodyboater.com/classic-b...ke-minnetonka/


WoodyBoater says:
October 2, 2010 at 6:42 am
I got this comment from a very knowlable sorce on these Hackers.. that is if it was a Morgan hacker.. Here it is..
Was this a Morgan Hacker? I have driven the Hackers built by Bill Morgan and they handled like crap in a left turn the rudder blows out you have no steering if all the people were up front and the driver chopped the throttle the stem digs in and the boat rolls over a lot of Morgans boats have rolled tossing the people out a lot of runabouts of all makes have done this.
Reply

I wanted to check the factory out when I was vacationing in Lake George last year. Never got up to Ticonderoga to do it. Definitely checking it out this year.

Very interesting I'll keep this in mind when shopping for one for my old man in the future. I hope it didn't scare the kids off the water.

That is exactly how it happened to the boat that rolled off my wake.

He better....He's Bobby Sheer....one of the greatest Offshore racers in the sport's history.....and a pioneer of cats. He raced a Brownie Cat called Sheer Terror to a number of wins.

T2x

Yes, he is also a good friend of mine..

He grills up a pretty mean burger too!

Jeff