Need help sourcing fiberglass hull maker

[comfisherman]

I'll play the role of Debbie downer for just a bit as a few years ago I went up and down the west coast trying to find a glass company to build a hull that would work for a project in mind. There were even existing molds that were "close enough" to work off. It was fairly hard to get anyone interested.

West coast fiberglass has consolidated a lot in the last 30 years and alloy is what most mess with. Those that still do glass projects in the 50 foot range have a fair deal of established product and a solid reason to not waver from it. You're in a setting like me where an inland fiberglass fabricator would probably be best but shipping would negate any savings. For whatever reason the mad scientist of the west coast build in alloy.

I'd hazard the best bet would to be to call fiber lay or composite one sales guys in the west coast and ask who does the craziest stuff still and go from there.

 

[Carlazzomark]

Schooner Creek Boat Works builds
Cats of that size already, most of their work is custom. They're located near Portland OR.

https://www.schoonercreek.com/

I wrote to them, but they said they could not provide a budgetary estimate.

 

[Carlazzomark]

Hoquiam shipyard seems semi pliable on the oddball projects and have the most bomber current production facility on the west coast that does out of the box projects. Dunno what tomco and laconner maritime are up to outside bay hulls but they are another outfit. Platypus would have probably been down back in the day but keep pretty busy doing mega $$$ projects and .gov stuff.

For a one off, glass is a tough sell, granted simple pontoons may be the only place male mold or one off would work easily. I'm semi between boat builds, wrapping up a long build before we do another slightly bigger. Glass and resin price increases are gonna hurt a bit that's for sure .

Thanks, I will check them out soon. I am pausing here for a week while I prep a boat for the summer.