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Image credits: Georgiegoodboy #3 My Craft. I Restored These Century Old Doors Of A Mausoleum. The doors are about 130 years old, made from oak and are heritage protected.
Boats were often given Mediterranean-sounding names, and the boat classes within the model were often indicated by a model type then model name, with a hyphen in between. For example, in the 14-foot (4.3 m) range there was a model called the Lido, which came in three configurations: the Sport-Lido, Club-Lido, and Lido (standard).
Penn Yan Boat Company, which produced a wide range of wooden and fiberglass powerboats, sailboats, canoes and rowboats, [1] was founded in 1921 by German-native Charles A. Herrman. [2] It derived its name from the location of its headquarters, Penn Yan, New York . [ 2 ]
Sea Stag II, 38-foot (12 m), 1946 Restored by Mayea Boat & Aeroplane Works. Late into the 1960s, the boat building market underwent a transformation. New materials like aluminum and fiberglass were proving to be more durable and affordable. The demand shifted from wood to these materials; Stephens Bros. launched its last wooden boat in 1974.
The SFZC soon gave up the dilapidated boat whose upkeep became unwieldy. Now in private hands, the Vallejo was transferred across the San Francisco Bay to an Alameda shipyard for repairs in 2000, and then returned to her dock in Sausalito. [12] [13] A new fiberglass outer hull was constructed and installed. The houseboat operates as a private ...
Richard “Dick” Valdes and Maurice V. Threinen founded Glass Laminates, a fiberglass contract company, in 1958. Among the early products were camper shells and producing canoes for Sears. The company eventually focused its development expertise on sailboats and became Glass Marine Industries (GMI), marketing their boats under the Columbia ...
USS PT-96, built by Huckins at Jacksonville, Florida, underway at high speed, circa 1942. Huckins Yacht Corporation built PT boats for two squadrons during World War II. In 1940, three governing bodies – the Bureau of Ships, the Board of Inspection and Survey, and the Navy Personnel Command – had agreed that all PT boats developed up to that time were defective.
Glastron V-142 Skilifte motor boat in Forum Marinum maritime museum. Glastron is a boat manufacturing company and was one of the first manufacturers of fiberglass boats. Glastron is owned by Rec Boat Holdings, a subsidiary of Groupe Beneteau. Bob Hammond, Bill Gaston, Bob Shoop, and Guy Woodard founded the company on October 14, 1956, in Austin ...