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Southport boats are built in the company's 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m 2) production plant in South Gardiner, Maine. [6] All Southports, like most other sport fishing boats, are made of fiberglass. The hull of the boat is made in a pre-fabricated mold, where the outer layer of gelcoat is applied first, then the layers of fiberglass. After the ...
Front Street Shipyard is a custom boat builder, boat yard, marina, and service yard in Belfast, Maine, USA. The yard is located along the waterfront in Penobscot Bay. The business was established in 2011. [1] One year later, the ownership group also purchased the neighboring business, Belfast Boat Yard. [2]
The Meyers Manx dune buggy is a small, two-passenger, recreational kit car designed and marketed by California engineer, artist, boat builder and surfer Bruce F. Meyers [1] and manufactured by his Fountain Valley, California company, B. F. Meyers & Co. from 1964 to 1971.
Hodgdon Yachts (incorporated as Hodgdon Shipbuilding, LLC [1] and previously known as "Hodgdon Brothers" yard) is a builder of yachts and specialized military vessels, based in East Boothbay, Maine. It is a family-run business that was founded in 1816—the oldest continuously operating family boatbuilder in the United States, predating the ...
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The revitalized Thompson Boat at St. Charles slowly rebuilt, but bankruptcy was declared in 1993. A new owner came in and got the firm going again. By about 1997 regular production ceased and all boat production stopped by 2000 or 2001. A liquidation auction in 2002 signaled the end of almost 100 years of boat building history. [6] [7]
San Diego Marine; San Pedro Boatworks; Sausalito Shipbuilding; Scarab (boat) Sea Ray; Joe Seliga; Glenn Simmons; Christopher Columbus Smith; Isaac E. Smith; Soule Steel Company; Southport Boats; Spaulding Wooden Boat Center; Myron Spaulding; StanCraft Boat Company; Stephens Bros. Boat Builders; Stone Boat Yard; Summerfield Boat Works
Fiberglass seemed the logical construction material, and Otto Bayer of Wizard Boats was enlisted as laminator. The boat was named the Green Dolphin, and four were built in various lengths. This was Tritt's first effort in fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP). By 1948 he was building small fiberglass sailing dinghies, and built the first ever ...