History

D-Day, the 6th of June, 1944. The United States and its allies launch the largest amphibious attack in the history of the world, assaulting the

Folks who went to the Florida State Fair in Tampa back in 1938 might have seen a couple of local high school boys standing on

A bright red outboard engine mounted on the stern of a fiberglass dinghy has these two youngsters enthralled; for them, it’s the stuff that dreams

In the 1960s, the marine engine and equipment conglomerate OMC—known best for its outboard engines—formed a boating division. It would produce and market fiberglass pleasure

An old Madison Avenue advertising maxim says that to sell the steak, you sell the sizzle. Don’t promote Grade-A qualities or lean and aged beef;

In the early 1960s, when some boatbuilders still worked with wooden plank-on-frame builds, others began experimenting with everything from cold-molded plywood to fiberglass. The Richardson