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1997 Hinckley Picnic Boat Classic

Annapolis, Maryland

$255,000

MURPHY GIRL is a stunning Picnic Boat Classic with many highly desirable custom and optional features. Major upgrades include a Yanmar 440hp engine, custom engine box seating and bar area, Raymarine electronics, and a sail shade for the aft cockpit.  Annual maintenance and storage by Hinckley Yacht Service ensures she runs well, looks great, and will convey with the Hinckley Certified Pre-Owned Silver one-year warranty. Easily shown in Annapolis, MD. 

Disclaimer

KAM Yacht Sales, LLC is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Hinckley Yacht Brokerage.

Basic Boat Info

Boat Name: MURPHY GIRL
Make: Hinckley
Model: Picnic Boat Classic
Year: 1997
Condition: Used
Category: Power
Builder: Hinckley Yachts
Designer: Bruce King
Construction: Composite
Boat Hull ID: HRH36055H797
Has Hull ID: Yes

Dimensions

Length: 36 ft / 10.97 m
Length Overall: 36'5 ft / 11.10 m
Length Of Deck: 36'5 ft / 11.10 m
Waterline Length: 34 ft / 10.36 m
Beam: 10 ft / 3.05 m
Max Draft: 1'6 ft / 0.46 m
Dry Weight: 11,500 lb
Cabins Count: 1

Engines / Speed

Engines: 1
  • Make: Yanmar
  • Model: 6LY2A-STP
  • Drive Type: Jet
  • Fuel: Diesel
  • Engine Power: 440hp
  • Type: Inboard
  • Year: 1997
  • Engine Hours: 1040
Cruising Speed: 22 kn
Maximum Speed: 27 kn

Tanks

Fuel Tanks: 1
Fuel Tank Capacity: 160 gal
Fuel Tank Material: Aluminum
Water Tanks: 1
Water Tank Capacity: 30 gal
Water Tank Material: Stainless Steel
Holding Tank Count: 1
Holding Tank Capacity: 25 gal

Other

Heads Count: 1
Drive Type: Jet
Boat Class: Jet Boats, Express Cruiser, Downeast

Steering System
Joystick Control
VESSEL WALKTHROUGH

INTRODUCTION:

Hinckley’s Picnic Boat Classic combines traditional aesthetics in her beautiful lines and stunning craftsmanship with modern design and materials.  MURPHY GIRL’s thoughtful features and appointments, including shallow waterjet draft, easy and intuitive JetStick control system, and custom seating and tables make her well equipped for effortless and elegant entertaining, day cruising, or weekending.  She features an open and comfortable pilothouse and cockpit, with ample deck space and seating.  Below in the air-conditioned cabin she sleeps two comfortably and offers amenities including galley and head with shower.

 

MURPHY GIRL’S significant features include:

  • Upgraded Yanmar 440hp engine with waterjet drive
  • Upgraded JetStick control system
  • Custom engine box with cushioned seating and a bar-height table
  • Custom removable pilothouse table
  • Custom aft sailshade-type sun shade (2022)
  • Air conditioning for the cabin
  • Raymarine Hybrid touch multi-function display
  • New Fusion stereo and speakers (2023)
  • New headliner with custom batten (2023)
  • Hinckley serviced and maintained
  • Hinckley Certified Pre-Owned Silver one-year warranty

 

 

HULL and DECK:

 

  • Flag Blue Awlgrip      
  • Light Cream gelcoat cabin & deck with molded in nonskid
  • Single White Boot Stripe         
  • Blue Bottom
  • Varnished teak exterior teak trim         

 

Construction:

  • Hull is Kevlar E-glass hybrid and balsa core, SCRIMPed with vinylester resin
  • Deck and cockpit are E-glass and balsa core, molded with polyester resin
  • The forward and side decks have a molded-in nonskid pattern
  • Molded non-skid fiberglass deck on cockpit sole
  • Marelon ball-valve seacocks with thru-hulls below water line and Marelon thru-hulls above the waterline
  • Stainless steel half round on fiberglass molded rub rail
  • Stainless steel capped aft hull quarter splashguards
  • Four fender pad eyes each side
  • Stainless steel half round on teak toe rail at each pad eye location

 

Swim Platform: 

