"When developing products you can improve a design you already have, buy a company with existing tooling, or start fresh. We chose to start fresh. And because we could go in any direction we wanted, our only parameters were that loads, pressures, and lengths had to fit within sailboat industry standards. We thought, why stick with
the status quo, let's go with something new and innovative to make our product stand above the rest on the market. In the standard Harken way,
we took on the hardest jobs first because when we
figured out how to do those, it would be easy to do the rest of the product line."
—Robbie Young, Hydraulics Product Manager
