By Terry Fiest, Chairman Sunnyland Antique Boat Festival Photos provided by Maggi and Rob Cassell, and Pete DeVito The 41st Annual Sunnyland Antique Boat Festival, at Wooten Park on Lake Dora in the City of Tavares, had four days of beautiful Florida weather and a record crowd. This year, “The Festival of Speed Event” joined…
From the NC Coastal And Piedmont Chapter Our ACBS Chapter, North Carolina Coastal & Piedmont, provides scholarships to students in the Cape Fear Community College’s (CCFC) Boat Building Program. We also encourage our members to support their annual boat show held at their campus in Wilmington, NC. Unfortunately, they have not been able to hold…
By Judy Hills, NC Coastal & Piedmont Chapter member Here is an idea from the recent Cape Fear Boat Show for how to involve families at a boat show. A father and son both had Simmons Sea Skiffs entered in the show, and they had each made a small replica fashioned like a wagon. They…
Sunnyland is such a diverse show, it has all types of vintage happening! There are the antique runabouts, classic glass and metal boats, inboards and OUTBOARDS! Here are a few images of the outboard motors and boats on display this weekend at the Festival. Thank you to the Florida Chapter of the Antique Outboard Motor…
It is officially the start of the boating season! And we are so happy to be back in sunny Tavares, Florida, with our friends at the Sunnyland Antique Boat Festival! Our ACBS long-weekend in Tavares began with a Chapter Round Table and Board of Directors meeting on Thursday. We are so glad so many people…
By Mark and Heather Manes, NorCal Tahoe ACBS Chapter members It 1989, OMC corporation had just acquired Chris-Craft out of bankrupcy and they were looking for a way to turn the company around. Chris Smith (grandson of the original founder) had stayed in Holland, Michigan, and continued to work with Grand Craft boats. Chris had an idea…
Since in his story, Mark Manes referenced being inspired to find a new boat after taking a ride with Lew Dobbins in Redhawk, we thought it was only fitting to repost these images from the 2016 International Show in Lake Tahoe. Redhawk is ready for a Sunday picnic cruise! Redhawk is a 1929 Chris-Craft…
by John Calhoun member of the Water Wonderland chapter I purchased a basket case hull of a 1940 Chris-Craft Deluxe Runabout (barrelback) in 2006 after searching for a respectable project where I could utilize a Chris- Craft KBL131 hp triple carb engine that I owned. I was alerted to a gray boat that was in…
An Invite from The Sunnyland Chapter Com’ on down! Winter is over in Florida and the years’ first and biggest boat show of them all is about to start. The Show starts Friday, March 25 and ends at noon Sunday, March 27, 1922. The Sunnyland Antique Boat Festival is in its 41st…
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter invites you to attend the Atlantic Boat Show this week! The Atlantic Boat Show, one of the largest indoor shows in the Mid-Atlantic region, opens Wednesday March 2nd and runs through Sunday March 6th. The ACBS Mid-Atlantic Chapter will once again display an assortment of classic and local boats, as well as…
By John Vorhies, North Coast Ohio chapter The week before the Huron Annual meeting/show in September of 2018 the 1939 Chris-Craft triple we had owned for 27 years was sold. We surely enjoyed the many show and events that we participated in with Sashay. She was certainly a beautiful preservation piece. We found ourselves using…
By Chris Bullen, Toronto Chapter I’m inviting ACBS members to join us in March for a great new series on wooden boats. Last summer, the Muskoka Steamship and Discovery Centre gathered some volunteers, including ACBS Toronto Chapter members, each with a helpful skill to go around the Muskoka Lakes to film the unique boats in…