26 STERLING RUNABOUT

Building Facts:

• 210 days/2043 man-hours to build.

• Over 22,750 stainless steel fasteners —screws, nuts, bolts, and staples.

• 16 coats of spar varnish – each coat hand-sanded and hand brushed with badger hair brushes.

This boat is Prototype Hull # 1 of the new runabout model STERLING. This boat will be on tour throughout the United States and Canada and then returned to be put on display at the Hacker Boat Company in Silver Bay, New York. The name STERLING is derived to honor the Sterling Motor Company of Buffalo, New York. Sterling engines were installed in many of Hacker’s early runabouts--including Hacker’s 1914 Gold Cup racer Buffalo Enquirer. The STERLING model will be sold in European markets under a different name—it will be called the AU REVOIR--named to honor John L. Hacker’s first production boat of the same name built in 1903.