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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 ...
Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth .
In around 1975 Fiberfab introduced a kit for a reverse tricycle called the Scarab STM (for "Sports Transport Module"). [4] The car used a custom frame with front suspension from a VW Beetle and a motorcycle frame and engine in back. [49] The Scarab STM was made at the company's Baldwin Street, Bridgeville, Pennsylvania plant. As few as six were ...
Bakelite was the first fibre-reinforced plastic. Leo Baekeland had originally set out to find a replacement for shellac (made from the excretion of lac bugs).Chemists had begun to recognize that many natural resins and fibres were polymers, and Baekeland investigated the reactions of phenol and formaldehyde.
The hull’s very mild "V" bottom and hard chine make Sunfish a most stable boat for its size, along with enabling it to sail on a plane (hydroplane). Planing allows the boat achieve a speed greater than theoretical hull speed based on length at waterline . Having a down-wind performance advantage helps the Sunfish achieve a planing attitude at ...
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sails , spars, and derricks , giving necessary height to a navigation light , look-out position , signal yard , control position , radio aerial or signal lamp . [ 1 ]