TOPIC: new and need some help w/ identify

hello all, i am new here dont flame me to hard if i didnt post in correct section. im 38 years old and have decided after many years that i want to resore a classic fiberglass boat. figure its easier w/ a fiberglass than a wood for my first project. i am a manufaturing engineer in the oil and gas industry in Houston TX.

i found an old boat that i have yet to identify. old lady on site says its a 1950's roy rogers tri sonic....... she insisted and said she still has title and that the trailer was the original w/ the boat that belonged to her father.

please help me identify as i only have these pictures

another picture

last one, i only have these 3 no so good pictures......any help would be more than great

also found a 1957? lone star ? what boat would be better to resore? and why? sorry im asking alot of questions, i have alot to learn here and am not expection overnight results.....this will be a long term comitmint. would like help identifing the actual make/model of lone star as well

lone star

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Actor Roy Rogers was involved with Yellow Jacket Boat company. They were built at Denison, TX.

What you show in the pictures looks like a Glass Magic Nomad. Glass Magic Boats was located at Fort Worth, TX. Look in the "Clasic Library" section here on this site for old brochures, etc.... Bill Raschke had a US patent on that boat.

WesCraft Boats of Bazine, KS may have purchased the mold/tooling and rights to this model in the early 1960s when Glass Magic closed shop.

Andreas

thank you very much, ill look now i know where to start at least

The Lone Star would certainly be a more multi-functional boat. The other one will be pretty limited in the types of waters it can navigate and the number of people it can haul.

Picture which one would be better for taking a picnic with the family or water skiing or for use as a fishing platform.

Andreas

i could not agree more, i will go and see if i can pick up the lone star for a fair price. $500 for boat and trailer sound about right? no cracks and transom appears to be good actually. thanks for the help. looking for ward to a full write up in near future,this will be a part time project that will take a long time im sure.

great info here on this site

I really like the Lone Star- They've got cool lines, and cool FINS.

Try to get it even cheaper- You might be surprised what you can get it for!

I agree with Andgott. Looks to be a homemade trailer under the Lone Star- not worth more than the scrap value. Also, the boat looks to be missing most of its deck hardware. On the plus side, the windshield looks very restorable.

I am no expert but I would think without hardware and no motor it be a $100 max shell? thats just my opinion.

I also like the Lonestar. I agree with Andgott, I'll bet you can get it for less.

i also agree,i like the look of the lonestar,check the transom and floor.
and like the others said you should be able to get it cheaper then 500.00,good luck with it,john

That first boat kinda looks like a late 60's Ouachita fishing/flats boat.

First one looks like a layout boat for duck hunting.

I dont think it's a Glass Magic. Ive got two Nomads and they have emblems like in my avatar.

hardhead,

i'm about 99% sure that the old bassboat is a TX-made SKEETER or a close COPY of a SKEETER. - i had one that looked just like it in forest green in the early '60s w/Big Twin Johnson.
(look under the side decks for a dataplate - mine was on the port side, about 1/3 forward of the transom.)

IF it's a SKEETER, they are UNSINKABLE (SKEETER used to take one of their hulls & cut it into pieces with a chainsaw & the pieces would float.= good advertizing gimmick.) & excellent bayou boats.

yours, satx

looks more like a skeeter to me but there were several copys of that design....doesn't look much like a lone star to me....more like a copy of a red fish, but not a red fish either...don't know what it is john

Its closer to a Glass Magic than a Skeeter but I dont think it is either. Do you have a pic of the logo on the side near the back?

Your Skeeter looking boat is a Glassmagic and was built by William Raschke of Ft Worth, and I have a copy of the patent if someone wants it, shows all the drawings.
Application was May 13, 1957 and was patent issued on Feb 26, 1960
The hustler boat was built in Louisiana and was a copy of the Skeeter boat.
The first bass boat was built by Holmes A Thurmond in Louisiana in 1948, and I have a copy of that patent and lots of pic of the first wood Skeeter he built. I am building a Balsa wood model of that 1948 boat now.
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Also, the wood Skeeter was only from 1948 to 1960, then Stemco from Longview Texas bought them out and started making the fiberglass Skeeters.
see pic below.

satx78247 wrote:

hardhead,

i'm about 99% sure that the old bassboat is a TX-made SKEETER or a close COPY of a SKEETER. - i had one that looked just like it in forest green in the early '60s w/Big Twin Johnson.
(look under the side decks for a dataplate - mine was on the port side, about 1/3 forward of the transom.)

