Then, he said, "George that is what we are going to build at that old Shell Pumping Station in Richland." I had no idea what a Shell Pumping Station was and I had never heard of Richland, Missouri. My dad commented that he could make an aluminum boat that would plane better than that. Schneider and I were standing on the dock at Hyde-Away-Cove at the Lake of the Ozarks watching a Lone Star crossing the lake. In the summer of 1952 my father, Gordon L. Here's how the son of the founder explained it: Good boats as long as you stay on your seat, they aren't very nice to get up and move around in. They were the ORIGINAL fishing boats here at Lake O, every resort had a fleet of them, and there are still alot of them around. The wood on the seats is another story, replaced plenty of those. Now that I think about it I don't think I ever had to replace the transom wood in one, and I've had some from the late '50's which I think were the 1st or second year of production (earlier ones were Appleby). Yessir, I've probably had between 20-30 of them over the years (taken in on trade) and I've never had to scrap one.
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