1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

stainless52

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Hello all, im new here. I just picked up a 1952 stainless steel boat thats all original and came with the only engine to power this particular boat....a 1951 mercury comet 3.5 or 3.6. Anybody else have one of these boats?
Chris
 

Thalasso

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

Star Tank & Boat Co. (Starcraft) purchased the magnesium boat buildiing operation of Dow Chemical in 1949.
Many builders of metal boats used stainless steel. Some also used magnesium, such as Dow above and later Starcraft. Some used glavanizzed steel.


Found this

 
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robert graham

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

I've honestly never seen a stainless steel or magnesium boat....guess they'd be pretty expensive to build?....but last forever!....
 

stainless52

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

Thanks for info.....i understand that the starcraft stainless was a 52 thru 54 boat. Suprisingly lightweight for stainless!
 

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

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Bought one

Does it look like this?


 
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Thalasso

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

It looks like the one i posted
 

roscoe

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

It looks like the one i posted

Sorry, but your photos are not showing up.


We are seeing the Photobucket message that says : Sorry, the person moved or deleted this image."
 

thumpar

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

Sorry, but your photos are not showing up.


We are seeing the Photobucket message that says : Sorry, the person moved or deleted this image."
Same here.
 

jasoutside

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

Oh wow, that is really cool:joyous:

Congratulations on a totally awesome boat score and landing a piece of marine history, fantastic!

You ought to post this up over in the Starcraft section, the guys will love it over there:thumb:

Starcraft Boats
 

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

The stainless steel Starcrafts are the only boat I would consider polishing to a mirror finish. Good luck with it.
 

Thalasso

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Re: 1952 Starcraft stainless steel boat

I don't know where the pics went. They were there yesterday. I didn't delete them for sure

We will try it again




 
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