First years and makers of 18' bowriders with no wood construction.fiberglass stringers and floor?

Question

First years and makers of 18' bowriders with no wood construction.fiberglass stringers and floor?

Answer 1

I know Winner boats built boats like this in 1972, in Tenn.  There were others who used no "wood", but I'm unsure of dates.

Answer 2

The first fiberglass boat I owned was a Viksund 34 built for rough sea conditions.  It was hand layed up fiberglass... not shot from a chopper gun... and the hull was a thick as the wooden equivalent because in 1972 they thought hulls had to be as thick with the new building material, fiberglass, as the old wooden hulls.

The boat was built in Norway by a builder who had been building wooden Pilot Cutters for 100 years or so.  The story goes that, when he decided to switch to fiberglass from wood, he built a hull on the same mold my boat was built from and then had it halled up the cliff on the side of the Fjord and, will all the commercial fishermen, river and ocean pilots and tons of dignitaries looking on... he cut the line holding it and let it FALL about 500 feet into the water... the boat made it and he made a fortune producing those boats in all kinds of configurations after that... and is STILL building them today.  His boats are all Det Nordske Veritas A+ certified and Lloyds Certified A1

Answer 3

Exact year unknown, but it was Late 1970's when they first started using molds and chopper guns to lay up hulls without wood stringers.