Husband and wife Eugene and Rose Evans, grew up on Smith Island, Md., where Eugene started his working life as a commercial ...

The fiberglass molds can be used indefinitely — until ... Its boatbuilding division, CH Marine, is best known for building four boats for Billy Joel, including Alexa, made famous by his song ...

Ivan Basargin Sr.s Top Notch is one of the early aluminum boats built by Basargin Boats. It reflects the Basargin family’s ...

In the summer of 1974, Sam Devlin was working on a tugboat in Alaska when he read the first issue of Wooden Boat Magazine ... t require expensive molds like fiberglass, and can be maintained ...

But here at the Maverick facility, I didn’t smell any of the noxious chemicals associated with building boats. The second thing ... line was what appeared to be a hull mold covered in long sheets of ...

Southport Boats plans to build more boats and more models ... Southport boats are built by layering fiberglass fabric on a mold and infusing it with a resin in a vacuum to make the composite ...

which watches the boat-building process and carefully examines the quality of materials used. During the fiberglass hull-making process, workers repeatedly wax the gigantic molds for the hulls ...

Love inspired Thayer to build his first boat in the early 1960s ... He begins by constructing a plug or form to mold the fiberglass around. “That’s really the key — the plug has got ...

“We build our boats to the direct specifications ... The amalgamation of materials sits in the mold for 10 days — longer than for most other fiberglass hull manufacturers, Caballero says.