How many times has someone said to you, “I learned to ski behind a boat just like that!”? Molly O’Dell, member of Northern California/Tahoe Chapter sent these pictures with the message, “I thought these were worth sharing of my dad’s family (George Morgan, also an ACBS member)! I need to continue the family tradition now…
Leading the Tuesday Tour of Vintage Boats today is No Way, a beautiful 1964 Chris Craft 20 ft Holiday owned by Carmen and Denise DeLeo, members of the Philadelphia and Penn NE/Harveys Lake Chapters. No Way is a “Classic” powered with a General Motors 283 engine. In the ACBS membership file, Carmen says, “No Way was delivered…
One of the take-aways from the ACBS Symposium delivered at the Sunnyland Boat Festival on March 23, 2018 was a laminated CHECK LIST FOR FIRST TIME OPERATION. This list was first compiled by Lou Rauh and is now shared by Brian Keen, President of Motor Boat Garage in Cincinnati, Ohio. CHECK LIST FOR FIRST TIME…
Story and Pictures by Rob Pryor After spending the summers at Normandy Beach NJ since 1955 and enjoying the use of the Barnegat Bay, my family and I decided it was time for a new boat. In January of 1965, we went to the New York Boat Show and found a 16’ Chris Craft Cavalier…
The Glacier Lakes Chapter is known within ACBS as the Chapter that hosted the 2017 International Boat Show in Racine, Wisconsin. Glacier Lakes Chapter is so much more! With nearly 200 members, mainly from the state of Wisconsin, this chapter holds several annual events. They exhibit at winter boat shows and have workshops. When this chapter was…
This photo of the 1959 Larson Thunderhawk Senior Inboard was taken at the Lake of the Ozarks in the summer of 2017. Owners are Ken and Robin Greger of Osage Beach, MO. This is the only Thunderhawk Senior Inboard known to have been built. The boat is 16 feet, powered by a Gray Marine in-line…
The Boating Season is officially OPEN! Hurricane Irma tried to wipe out the Festival Venue. But the Sunnyland ACBS members and the City of Tavares still put on a FANTASTIC party with over 100 boats and people galore – who brought boats or came to see the boats – and friends. Saturday was about the…
Picnic Day meant a boat trip through the Dora Canal. Cruising through the tropical canal is so awesome and the water was great all the way from Wooten Park to the picnic grounds. All eyes were peeled to spot the wonders of nature as we idled through the Dora Canal and Dead River to move…
It’s officially underway in Tavares, Florida. What is? It’s where the Antique and Classic Boat Society has its first quarterly Board of Directors meeting of 2018 and where many boaters get started on the boating season for the year. Today, Thursday, the ACBS Board of Directors met at Mission Inn in Howey-in-the-Hills, FL. The Executive…
Antique and Classic Boats get a lot of attention in the Midwest. Maybe it is because they are a little more rare where the lakes and rivers are further apart. Anyway, it is amazing how the owners of unique boats have found each other and joined together in the Heartland Classics Chapter of ACBS. Memberships in…
The March 20, 2018, Tuesday Tour of Vintage Boats begins with 1956 Chris Craft 25’ Express Cruiser named Take Two. Take Two was self-restored over a 10 year period. Owners Tom and Heidi Frye of East Grand Rapids, MI enjoy Take Two on the many lakes and rivers of the great state of Michigan. The photo…
What is the Antique and Classic Boat Society’s Mary Herwig Award? The Mary Herwig Award honors an individual at the International level who, through activities at the chapter level, has contributed broadly and in an outstanding manner toward enhancing and furthering the aims and objectives of the society. Their contribution could typically have been through…