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Plastic boats, which were dubious experiments only a few years ago, have become so popular that they accounted for 25% of all boats shown. Most notable use of the new materials was in the show's 50 sleek cruising sailboats. Biggest crowd pleaser: Coleman Boat's new fiberglass, 41-ft. Bounty II, designed by Phil Rhodes, which sleeps six and sells for $18,500, about half the price of a wooden-hull boat...
...understand this conflict, one must realize that through the ages the shape and form of the single scull have changed remarkably little. True, form time to time artisans have managed to make them thinner and lighter, and this year the boathouse has added a fiberglass shell. But the basic concept of rowing has not changed...
...Wood Jr., son of famed Speed-boater Gar Wood, had plans for a one-piece, leakproof fiberglass boat. But he does not expect to get into production till spring...
This unique chamber and its smaller replica in the Memorial Hall laboratory are rooms entirely without echoes which make possible the accurate measurement of sound so essential to scientific study of its effects on humans. Seven carloads of wedge-shaped fingers of fiberglass create an atmosphere which is literally out of this world, for in nature the only similar condition is found in the upper atmosphere...
With volunteer conscious objectors acting as guinea pigs, the electro-acoustic researchers developed a fiberglass sound-proofing for aircraft that climinated the nerve-shattering vibrations of flight...