Hello everyone! I am new here at iboats.com. I just got a 16' 1981 Glassmaster Playmate trihull a few weeks ago. I traded my old Stihl chainsaw and Echo leaf blower for the boat on the 1981 Tennessee trailer that it originally came on. As far as I can tell the boat was still all original and seems to be in very good shape other than the vinyl and seats which all need to be removed and replaced. I even found all of the original paperwork in the glove box when I opened it! Since this is my first boat, I'm sure that it is going to be an exciting and challenging learning process, and that I'll be returning to this site quite often to take in the wealth of information that is contained here.
So far I've been mainly working on getting the trailer in good shape. I've added the jack seen in the pictures, repacked the bearings, and replaced the safety chains. And tomorrow I'm planning to get new tires on it (since the ones currently mounted have the worse case of dry rot I've ever seen) and working on getting the lights in working order. Then I have to remove the boat from the trailer since I'm making a 4 hour trip on Saturday to pick up another boat (a '73 Thundercraft 15' Runabout) that I won on ebay with the '79 Evinrude 70 hp motor that I was bidding on for the Glassmaster.
As you can see in the pictures, I've already removed the seats since when I tugged on one of the back-to-back seats to see what it looked like when laid down it literally ripped out in my hand. I also removed the seats and backrests in the bow since they were in equally bad shape and am planning to replace them with a front deck with a single swivel seat for fishing (since it will be much less costly than replacing the seats and vinyl). Anyway, here is the links to my pic.'s since I don't know how to put them on here (hope it works). Good to be here on iboats! I can't wait to actually take it out on the lake for the first time and see what it can do!
http://www.freewebs.com/hagadones/apps/photos/album?albumid=5818279
