![]() ![]() ![]() He runs the site, lives in South Carolina and is a really nice guy. Andrew Gleason has your boat's twin and did an excellent job of restoring it. Have you been over to the site? I don't remember seeing your boat there. There are two outboard motors that go with. The trailer is a 1972 Holsclaw tilt trailer with easy load rollers. The floor does not affect the structure of the hull. It's been floating around on the web for several months, because the exact same picture shows up on the net a while ago. Description: Up for auction: 1972 Newman tri-hull 15 runabout with trailer, 2 Chrysler outboards. I've been on the hunt for Evinrude hubcaps and score a single one yesterday on eBay. They glide through calm water, but your passengers better be ready to catch some air, when there's some chop.įunny you should post a pic of the Johnson hubcap. Rederic !!!! Thank you, Bruce! Yes, the hulls are very heavy. (think Karl has a story there on this boat)Īttached- pic of twin V-4s- had a neat shaped cowl. The dedicated trailer for Johnsons had special Johnson hubcaps ! Have seen some really cool boat/motor/trailer combos on CL in Wisconsin- still out there in like new condition. ![]() Think theres a Johnson/Erude specific tribute page for these. The step hull was a super cool looking thing in the era, very few boat builders(outside of hydroplane designers) had explored the shapes on lower hulls for a mass produced boat. These were very heavy hulls, requiring a more "beefed-up" trailer, along with the unique shape. The carbs were re-positioned to the side of each engine. The single and twin I/Os were the same v-4 as our 90, only tilted so that the "v" was sitting as a v-8 would in an inboard. By that time, we'd repowered our Skagit with a 1964 90hp Johnson. Like Karl mentioned, they came as single I/Os, twin I/Os and his rare outboard. Rare opportunity to own a classic 1960 Redfish Shark boat from an era of car style boats This one r. And they promoted the boats very actively. 318CID CHRYSLER WITH STARFIRE MARINE JETDRIVE. We've since seen cats and tri-hulls gain popularity and sort of drift away from the spotlight.Īs a kid I remember the Johnson's, especially, as the marina that we kept the boat at was a Johnson dealer. Like Frederic's Evinrude boat, these were pretty experimental for their time. Not long after, in 1987, Glastron Boats was purchased by Genmar Industries, headed by Irwin Jacobs.Love that boat, Karl. Glastron moved its operations in 1984 from Austin to new manufacturing facilities in New Braunfels, Texas. VINTAGE 1960 Chris Craft Commander 66’ Rare BOAT GAUGE PANEL Cluster Switches US. TRI HULL RUNABOUT 1960 FREEFree shipping Free shipping Free shipping. At the end of the 1960s, Glastron developed its most famous boat. KING BIRD 17 18 19 V-Hull Tri-Hull Runabout Waterproof Anti-UV Boat Cover US. The hull combined the stability and quick-planing characteristics of a tri-hull with the smooth ride of a deep-vee hull, the company says. tones gel coat hull, the Aqua Lift deep-vee hull, and their first tri-hull boat. The company introduced its Super Stable Vee hull in 1977. Sales continued to increase in the 1970s with Glastron’s annual production reaching 24,000 units - an average of 96 boats per day. “You could have five people on one side of the boat and one person on the other and not feel like the boat was going to tip,” says Glastron vice president and general manager Bruce Sargent. The boats were wider and more stable than deep-vee models. In 1969 Glastron acquired California-based Carlson Boats and launched its first tri-hull line called the Swinger Series. At the onset of the 1962 model year, Glastron launched the first sterndrive propulsion system, offering the Volvo-powered V-164 Bayflite and the OMC-powered V-154 Futura. ![]()
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