This picture was taken at the Antique Boat Museum’s Vintage Race Boat Regatta on August 20th, 2016. What makes this interesting is both of these gentleman’s race boats were built over the same period 2013-2016, but worlds apart! Lady Shores by Keith Kipp in Canada and Marguarite by Peter Cavill in Australia. The boats are based…
The Manotick Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society is one of four Canadian Chapters. The “Manotick Classic Boat Club” was first organized in 1975 and became an official organization in 1976. This was about the same time that the Antique and Classic Boat Society was being organized at Lake George, NY to become…
This 1963 American Marine 65’ Custom Trawler is new to Bert Dodge, Hudson River Chapter. It was purchased from the Mystic Seaport Museum. Eldridge-McInnis Design. Bill Root, Sunnyland Chapter, sent this shot of the cover of a widely distributed Florida magazine featuring “Majestic”, the 1936 Chris Craft Custom Runabout belonging to Sunnyland Past President Guy…
Driftwood is a 19 foot 1956 Chris Craft Capri with a KLC engine. The picture was taken from a helicopter over Lake Anna, Virginia. Owners of Driftwood are Linda and Randy Krout shown here out for a cruise with daughter Brittany and her fiancée Rich Mack. A Wizard! This 1957 Wizard El Dorado is 19′ long and is…
A 1932 Chris Craft 21 ft 305 Runabout leads this week’s Tuesday Tour of Vintage Boats. Tuffy is at home in Skaneateles, New York, where this photo was taken in July of 2017. Tuffy is owned by Ed and Brenda Evans. Ed tells us that “Tuffy is a “he” ( named for my father in…
Manotick Boat Shop Tour included stops at six boat shops in one day. The Manotick Classic Boat Club’s Spring Shop tour was held April 23, 2016. We couldn’t have asked for better weather. The sun was out – still a bit cool, but that didn’t stop a crowd of about 30-35 people from coming out…