Mercury Through The Years...

**Baker343** · 04-05-2023, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by WaterZebra

In all of these years with how the tunnel boat loft lines have changed, I still continue to believe the Glastron Molinari had the best profile lines ever built. Kinda like the USAF XB-70 Valkyre. Yep, I am biased. I loved my GlasMoli 18 single. Would have been true joy to have owned and ran the 21 twin It's a shame that none of the GlasMolis have shown up at vintage events.

Love that the engine is neutral to negative trim and the driver is leaning forward. True leaders

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**WaterZebra** · 04-08-2023, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Baker343

Love that the engine is neutral to negative trim and the driver is leaning forward. True leaders

I never had any kind of trim gauge on my GlasMoli. My trim indicator was simple. If the forward slope of the nose was level, that was the limit. Anything more than that and you were headed for a blowover. It would kind of "lope" to tell you something was wrong rather than suddenly "lift" like a wooden pickle fork. To my knowledge, nobody ever barrel rolled a GlasMoli either. Gliding wide turns was the formula for track time. "Planting the boat" in a tight turn scrubbed off way too much speed. It would take 30% of the track to recover.

**2us70** · 04-08-2023, 10:04 AM

I was fortunate to have been able to test drive a couple of the GlasMolis. I found them to be very forgiving and predictable to drive. I would love to have been able to race one, especially in endurance racing.

**WaterZebra** · 04-08-2023, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by 2us70

I was fortunate to have been able to test drive a couple of the GlasMolis. I found them to be very forgiving and predictable to drive. I would love to have been able to race one, especially in endurance racing.

GlasMolis were like your parent's Chevy station wagon for the most part. Put it in "D" and sit back and cruise..............Joe Fielder said they made a couple of ultra light weight hulls. Glastron could have made a modest weight improvement by taking some of the layup weight out of that aft cowling. It weighed a ton and was way overbuilt. I'm surprised they didn't update the cowling and provide them to their clients? GlasMoli was one raceboat program that catered to both OMC and Merc customers.