Millie B is a twenty-eight foot, triple-cockpit HackerCraft. She was built in 1994, a replica of a boat made by the Hacker Boat Company in 1928.

John Hacker, founder of Hacker Boat Company, was a naval architect who began designing and building boats as early as 1911. He was the originator of the triple cockpit runabout born in the 1920s, answering the call for a glitzy pleasure boat that would speed through the water.

By the late 1920s there were three manufacturers of this style boat, HackerCraft, Garwood, founded by Garfield Wood, and Chris Craft, founded by Chris Smith. Chris Craft made and sold more boats than the other two, and today the name “Chris Craft” is often used to describe this era of wooden boat.

Millie B has a beam of just over seven feet, and draws twenty-two inches of water. She has an expanded second cockpit, and can accommodate up to ten passengers easily, and is licensed for up to twelve. The boat is made almost entirely of Honduras mahogany including the triple planked bottom, sides and deck; the stem, keel and ribs are made of white oak. There are over ten coats of spar varnish on the deck and sides.

She is powered with a single screw 454-cubic inch Crusader engine made by General Motors. With over 350 horsepower, Millie B can do over fifty-miles-per-hour!