Boats built between 1976 and 1994 are in the late classic classification. This striking 1983 Correct Craft Ski Nautique is a prime example of a Late Classic Boat. This 20-foot boat is powered by a 1983 Ford 351. She is owned by Bob and Barb Meimbresse, members of the Philadelphia Chapter. Antique Boats were built between…
By George Blosser member of Smith Mountain Lake chapter Photo Credit: Leigh Conrad The SML Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society recently held their annual spring workshop at the home/shop of Alan and Jean Frederick. Twenty-three members and their guest enjoyed presentations on matching stain colors, Plexiglas windshield restoration, installing pertronix ignition system…
By Leo Milleman member of the Jerry Dyhrkopp/Iowa Great Lakes chapter. Jane (my wife) and I grew up in Spencer, Iowa close to the Iowa Great Lakes in the Northwest part of the state. Jane’s parents had a summer home on Okoboji, a deep water blue glacial lake. Jane and I dated in high school…
By Gail Pisa member of the Niagara Frontier chapter “Classic ll” is a 19′ 1957 Chris Craft Capri, it was built at the Chris Craft Plant in Cadillac, Michigan and delivered to Quad City Marine in Davenport, Iowa. It was powered by a 6cyl 131 hp Chris Craft engine. From 1968-1973 this boat was in…
By Kevin Hogan member of Heartland Classics I found “Love Me Timber” in an ad in our Heartland Classics publication of Mahogany and Chrome. She needed a complete restoration…I mean total. She was ready for the burn pile. But, with about 1300 hours of time and sweat I brought her back to life. The “twist”…
By Rolland Clark, member of the Indian Lake chapter. I retired in 2008 after forty-five years of working. I estimated it would take three or four months to take care of things around our farm that I put off, well, until after I retired. With the farm to-do-list completed, boredom slowly settled in. I needed…
By John Bloch, member of the Mississippi Valley Chapter. I am in the boat repair business and some years ago I had several occasions to work on a small (by Hatteras’ standards) 1968 Hatteras 31-foot Sport Fisherman. The story that I know of the boat is that it came to the St. Louis, Missouri area…
By Bill Rathburn, member of the Bob Speltz Land O’ Lakes Chapter. Our 1967 Boston Whaler Nauset was purchased as a temporary stand-in for a 1963 Glasspar Seafair Sedan having its hull restored. The Nauset came from Duluth where she’d had a long and hard career fishing Lake Superior using the radio name Green River.…
By Nevin Bryant member of Inland Empire chapter Perhaps twenty years ago I was looking into buying a wooden boat to have at our cabin at Priest Lake, and decided I should check with my mother about the kind my father owned when they had a cabin on Murray Isle in the Thousand Islands just…
by Tom Kranz member of the Chesapeake Bay chapter The 37’ Egg Harbor Sportfisherman that would later be named “The Classic Egg” (she needed a few years on her yet), was delivered to its original owner in 1962 when its current owner, me, was 5 years old, in Northern Ohio for use on Lake Erie.…
By Jason Dunovant, Laker Weekly Don Smith loves being around old boats. He has made a hobby of it ever since retiring to Smith Mountain Lake in 1978. With the help of others, he has grown that passion into a local club and eventually a popular annual lake event. “The smell of them and the…
By Hank Why member of New England Chapter Three Antique Boat Groups in the New Hampshire Lakes Region have collaborated to provide opportunities for interested young wood workers to further their passion and boat building skills with scholarships to the Wooden Boat School in Brooklin, Maine. Selection is based on: 1) A demonstrated passion for…