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PT Boats to Custom Cruisers: the Huckins Heritage

It was serendipity that on a rainy day while staying at the Ortega Landing Marina in Jacksonville we needed an oil change and other routine engine room service. Two good boatyards were near our marina, and I decided to have the work done at Huckins. They put us in a working slip for the day and mechanical tech Jack started the work.

Then as I looked around I began to notice beautiful traditional boats in the Huckins riverside boat slips and “on the hard” for restoration and bottom work.

I walked over to the yard office to give them my paperwork. When I entered the small lobby, it felt like a yachting museum. The walls were lined with letters, photos and memorabilia of the remarkable history of Huckins Yacht Corporation. There was even a photo of John F. Kennedy in command of a Huckins PT Boat!

Turns out that Huckins Yacht Corporation, on the Ortega River on Jacksonville, was founded in 1928 and is one of the oldest boat bulders in the United States. During WWII, Huckins was one of three boat builders (the others were Higgins and Elco) that supplied the US Navy with patrol torpedo boats (“PT Boats”).

The Huckins PT boats were 78 feet long, had a 21 foot beam, and with three 1200 HP Packard engines could achieve speeds more than 48 mph. Current “Fairform Flyer” Huckins hulls still use a variant of the lightweight and powerful PT Boat hull design.

Huckins now makes custom yachts ranging from 40 to 90 feet, combining classic design and traditional workmanship with modern technology (like its new 38 foot diesel-electric hybrid yacht). Huckins crafts customized boats one at a time and has built more than 460 yachts during its 90+ years of operation.

The Company is owned by Cindy and Buddy Purcell, the founder’s granddaughter and her husband.

While I was admiring the lobby “museum” a man saw me, came out of the simple adjoining office and asked if he could help me. As we talked, Buddy Purcell modestly told me that he was one of the owners, had worked for the company more than 50 years, and enjoyed every day of his work. I asked for and scored a tour of the workshop and a few of the Huckins yachts in the company’s boat slips.

Buddy is a wealth of knowledge, has a great sense of humor, and lives out a strong loyalty to the company’s products. He talked of joining the company and working in the paint room as the boss’s son-in-law, the difficult but necessary move from wood to composite construction in the 1970s, the many personal and institutional relationships developed over the decades, and his thoughts on continuing the Huckins craftsmanship legacy.

Buddy showed me the upstairs room that houses hand-drawn plans of every boat ever built by Huckins. He even opened a drawer and paged through the original plans of the Huckins PT boat!

Mr. Purcell then toured me along the company’s covered docks and showed me a few examples of beautiful Huckins yachts. In addition to manufacturing new yachts for customers, the company routinely restores, repowers, and services Huckins Yachts made in the 1940s through today.

It was an unexpected privilege to experience this example of traditional custom boat craftsmanship, made in the USA. And as we left the dock when our service work was finished, we were honored to have CEO Buddy Purcell come out to help untie our lines!

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That would have intrigued me “to the nines” in that when i was young, living in So Cal, we would hit Seal Beach (Life Guard Station 9) in the summer, because that’s where the Bellflower Christian School moms and kids hung out. As we got old enough to drive, we’d head further south toward Newport Beach – really cool place, and there in the interior waterway, was a PT109 – an honest-to-goodness WWII original boat, owned by John Wayne, parked in front of his home, and frequently used for rescues between Long Beach and Catalina Island (“26 miles across the sea”). Great memories and fun times! KB

Wow!! That is really cool, Rick!! What a treat! I’ve been reading all of your posts and I really enjoy hearing about all of your adventures! Prayers for continued safe travels!!

What an experience.

Great story! I am sure you did not expect such a fun encounter while waiting for an oil change.

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DO NOT GO HERE! They do not take care of your boat during restoration. They do not clean up. They left our boat a mess when they were through. We thought for sure they would send a cleaning crew. They did not. They are terrible about scheduling. They took so much longer than promised. They cost so much more than promised. Do not trust them with your boat!

I can't say enough good things about the staff and crew at Huckins. We had a list of items that we needed taken care of on our Kadey-Krogen 42 and since we live aboard it was important to have an accurate time line for the work. We were scheduled in on a Monday at 0830 and were promptly hauled and the work started. The work we had listed was reviewed with the service manager PJ and representatives from the different crafts. During the review we were given some suggestions and advice during which we added and subtracted some items. Not once did my wife or I feel we were being pushed into additional work. Since we needed fiberglass repair and painting, a bottom job, stuffing box service, electrical and bonding system checks, carpentry work and running gear service you can understand the difficulty with scheduling. During the running gear service when they removed the wheel (prop) they discovered the cutlass bearing was bad and needed to be replaced. PJ contacted me and was able to get it taken care of immediately. The team was welcoming and never seemed too busy to explain what they were doing and why. Huckins was able to complete all of our items on schedule and the work was exemplary. We could not have been more pleased. Pat M.

