Glastron

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Glastron is a boat manufacturing company and was one of the first manufacturers of fiberglass boats. Glastron is owned by Rec Boat Holdings, a subsidiary of Groupe Beneteau.

Bob Hammond, Bill Gaston, Bob Shoop, and Guy Woodard founded the company on October 14, 1956, in Austin, Texas. It was sold to Genmar Holdings in the 1990s and manufacturing was moved to Minnesota.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} Glastron is known for its boat hull design innovations, including the Aqualift and "SSV" hull designs, the latter of which is still in use today.

Glastron's "Glastonbury" boats were featured in the James Bond films Live and Let Die and Moonraker. For Live and Let Die, a boat chase was filmed in Louisiana around the Irish Bayou area.{{cite video|title=Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary – Live and Let Die Ultimate Edition, Disc 2|publisher=MGM/UA Home Video|year=1973|asin=B000LY209E|medium=DVD}} Twenty-six boats were built by Glastron for the film, of which seventeen were destroyed during rehearsals.{{cite news| url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2003539511_nwwboatshow25.html | work=The Seattle Times | title=Big, gaudy and Bond-like, Seattle Boat Show exhibit cuts to the chase | first=Eric | last=Sorensen | date=25 January 2007}} The speedboat jump scene over the bayou, filmed with the assistance of a specially-constructed ramp, unintentionally set a Guinness World Record at the time with {{convert|110|ft|m}} cleared. The waves created by the impact caused the following boat to flip over.{{cite video|title=Inside Live and Let Die: Live and Let Die Ultimate Edition, Disc 2|publisher=MGM/UA Home Video|year=2000|asin=B000LY209E|medium=DVD}} Jaws 3 also features several boats with the brand name on the sides.