IF it's a SKEETER, they are UNSINKABLE (SKEETER used to take one of their hulls & cut it into pieces with a chainsaw & the pieces would float.= good advertizing gimmick.) & excellent bayou boats.

yours, satx

Your probably thinking about the Boston Whaler, it was cut in half for the un-sinkable advertising pic.

The cut it up with a chainsaw was Ranger
they chopped out 40% of the hull and hammered it up onto plane

moparlvr4406 wrote:

The cut it up with a chainsaw was Ranger
they chopped out 40% of the hull and hammered it up onto plane

Ranger may have done it also, but Boston Whaler has a video of their boat, the un-sinkables. I have had three of their boats and have seen the ads on the Un-Sinkable boat when I was a Whaler club Member.

Go to Google and key in Boston whaler the un-sinkable to see the videos

wood skeeter,

WELCOME ABOARD!

I grew up about 35 miles from Longview and never even heard of a wooden skeeter.

I loved my dark green (i think 60 or 61) Longview-made boat w/BT for Caddo Lake & Lake of the Pines hunting/fishing.

I have to ask: HOW MANY wooden Skeeters were built? How many are believed to be LEFT?

yours, satx

I remember seeing that Ranger add.

satx78247 wrote:

wood skeeter,

WELCOME ABOARD!

I grew up about 35 miles from Longview and never even heard of a wooden skeeter.

I loved my dark green (i think 60 or 61) Longview-made boat w/BT for Caddo Lake & Lake of the Pines hunting/fishing.

I have to ask: HOW MANY wooden Skeeters were built? How many are believed to be LEFT?

yours, satx

If you will send me your email address I will lots of info and pics of the wood Skeeter. The first was built in La. by Holmes Thurmond in Shreveport in 1948. He owned Skeeter boat co.until approx 1960, then he sold it to Stemco in Longview in I believe in 1961. In about 1961 or 1962 they built the first fiberglass Skeeter.

wood skeeter,

THANKS. Email sent.

yours, tex

satx78247 wrote:

wood skeeter,

THANKS. Email sent.

yours, tex

A bunch of pics of the wood Skeeter were sent on Saturday the 15h, thanx.

thompsonboat wrote:

Actor Roy Rogers was involved with Yellow Jacket Boat company. They were built at Denison, TX.

What you show in the pictures looks like a Glass Magic Nomad. Glass Magic Boats was located at Fort Worth, TX. Look in the "Clasic Library" section here on this site for old brochures, etc.... Bill Raschke had a US patent on that boat.

WesCraft Boats of Bazine, KS may have purchased the mold/tooling and rights to this model in the early 1960s when Glass Magic closed shop.

Andreas

I have a copy of Raschke's patent with his drawings if someone wants it, thanx,

wood skeeter,

SORRY but I received NO photographs of a boat of any sort.

yours, satx

satx78247 wrote:

wood skeeter,

SORRY but I received NO photographs of a boat of any sort.

yours, satx

I sent approx 25 pics to the email address you sent me yesterday, please send it again, and I will try again, thanx

wood skeeter,

DONE

THANKS, satx

Check your SPAM FOLDER, they may they are all there because I am getting your emails.

Check your SPAM FOLDER, they may they are all there because I am getting your emails.

Maybe this site is blocking my emails to you, because I now have sent over 30 emails to you and your not getting them because I have noticed in my sent folder it has
satx78247 @ fiberglassics.com in front of your personal email address, sorta strange this is happening!
Maybe I don't know but maybe you have some messages in your message center on here, I'm guessing at this point.
But I do know I have sent over 30 pics to you now TWICE.

wood skeeter,

I'll go look now - had to do a "mission of mercy" last night & just got up.

yours, satx

Glad you received all the pics, thanx.