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I probably have the smallest Thompson still in use... http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8260/8809650062_4999d4226e.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8118/8809650134_5d332592f6.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2875/8809650218_1074e7ea78.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5334/8809650286_836afacc56.jpg ht...

The "plastic" term was used by Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co. to describe their canvas filler. It was not fiberglass or a resin. It was a traditional canvas dope. Maybe they used some "modern" junk in the filler. But it definately was not what we today would consider fiberglass or...

Cute little dinghy. You could canvas over the fiberglass. I saw a guy do this to an Old Town canoe once that had been glassed. Block sand the fiberglass smooth if it needs it and glue down the canvas. Sure it's not exactly a "pure restoration" but buy the time you paint the canvas and put...

Hull IDs were not placed on Thompson boats until after World War II, circa 1946. So any boat built prior to that time will not have a hull ID. If it truly was a West Sytem fiberglass put on the hull, you will most likely destroy the wood trying to get it off. Maybe the company can give you some adv...

An 8 ft. DINGY was show in the brochures from 1934 to 1942. Canvas covered or lapstrake. So it is probably the canvas covered one. Andreas Thanks Andreas! Any thoughts on a hull ID number location? Didn't see one right away when I did "triage" the boat this morning. I'd like to have her b...

I found a fellow locally who was trying to sell some old motors and this nice little Thompson dinghy. Got everything fairly inexpensively...but what did I get? The "dink" has the aluminum Thompson Pestigo, WI tag...so I know that it is a Thompson. It has almost all the parts still with it ...

For the life of me when the time came to name our 1955 Feather Craft Vagabond, I struggled yet again. I wanted a jazz name. One night while in bed reading through the entire Count Basie library of songs from a large stack of CD's and records, my wife who was trying to read became "less than ena...

As I am a jazz fan and trombonist, I was going to name our 14" TVT "Tommy Dorsal" as a play on the Thompson theme and a tip of the "slide" to Tommy Dorsey. However, when the proof was sent to me from the sign shop it looked like "TAMMY DORSAL". I told my wife...no ...

Nice job! makes me want to restore my '57 Aniv 35HP .... I AM however looking for the Javelin script on the front, so if any of those guys you dealt with have it, let me know! :) I would post your needs on the free Webvertize scetion of the AMOCI antique outboard website. That's where I came up wit...

Here is a link to my blog and my finished Johnson Javelin RJE-18E. I got the chrome back this week and was very happy with the outcome.

http://conductorjonz.wordpress.com/2009 ... elin-is-fi...

Now tomorrow to try it out in a 55 gallon lake!


Greg

I just rebuilt two 1956 Johnson 30hp, one being a nice Javelin. They run great. I put a lot of new parts in mine. Most of the new-old-stock parts I got were from Sea-Way Marine in Seattle.

I even put NOS oversized pistons in the Javelin. Sea-Way had everything I needed.

Good luck!

Greg