An eight meter sport cruiser ended on top its Ford towing truck during its journey in Colchester, Vermont on the morning of Sunday 26 May. The causes of the incident are that this sport cruiser was not strapped to its trailer, with speed and a hard break leading us to this scene. An open canopy during road transport also does not help much during road transportation. No one was injured in this collision with the damage not looking too serious considering all with an exception to the stern drive. Such incidents seem to be very common in North America recently, although usually it involves smaller boats.
The sport cruiser in this accident is a Glastron GS 279 as produced between 2002 and 2008. The GS 279 was Glastron's flagship at launch, replaced by the GS 289 in 2009.
Glastron was founded in 1956 at Austin Texas, with the company changing ownership in 1987 to Genmar and then relocated to Minnesota, and since 2014 is owned by Beneteau Groupe. Glastron is also famous for building the Batboat for the 1966 Batman movie and then used in the TV series, and then for its boats appearing in the James Bond films Live and Let Die, and Moonraker.
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