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  2. Sailfish (sailboat) - Wikipedia

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    Early Sailfish were offered in the form of boat plans for the backyard boat builder along with an option to purchase the boat from the Alcort shop, fully assembled and ready to sail. In the beginning, do-it-yourself boat builders crafted every piece, formed and assembled all the hardware from raw metal stock, and even sewed their own sail.

  3. Chris-Craft Boats - Wikipedia

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    Chris Smith built his first wooden boat in 1874 at the age of 13. [1] Years later, he built a duck hunting boat. His friends liked the way he built them, and they asked him to build them one. This was technically the start of the boat company. He soon began to build more boats and joined his brother Hank in 1881 to begin producing boats full-time.

  4. Category:American boat builders - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Boat building - Wikipedia

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    A subdivision of the sheet plywood boat building method is known as the stitch-and-glue method, [8] where pre-shaped panels of plywood are drawn together then edge glued and reinforced with fibreglass without the use of a frame. [9] Metal or plastic ties, nylon fishing line or copper wires pull curved flat panels into three-dimensional curved ...

  6. Stitch and glue - Wikipedia

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    The one sheet boat (OSB, cf. oriented strand board) is an outgrowth of the stitch and glue technique. The OSB is a boat that can be built using a single sheet of 4 foot by 8 foot plywood (1.22 m × 2.44 m). Some additional wood is often used, for supports, chines, or as a transom, though some can be built entirely with the sheet of plywood ...

  7. Sunfish (sailboat) - Wikipedia

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    A few years after their 1969 purchase of Alcort, Inc., AMF revisited the idea of a high aspect ratio rig for the Sunfish. AMF did not choose to adopt Lee's Formula S design, they did however, develop their own variation calling it the Super Sunfish. The existing Formula S fleet eventually became assimilated into the ranks of AMF Super Sunfish ...

  8. MasterCraft - Wikipedia

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    The MasterCraft Boat Company is an American manufacturer of luxury high-performance boats. The company was founded in 1968 in Maryville, Tennessee, and is currently headquartered in Vonore, Tennessee. [1] MasterCraft boats are used in waterskiing, wakeboarding and wake surfing. The company has also produced several boats that are not focused on ...

  9. Cobalt Boats - Wikipedia

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    As of 2017, Cobalt was producing over 2,000 boats per year in its Neodesha facility, [2] and for the 12 month period ending March 31, 2017, Cobalt "generated approximately $140 million in net sales" selling 24 boat models "through a dealer network of 132 locations in the United States, Canada, and overseas". [4]