WELCOME TO THE 43RD ANNUAL SUNNYLAND ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC BOAT FESTIVAL March 21-24, 2024 in Tavares, Florida Dear Fellow Boaters: It’s time to start thinking about the Sunnyland Antique and Classic Boat Festival and getting your boats ready for the first show of the 2024 Boating Season! Sunnyland offers a beautiful and varied collection…
by Neal & Jean Ganser members of the Big Sky chapter My son Quentin Ganser was doing well in mechanical engineering. However, being an active young man with a gift for working with his hands, he was not enthusiastic about life in front of a computer. Discovering the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in…
Are you getting excited for the 2024 Vintage Boat Week in Brainerd, Minnesota? This member spotlight features Andy Luikens, president of the host chapter and one of the many who are planning this year’s event! If you haven’t already, mark your calendars for September 8-14, 2024 and we’ll see you at Gull Lake! My passion…
By Wayne Mooers, Northern California/Lake Tahoe Chapter Madeleine Mount is the loving wife of the late Robert A. Mount, who passed in October 2020. As members of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe ACBS Chapter, they enjoyed 54 years of marriage, family, and boating smiles. They also, in 2015, opened Boatique Winery-joining their love of fine wines…
As we mentioned the other week, its is now Boat Show Season – Indoor, that is! We have have a couple of reports from the Western Canadian Chapter and Pacific Northwest Chapter…so go visit them in Vancouver and Seattle this weekend to check out the vintage (and new) boats on display! Vancouver Boat Show by…
By Ann Reinhart on behalf of Tim Mehrer, member of Pacific Northwest Chapter The Bellingham, Washington based Schooner Zodiac, designed by William Hand, was built in 1924 in East Boothbay, Maine for the Johnson & Johnson family. 127’ on deck,160’ overall, she spent most of her life as a San Francisco Bay Bar Pilot boat…
Photographer and Adirondack Chapter member, Kent O. Smith, Jr. of KAOS Imagery, is a friendly face behind the lens. “I sometimes think of myself as a Phloatographer,” he laughs as he balances precariously on the gunwale of a boat to get his shot. In this ACBS Member Profile Q&A we learn more about Kent, his…
By Bjorn Bakken, Bay State Chapter Indoor boat show season is upon us and Baystate Classic Boat Club was invited back to the New England Boat show for the first time since the pandemic. The promoter offered us a 60’ x 40’ booth at no cost and donated the carpeting as well. So we had…
by Brian Fogarty member of the Indian Lake Chapter (A note from ACBS Headquarters…this article originally ran in the WWW in April 2020, and is republished today for ACBS Member, Jerry Laufer, who shared some wonderful stories today about the boats he grew up on, including his family’s 1950’s 14-foot Wagemaker with a little 18hp…
Story and modern day photos by Chris Bullen, Toronto Chapter I have boated all over North America, and one thing that is very noticeable to someone who grew up in Muskoka is that other lakes allow very few boathouses to be built. Boathouses have been on Muskoka since 1868, about as long as we have…
By Roberta Hegy, Glacier Lakes Chapter All my life I have been a hands-on person. I was drafted into the crafts by my father who needed an extra hand and really enjoyed working with him. He taught me many skills and those interests later developed to become a way of life and a good living.…
By John Young, Water Wonderland Chapter I’m John Young and have been a member of ACBS for many years, and boats have long been a part of my life. I have two wooden boats, a 1958 Lyman 16.5ft outboard with a 1958 Johnson 35hp and a 1953 Chris-Craft 17ft Special Sportsman with a 1959 Chris-Craft…