Sintes Fiberglass Designs specializes in designing fiberglass boats using the C-Flex construction method. Sintes
Fiberglass Designs also provides fiberglass tooling (plug and molds) for building production fiberglass boats.
David
grew up in the Bucktown neighborhood of Metairie, Louisiana. Since the age of nine, David Sintes has worked in his family’s
boatyard doing wood repair, ship maintenance, etc. where his dad and grandfather also built boats. In 1965, he
joined the United States Marine Corp. He retired and is a 100% disabled American Veteran due to injuries received in the Vietnam
War.
He returned back to his family’s boatyard in 1968 doing electrical, plumbing,
joinery (woodworking), painting and varnishing. David started his own business in 1969. From then to the present day
he has designed, built and helped others to build over 600 boats.
It was the introduction of the C-Flex
building method in which David saw the advantages of building fiberglass boats. He designed
and built his first C-Flex boat in 1972. This boat was the first in a series of designs that David Sintes would
develop over the years.
The C-Flex method did away with the need for expensive molds and allowed one-off designs
to be built in fiberglass. Sintes developed a boat building system based on C-Flex construction. A boat
is custom designed and the customer can either build his own boat or have it built by one of the many boat builders that
Sintes works with. From Dave's designs, Sintes Fiberglass Designs provides a completed set of frames.
This system is a fast and cost effective way to build. A 42 foot hull only took 8 days to complete using Dave's
system.
Sintes Fiberglass Designs has provide designes to many boat builders to include:
Bollinger Shipyards
Carman Boats
Halter Yachts
Harry White Boats
Layton Custom Boat Works
Newton Boats
Sintes
Fiberglass Designs was located at West End park on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain until Hurricane Katrina. Dave has
moved his operations to Kenner for now and hopes some day to return to his original location.
