The Hinckley 42 Competition is an American sailboat that was designed by McCurdy & Rhodes as a racer and first built in 1982.
The Hinckley 42 Competition is a development of the Sou'wester 42/43, also a McCurdy & Rhodes design.
The design was built by Hinckley Yachts in Southwest Harbor, Maine, United States, starting in 1982, but it is now out of production.
The Hinckley 42 Competition is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a masthead sloop rig, an internally mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin keel. It displaces .
The boat has a draft of with the standard keel and a hull speed of .