TOPIC: Fiberglide Boat Company?

Anyone have any information on the Fiberglide Boat Company of New Boston, Texas?

Here are pictures of the Fiberglide boat.


1959 Fiberglide

Nice fins, sc, pretty boat! Two things you might want to check on though.....
There appears to be a large bulge/bubble along the port side just above the trailer tire. Is that a spot that has been repaired, or what? Could be delamination, I'd check it out.
Also, it appears the transom may be bowed out a little, hard to tell in the pic for sure. You can put a straight edge horizontally across there now without a motor being mounted to check it. If it's bowed, it strongly suggests transom replacement may be necessary.
Not trying to rain on your parade, just want everybody to be safe out there.

MarkS wrote:

Two things you might want to check on though.....
There appears to be a large bulge/bubble along the port side just above the trailer tire. Is that a spot that has been repaired, or what? Could be delamination, I'd check it out.
Also, it appears the transom may be bowed out a little.....

Mark,
I have one of these boats myself.. The transom is a curved and not flat like most boats. Also, that "bulge" you are seeing is probably just wavy mold work. Or at least mine is. Mine is the same way and it's not delaminated.
Doug

My apologies, sc! Doug knows what he's talking about, and I learn something every day.

I worked in the composite industry for years and have visited a few old fashioned and also modern boat factories and the look of hand lay up old fashioned molding versus modern vacuum oven cured molding is like night and day!

Take a look at early fiberglass sail boats - many are thick and wavy!