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Welcome to FiberGlassics®

In July 1998 this site began an attempt to recognize the style and creativity of the original fiberglass boat designs from the 50's & 60's, plus capture the spirit of a time that has since past. This site honors the pioneering minds that conceived and created these beautiful, never to be made again, classic fiberglass boats.

Within this site, you will find information on classic fiberglass boats. There are many sections. All librarys, pictures and information are FREE. Enjoy your time here.

Book Part 3 - Refinishing

Sunday, 29 August 2010 18:22 |

Written by Jamil Mehdi | PDF | E-mail

FiberGlassics® would like to thank Jamil Mehdi for this article. This content is copyrighted, and cannot be reproduced in any form without written permission from the author.

Boat Refinishing

This tutorial covers the following Topics:

Restore or Refinish?
Polishing Gelcoat
Gelcoat Repair
Gelcoat vs. Paint
Painting a Boat
- Previously Painted Boats
- Preparation
- The Finish
Bedding Hardware
After Care

This is the section everybody wants to read first. This section assumes the parts that make a boat a boat have all been structurally brought up to snuff. The transom is solid, the stringers bonded to the hull, the fiberglass repaired and any other structural element in question is back to, or better than, its original state.

If you have only given the other sections a cursory glance because, let's be honest, it's somewhat boring, I urge you to go back and read them again. No element of yacht refinishing is worth doing without first taking care of the foundation upon which they reside.

The Search for a Lonestar Meteor

Monday, 15 February 2010 15:29 |

Written by KevFIN | PDF | E-mail

The search for a Meteor by Kevin Mueller.

The Carp DeVille

A visit to the Lunatic's FRIDGE

Tales are told, of characters met while collecting. Some speak past a single tooth, clutching a snarling junk yard dog, slurring each word with great concentration, standing as though distracted, angry, a pool of crimson flowing from the darkest corner of the garage, crimson dripping from the end of the wrench clenched tightly within a trembling fist, crimson, smeared upon tattered clothes, soaked into unkempt hair, dripping, dripping, "That is just transmission fluid isn't it!?!"

Yet no tale could be so chilling as the tale of Blackbeer, Bill Blackbeer the third! (alright, so the names have been changed, but I swear that's close!)

I once saw an ad. for a Lone Star Meteor in a copy of Hemmings Motor news. I was proudly displaying my newly restored Glastron at a car show, when a guy named Lenny came up to me and said "How would you like to buy a boat with tailfins and a pair of headlights that make it look like a big ol frog?" You have a Lone Star Meteor, I asked, recalling the photo in the ad.

I passed on it of course, having been much smarter at the time!