Tim Hodgdon is the owner of the company and the fifth generation of his family to carry on the name. When he took over the business from his father, Sonny, the time-honored method of fastening planks on frames was still being practiced.
When work began on the 154-foot 7-inch ketch Scheherazade, Hodgdon knew that to compete in an increasingly high-tech market, it was imperative to implement the latest technologies and processes into designing and constructing yachts. That research led to the use of cold molding. This process uses epoxy to bond a successive series of thin wood laminates to a wood frame, providing a strong and stable hull.