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Reggie Rose acquired a 50% interest in Fiberglass Fabricators in 1963 and helped build a customer base. Fiberglass Fabricators produced their first boat hulls in 1964 and was producing their own complete boats by 1965. Fiberglass Fabricators then started to focus all their efforts on manufacturing boats and shy away from other products. [2]
Fiberglass and epoxy are applied to the canoe inside and out. The fiberglass covering is transparent, waterproof, and allowing the wood strips to be seen. The strips are usually cedar but can be any type of wood. Contrasting woods are sometimes used as accent strips. [2] The last steps in construction is to install the seats, thwarts, and gunwales.
This model has a smaller cabin with two settee berths, but a longer cockpit. The cockpit has wooden seats and is not self-bailing, but the boat is equipped with a mainsheet traveler and a cabin-top stepped mast, with one set of lower shrouds. [1] [4] Sea Sprite 23 Weekender This model has a self-bailing cockpit, with molded fiberglass seats.
The Quickstep 24 is a recreational keelboat, that was designed to be built with an aluminum hull, but all production boats were built of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a rounded transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel.
The Shields is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim, including teak coamings, toe-rails, handrails, the cockpit floor grating and the cockpit seats. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars.
The Glastex Company, founded in Tinley Park, Illinois, produced a range of fiberglass products including fiberglass fibers for industrial use. Beginning in 1953, Glastex began to manufacture fiberglass boats, making it one of the earliest builders of molded fiberglass boats in the United States. From 1953 to 1962, Glastex built "Speed Queen" boats.
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