Silver Line Boats or Silverline Boats was formed in 1959 in
Moorhead,
Minnesota
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, United States. They sold medium-sized
motorboat
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Some motorboats are fitted with inboard motor, inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion ...
s made of
fiberglass
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. They also built and sold fiberglass sailboats.
For the next twenty years, the company built thousands of
boat
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Small boats are typically found on i ...
s and sold them around the world. First, the name was spelled Silver Line, was later changed to Silverline. Silver Line also tried manufacturing
snowmobile
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s, but the sales didn't take off very well. The factory was closed in 1980 and the name has since gone to a new boat company, Internautic Marine Group.
Boats
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Dolphin 15 Senior
The Dolphin 15 Senior, sometimes referred to as just the Dolphin Senior, is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by brothers Glenn Corcoran and Murray Corcoran and first built in 1964.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats ...
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Dolphin 17
The Dolphin 17 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Glenn Corcoran and Murray Corcoran and first built in 1970.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 80-81. Houghton M ...
References
External links
Classic Silver Line BoatsInternautic Marine Group - Silverline Boats
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