We had Huckins fix a cracked hull on our power boat. The hull work was decent but they trashed our boat boat in the process. They left all the windows open for days and it rained heavily . We had standing water in our boat and the wood floors are permanently damaged along with the wood on our bunk beds. The cushions are water logged and mildewed. They also used our single head multiple times and clogged the line. When we addressed these issues with them they shrugged us off and claimed no responsibility for it. I would not advise not using them.

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Music and concerts, subscriber only, music and concerts | the new minnesota yacht club festival enjoys breezy opening on harriet island, it’s the first major rock/pop festival on the site in a dozen years.

Fans listen to country singer Morgan Wade during the St. Paul Yacht Club Festival at Harriet Island in St. Paul on Friday, July 19, 2024. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

Country singer Morgan Wade performs during the St. Paul Yacht Club Festival at Harriet Island in St. Paul on Friday, July 19, 2024. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

Fans of Gwen Stefani wearing "Holla Back" T-Shirts dance and sing as they listen to country singer Morgan Wade during the St. Paul Yacht Club Festival at Harriet Island in St. Paul on Friday, July 19, 2024. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

Melissa Nelson from St. Cloud dances with a hula-hoop as she listens to Minnesota based band Harbor and Home during the St. Paul Yacht Club Festival at Harriet Island in St. Paul on Friday, July 19, 2024. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

Beyond one big name band jumping ship at the last minute , it was otherwise smooth sailing Friday for day one of the new Minnesota Yacht Club Festival at St. Paul’s Harriet Island Regional Park.

Yacht Club, which continues Saturday, is the first major rock and pop festival on Harriet Island since Live Nation’s River’s Edge Music Festival in 2012. Despite promising St. Paul a five-year commitment, the concert promoting giant lost enough money to convince them to pull out after a single year.

Live Nation owns 51% of Yacht Club organizers C3 Presents, an Austin, Texas, company that’s also behind Austin City Limits Music Festival, Voodoo Music + Arts Experience and the modern-day Lollapalooza. But Live Nation apparently allows C3 to follow its own path.

Some concertgoers complained about food and drink prices, and long lines, but in terms of getting in and around the site, the infrastructure and general vibe, C3’s experience in mounting festivals became quite clear by late Friday afternoon, when Joan Jett and the Blackhearts played an hourlong set to a large, grinning and dancing crowd. (Organizers did not release an attendance number, but have said they expect more than 30,000 people each of the two days.)

On Thursday, Yacht Club’s social media announced reunited Southern rockers the Black Crowes had pulled out of their planned set at 8 p.m. Friday due to “illness in the band.” (The Crowes, however, did not address their absence online.) Rather than drafting an 11th hour replacement, the festival reworked the schedule and gave several acts more time on stage. Local band Durry got pushed nearly two hours later into the schedule for a set that started at 5:40, while Seattle indie folk act the Head and the Heart graduated to the Black Crowes’ planned 8 p.m. slot.

Local favorites Gully Boys opened the festival at 1 p.m. on the smaller stage followed by fellow homegrown act Harbor and Home on the main stage. From that point on, performances alternated between the two stages, with just minutes between bands.

Sets from buzzy country artist Morgan Wade and indie rockers Michigander paved the way for Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, who earned cheers for their famous covers “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah),” “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll,” “Crimson and Clover” and “Everyday People” as well as band originals “I Hate Myself for Loving You” and “Bad Reputation.” They also covered the Replacements’ “Androgynous,” with Jett giving a shout out to the late Minneapolis band and their leader Paul Westerberg.

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter took the stage prior to Gwen Stefani’s performance and asked the crowd to applaud the police and other city workers who helped make the festival happen. He also suggested it would return for a second year in 2025.

Stefani — who was promoted as a headliner along with Friday’s final act Alanis Morissette and Saturday’s main attraction the Red Hot Chili Peppers — performed with dancers and video at what sounded like a louder volume than the previous bands. She told the audience her brother-in-law is from Minnesota, so that sort of makes her a local. She then pulled out her husband, former “The Voice” coach Blake Shelton, to sing their current single “Purple Irises.”

It’s been some 18 years since her last substantial solo hit, but Stefani has remained in the spotlight thanks to her high-profile husband and the semi-regular duet singles they’ve released over the last eight years. Stefani and her band No Doubt reunited in April to headline Coachella to much acclaim, but have yet to announce any future plans together. Whatever happens, Friday’s crowd — which was heavy on geriatric millennials and Gen Xers with a smattering of boomers — gave Stefani a warm reception that matched the ideal summertime weather that graced the festival on Friday.

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