Here’s a short story about young Fleur growing up with GILFLITE !
Born into the GILFLITE Cult in W.A. with the face of an Angel and the personality of a Star, wearing a life jacket and ready to ‘learn to ski’ …… We introduce Miss Fleur and her young brother who recently called into H.Q. after travelling the long journey from WA to Vic, across the Nullarbour plains to say ‘Gidday’ to us people behind the scenes at GILFLITE in Melbourne (Vic) and pay homage to their beloved GILFLITE Boat.
While her Dad talked to my Dad in the office, I was delighted to make Miss Fleurs acquaintance and attempted to render her visit as interesting as possible. In doing so, I stuck a ‘G’ badge on her lovely sun hat that her Mum (who was out taking advantage of Melbourne’s awesome shopping precincts), had instructed her to wear!
Unsure of removing her lovely sun hat for the gluing on of the (now famous) GILFLITE ‘G’ I assured her that all would be fine. After all, her Mum was in Melbourne SHOPPING! and her Dad was in the GILFLITE HQ main office talking BOATS with the bloke who knows best, I assured young Fleur that we could pretty much do what ever we wanted.
Anyway, long story short ……. my new friend Fleur was thrilled with her lovely sun hats make over (or GILFLITE upgrade, as I rightfully should probably call it). She got the approval from her Dad (who affectionately had her little brother secured in his arms in a way of preventing the toddler from further ransacking HQ – a boat joint is pure utopia for blokes of all ages 😉 … and off they went on their merry way. To be precise, their ‘merry way’ just happened to be a trip touring around Oz, where Miss Fleur presented her lovely ‘G’ sun hat under one of Australia’s significant land marks, the note-worthy Sydney Harbour Bridge. (As pictured).
Several months later I received an email from Fleurs Dad reporting that the ‘G’ badge had remained in tact on Miss Fleurs lovely sun hat and that now her cute little brother “wanted one”. Which I have since posted over to the GILFLITE family in WA.
The End
Story written and published by GILLGIRL promotions !
ABOVE – July 2025: UPDATE: Here’s Fleur: 12 months later: No Fear of the Cold (pic taken in W.A.) On the knee board behind her Dad’s recently purchased (2nd hand) GILFLITE Shortline – makin’ him proud!!
And still wearing her G Cap
BELOW – November 2025: Fleur Update ……..Here’s young Fleur proudly modelling her Dad’s new boat, the ‘GILFLITE Shortline 190’ known as ‘TOPFLITE’ and sporting plenty of sunblock on her cute little face. And still wearing her G Cap!! 🙂
