Coincidentally, this was the same day on which the first ever Model T Ford automobile was produced by his friend, Henry Ford. In 1904, he designed Au Revoir, the fastest boat in the world at the time, and on August 12, 1908, building on this success, he founded the Hacker Boat Company in Detroit, upon purchasing and renaming an existing firm, the Detroit Launch and Power Company.
The boat also featured Hacker's revolutionary "V"-hull design, which produced stunning speed and efficiency at low horsepower. The boat's propeller and rudder were mounted under the transom and a strut was used to position the propeller shaft.
Nonetheless, he built a test craft to prove his new theories-a 30-foot (9.1 m) runabout. His theory was that if his boats were going to go fast, they would have to "plane" rather than plow through the water, but the tendency to plane was considered an unsafe mode that was to be avoided. Hacker's first major task in boat design was to try to solve the problem of "squatting", which occurred with all the canoe-stern shaped powerboats of the 1900s. Pleasure boats of the 1900 era were narrow, round bottomed launches that plowed through the water instead of planing over it as boats do nowadays. Once qualified (at the age of 22) he set about solving a number of problems that inhibited speed and performance in motor boats. For four years, while working at his father's business as a bookkeeper, he attended night school and took a correspondence course in order to become an accredited marine designer. Hacker was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 24, 1877. Hacker-Craft's logo, hand-painted in gold leaf on the side of a mahogany runabout
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