Excited to find this site on the net. We are the proud owners of a 1959 Lone Star 14' runabout. I believe it may be a 'Newport' model. It's an interesting story, I think, how we got involved with these classic, vintage fiberglass boats from the golden era of design. (was design and style ever better than in the fifties?!) I was playing a gig in a local beach bar down in Englewood, Florida back in the late 80's. It was probably 1988. The drummer in my band, John, lived directly accross the street from the beach bar. His rental cottage was on a canal that led to Lemon Bay. Behind his cottage was an abandoned derilect boat that had been given to him. So this fateful evening were on break and sitting at the bar having a beer when John starts telling me about this boat. We borrow a pen from the bartender and John proceeds to draw a rough sketch of this winged boat. I was interested enough, based on the decription, to come down and take a look the next day. What I didn't realize at the time was that John was really lobbying hard for me to actually buy this boat from him for $200.00 because he was tight on rent money. (musicians remember - 'what do you call a drummer without a girlfriend......homeless') My wife and I show up the following day and stroll around to the back of the cottage and out onto the dock and here she sits, half sunk, alligator hide, rotten upholstery, etc. ....just a pitiful sight. Having never seen a boat quite like her I was amused by her vintage charm, but I told John there was no way we wanted to get involved with something that far gone. Well, that's when the moaning and pleading began about how John was certain that we'd want this old Lone Star and he had, in his mind, already put the money in the bank. Almost as a gesture of charity, we finally submitted and agreed to take the boat. After getting her to our home we had a decision to make. We could either take her straight to the landfill or venture into a very involved restoration project. We're cerainly glad we chose the latter and now we are hooked. We named her 'Nadine'. We found a 1963 Evinrude 40 'Big Twin' and put that on the transom for power.