My headscratcher - one for the gurus

[Myyke]

Here is a pic of my first boat purchase. the wife named her "the Mistress" as spent more time fixing it up than with her. lol

My tag says it is a Glasstrong of Canada, but i can't seem to find out age. The 1968 40hp johnson still runs great, only thing i had to buy was new control cable.
Got it for cheap and had to put less than $300 into the fixing it up, other than some time. i've updated to a bunk trailer that i converted from rollers since first photo.

HINdecoder can"t seem to find it either. would like to find out what i can about it.

 

[tpenfield]

Looks very 1960’s. The HIN numbers are a US Coast Guard thing, so Canadian boat manufacturers would not necessarily have to follow. However HIN did not come into existence until 1972.

There is an MIC code for Glasstrong on the USCG database - “ZGT”, and there is a thread or 2 here on IBoats asking similar questions.

maybe check the fiberglassics web site :noidea:

 

[Myyke]

Thankyou very much.

 

[southkogs]

A little bit HERE. Just about everything I tried wanted to tell me about Glastron boats, even Google corrected me

 

[Myyke]

Ya i know there doesn’t seem to be much info on it. Would be nice to find a history on it. It’s a nice little boat once i did a little fixing up on it.

 

[southkogs]

History on it probably kind of predictable: from the late 60s through the 80s small trailer boat manufacturers popped up all over the place. It was almost a "rage" to make a small outboard runabout, and so many people were doing it that many of the molds were nearly shared between manufacturers (some actually were). The majority of the makers couldn't financially survive all of the competition, and especially with the advent of sterndrive boats many of the manufacturers shuttered their plants and moved on.

With so many popping up and closing down, it's hard to find a complete history on the who, what and why for many of them.