Hacker Boat Company, now in its 114th year of building traditional wooden boats, has decided it’s time for something new and different.
The company was founded in 1908 in Detroit, around the time that Henry Ford started building cars there. Following a move in the 1970s, Hacker has continued to build boats in Ticonderoga, New York—until this past September, when production moved about an hour south to a more suburban location in Queensbury, New