Aluminium spars are usually associated with fibreglass boats, although one can still find a few early fibreglass hulled yachts that were equipped with wooden spars.

A boatman takes me across in a fibreglass boat donated after the tsunami.

The fibreglass boat is the first of its kind in England and is being tested by coastguards in the Thames district.

Most fibreglass boats are currently made in an open mold, with fibreglass and resin applied by hand (hand-lay-up method).

Our vessel was hardly luxurious: a 19ft fibreglass boat, barely more than a canoe, scruffy with rough repairs.

Light fibreglass boats were used for suicide bomber attacks.

Renato nodded in agreement then put his hands over the edge of the big fibreglass boat and pulled himself in.

By mid 1965, Linge and Ferner were satisfied enough with their work to manufacture the moulds needed for producing complete fibreglass boats.

One scheme that Levitt and Dubner endorse features a fleet of fibreglass boats equipped with machines that would increase the cloud cover over the oceans.

Today the fibreglass boat has replaced the clinker or wooden boat on account of easy maintenance etc. and trailers have replaced the winching system.