May 29, 2013. The book is Fiberglass Boats, Construction and Maintenance, a Yachting book by Boughton Cobb, Jr, published in 1965. The author dedicates all of Chapter 12 (Chapter 13 in later editions) to a case study of fiberglass repair and rebuilding systems, and a restoration project successfully carried out by an amateur. The amateur was a Jim Caulkins from Darien, Connecticut, and the boat was Greyling.

DFI Doug Berg, recognizing the need to have the webmaster's library sent in a copy of this book. This book was a one of the first to address the unique, at that time, construction and maintenance issues involving fiberglass boats. This particular copy was the 3rd edition, published in 1969. All of Chapter 13, titled A large Hole in a Small Boat dealt with the restoration of Greyling.

Book Cover	1st Page (of 15 pages), Chapter 13

The book (used, good condition, paperback) was available for $3, plus postage, on Amazon.com

Greyling's page has a number of excerpts from the book. Here we are concentrating on pages 126, 127 and 128 which describe changes that were made to Greyling that, 50 years later, would help us identify her as Jerry Slaughter's Rowdy in San Antonio, Texas.

 

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