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Bill Tritt (August 29, 1917 - March 25, 2011) was an American yacht builder.[1][2]
He began working in Glass-reinforced plastic in 1948. He founded Glasspar Corporation in 1949[3] due to his keen interest in boats and cars and his belief in fiberglass as a material.
Before the World War II, he studied marine architecture and boat building.[4]
He worked for Douglas Aircraft's Production Planning and Illustration Departments during World War II, and by 1945 had built a number of catamaran sailboats. In 1947, John Green, a yachtsman friend, paid Tritt to design and build a racing sailboat in the twenty foot range. Fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP) seemed the logical construction material, and Otto Bayer of Wizard Boats was enlisted as laminator. The boat was named the Green Dolphin, and four were built. This was Tritt's introduction to FRP.[5]
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- ^ "Bill Tritt: Designer, Builder, Entrepreneur, and Fiberglass Visionary (1917-2011): Part 1 | Undiscovered Classics". 31 March 2011.
- ^ Hemmings Auto Club - Glasspar History Archived 2007-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bill Tritt Biography
- ^ History Paragraph two Archived 2007-03-13 at the Wayback Machine