  • Heavy-duty fiberglass swim platform with teak insert treads (new paint and teak treads 2021)
  • Stainless steel bracket and half round rub rail
  • Stainless steel folding swim ladder, stores underneath

 

Deck features:

  • Stainless steel bow pulpit
  • Rounded, tapered, varnished teak toe rail with Hinckley profile
  • Varnished teak eyebrow molding around cabin top
  • Stainless steel handrails on house and cabin tops
  • (3) Low profile opening aluminum hatches
  • Four fixed elliptical ports on house sides
  • Bimini top that folds and stows under starboard gunwale
  • Mast-mounted spotlight and roof-top mounted radar antenna
  • Bow, stern and spring line 316L stainless steel mooring cleats
  • Custom Hinckley 316L stainless steel bow chocks
  • Padeyes with chafe strips to hang fenders

 

 

COCKPIT

 

  • Varnished teak coaming caps
  • Fiberglass molded non-skid cockpit sole with four cockpit direct drainage scuppers 
  • Two-step interior teak boarding step can be mounted on either port or starboard inside coaming
  • Stowage in cockpit lockers with varnished teak doors, three to port and two to starboard
  • Three flush cockpit-sole hatches
  • Full cockpit cover attaches with snaps
  • Cushions upholstered in blue and white stripe indoor/outdoor fabric
  • Aft transom settee seating is removable 
  • Large transom-top locker for storage or can be used as an ice chest

 

Insulated Engine Box:

  • Unique and useful bar-height varnished teak table with cupholders
  • Greatly improves usability of the standard cushioned engine box top
  • Cushioned forward and aft facing settees
  • Stainless steel footrests
  • Lead lined acoustic foam with double gaskets

 

Aft Sun Shade:

  • Custom ‘sail shade’ for easy to use and removable sun protection
  • Attaches to underside of pilothouse and to removable stanchions
  • Deploys and stows quickly

 

 

PILOTHOUSE:

 

The Pilothouse is trimmed in varnished teak and the insulated white headliner has two acrylic opening hatches. 

  • (4) Four pilothouse windows - (2) two fixed side windows and (2) two fixed forward
  • Heavy-duty, self-parking, intermittent windshield wipers and fresh water washers
  • Teak locking companionway door with bi-folding removable hatch-top
  • Two overhead lights 
  • An Ivory 3-piece drop curtain with isinglass windows to enclose pilothouse 
  • Varnish teak handrails port and starboard aft in the pilothouse
  • Custom removable table attaches to underside of port side settee

 

Pilothouse (To Port):

  • Back to back seat upholstered in Sunbrella Blue and White Stripe fabric
  • Custom removable table mounts to underside of seat base
  • Port side cup-holder/drink holder, teak varnished grab rail
  • Stainless steel footrest bulkhead mounted
  • Stainless steel bar-style lower footrest for forward and aft-facing seat
  • Storage under seats accessed through a varnished cherry louvered door

 

Helm Station (Starboard)

  • Helm chair with manual adjustment and upholstered arm rests
  • Varnished teak instrument pod
  • Stainless steel bulkhead mounted footrest
  • Stainless steel 14” steering wheel with varnished wood rim
  • Hinckley JetStick® joystick control
  • Engine gauges, tachometer, temperature, oil pressure, fuel, and Jet nozzle direction (steering angle) indicator
  • Top-opening locker with chart storage, outboard of helm seat
  • 12-volt outlet in chart pocket
  • Ignition key switches with push-button stop
  • Electrical breaker panel - mounted outboard between helm station and helm seat

 

Helm Electronics and Navigation Equipment:

  • Raymarine Hybridtouch multi function display with radar
  • Raymarine p70s autopilot control head
  • Raymarine tri-data display
  • Raymarine VHF
  • Ritchie compass

 

Entertainment Electronics:

  • Fusion stereo receiver 
  • Four Fusion speakers

 

 

INTERIOR ACCOMMODATIONS & LAYOUT:

 

MURPHY GIRL’s interior provides comfortable accommodations for two, has a separate head with shower, and a galley.  The interior is finished in satin-varnished cherry, including sheathing. The cabin sole is varnished teak & holly.  

