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OT: I have a small runabout from the '50,s

Posted By: Bob, '74 Venture 25 Sweet Sue, San Mateo FL
Date: 9/18/09 5:03p.m.

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with nothing inside. The old-style fiberglass hull is beautiful, it has FINS! I want to fix it up, not really RESTORE it necessarily. But I would like it to look appropriate. It apparently had a bench seat aft and a pass-through to two seats foreward. Can anyone help me find some pictures of what runabouts looked like ,way back then? I have the plexiglass windshield but it is crazed, anyone know where I can have a replacement made? I can get plexi at Aircraft Spruce and make up an oven with two barrels and a heat gun after making a mold from....yeah, sure.....

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OT: I have a small runabout from the '50,s -- Bob, '74 Venture 25 Sweet Sue, San Mateo FL -- 9/18/09 5:03p.m.

Try fiberglassics.com -- Jack Jackson,ODay 22, Southport NC -- 9/18/09 5:15p.m.

I tried, and was blocked -- Bob, '74 Venture 25 Sweet Sue, San Mateo FL -- 9/18/09 6:46p.m.

I couldn't get on the site either -- Jack Jackson,ODay 22, Southport NC -- 9/19/09 4:37a.m.

I got some plastic lens cleaner from walmart -- Ron, KAILANI Mac 26X, Kansas -- 9/18/09 9:25p.m.

Ron, do you remember -- John M -- 9/18/09 10:15p.m.

Nu Finish Scratch Doctor -- Ron, KAILANI, Mac26X, Kansas -- 9/19/09 5:27a.m.

Got it. Thanks -- John M -- 9/19/09 11:06a.m.

boat -- mike haney v2-22 -- 9/19/09 2:34a.m.

Check New York Times archives -- Bob Zolczer -- 9/19/09 4:34a.m.

I LIKE IT!!! Try Maguires Plastic detailer and also the Cleaner / Polish... -- Sam Hunter, Mac 26S, "Dragonfly", Atlanta & Pensacola -- 9/19/09 8:01a.m.

Bears a vauge resemblance to my Dad's old boat -- Larry L, Oday DS3, Rinker V170, Fredonia WI -- 9/20/09 5:22a.m.

Thanks all, I know stinkboats aren't appropriate -- Bob, '74 Venture 25 Sweet Sue, San Mateo FL -- 9/20/09 8:15p.m.

Boats are boats are boats... -- Larry L, Oday DS3, Rinker V170, Fredonia WI -- 9/21/09 9:56a.m.

Yep. Lots of nifty boats in the world; not all of 'em are sailboats -- Rachel -- 9/21/09 10:30a.m.

And, as we all know, there IS no Off-Topic here! -- Rachel -- 9/21/09 10:31a.m.

I love sailboats... -- Jim B., Out and About -- 9/21/09 5:14p.m.

Sweet looking bat-boat! -- DavidF. Catalina22 & Dolphin Sr, Lake Lavon, Texas -- 9/21/09 5:32p.m.

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