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BETTER BOATING
Yachting US
|October 2023
The Hinckley JetStick 4 adds technology updates for precision when docking or holding a heading out on the water.
LET'S BE HONEST, DRIVING A BOAT with a joystick seemed altogether bizarre when Hinckley Yachts introduced the JetStick a quarter-century ago. "It's a strange sensation," Yachting's editor-in-chief wrote in 1998. "It is intuitive and vastly different from any other steering and control function on any production powerboat I have been on. In simple terms, the joystick handles all facets of the boat, except for the rpm. I don't need to do the usual hand dance and alternate between grabbing the wheel, throttle, and gear shift." The JetStick was mind-bending stuff for old salts, but it made perf
This story is from the October 2023 edition of Yachting US.
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