  • Four fixed ports above
  • Opening overhead hatch
  • Galley counter top in off-white Formica
  • Five Frigast stainless steel 12-volt lamps provide plenty of interior lighting
  • Air conditioning with reverse-cycle heat

 

Forward Berth:

V-Berth arrangement - Cushions upholstered medium blue fabric

  • Storage under the v-berth with access under the mattress
  • Forepeak anchor locker storage behind a louvered cherry door
  • Hanging locker to starboard just aft of the V-berth
  • Two window ports
  • Filler piece to form double berth
  • Air conditioning vents

 

HEAD (Opposite Starboard)

Next aft of the hanging locker to starboard is a private head with a solid cherry door.

  • Varnished cherry countertop with a white porcelain under mount sink
  • Grohe faucet/hand held shower provides hot & cold pressure water
  • Vacu-flush marine head and holding tank
  • Floor is seamless gelcoat for easy cleaning
  • Mirror on the forward bulkhead with cherry frame
  • Storage in cherry faced lockers above and outboard the vanity, a drawer with a cherry face beside the marine head, and a locker under the vanity
  • 110-volt outlet
  • Forced ventilation
  • Opening port with screen
  • Two (2) Frigast 12-volt LED lights
  • Towel bar on aft bulkhead
  • Air conditioning vent

 

GALLEY (Port)

The Galley is to port with an off white Formica countertop that has a stainless steel sink with Grohe fixture and hot and cold pressure water.  The two-burner propane stove is set in the countertop forward.  The Adler Barber refrigeration is mounted aft of the sink and is accessed by a lift-up top.  A “pantry” locker with louvered door and interior shelves and a flip-up fiddled top separates the galley from the V-berth area.  Additional storage located under the galley sink. 

 

  • Force 10 two-burner stove with remote propane shut-off and wood cover
  • Adler Barber refrigeration – 12-volt cold plate refrigerator in a self-draining box
  • Stainless steel sink with Grohe fixture
  • Pressure hot & cold fresh water system
  • Pullout under counter garbage receptacle
  • (3) Cherry pullout drawers
  • 110-volt outlet
  • Step-light in galley area.
  • Opening port with screen
  • Frigast 12-volt LED light - mounted on aft bulkhead
  • Propane solenoid shut-off panel

 

 

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:

 

The electrical system has a low resistance, heavy copper and zinc anode electrical bonding system.

  • DC electrical panel and AC sub-panel

 

12-Volt DC SYSTEM:

  • (3) 12-volt batteries, (2) 4D AGM house batteries and (1) Group 31 AGM engine start battery
  • 80-amp battery alternator
  • Heavy-duty battery parallel switch
  • 12-Volt system voltmeter and amp meter
  • DC systems breaker switch protected

 

110-Volt 30-Amp AC SYSTEM:

  • 110-volt 30 amp shore power inlet, relay and shore power cord
  • 30-amp battery charger
  • 110-volt outlet in head & galley
  • AC electrical panel and DC sub-panel

 

 

MECHANICAL/ENGINE EQUIPMENT:

 

  • Yanmar 6LY2A-STP 440-hp engine (head update completed in 2010)
  • Hamilton 291 Jet Drive
  • Vetus 7” bow thruster
  • Gen 2 JetStick® control system - integrated with the bow thruster
  • Racor fuel filter
  • Tachometer w/ engine hours gauge
  • Fuel, oil pressure, and water temperature gauges
  • High engine temperature alarm
  • Low oil pressure alarm
  • “Water drop” muffler
  • Engine room sound insulation
  • Oil transfer pump for engine and transmission
  • Manual hydraulic steering pump
  • In-line 12-volt sump pump
  • (2) Electric 1500-GPH 12-volt bilge pumps - with float switches
  • Whale emergency bilge pump - with handle in cockpit
  • Aluminum 25-gallon holding tank - with overboard discharge
  • Stainless steel 6-gallon hot water heater

 

 

EQUIPMENT:

 

  • Varnished bow burgee pennant staff with rail mounted socket
  • Stern mounted varnished teak ensign pole & socket
  • Dock lines
  • Fenders
  • Masthead and cabin side running lights
  • 12-volt trumpet horn - with switch on dash
  • Life jackets
  • Fire extinguishers
  • ACR 12-volt remote spotlight masthead mounted with remote control at helm
Disclaimer
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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