by Mark Kiefaber member of the Chesapeake Bay chapter I have wanted a Gar Wood “speedboat” (that is how my mother always referred to them) since I was a little kid. I must have heard her story about her father’s Gar Wood more than 20 times. She was about sixteen years old (born in 1921)…
by John Macdonald member of the Sunnyland chapter I found the boat in Montreal, Canada and did a full 100% restoration at Strouts Point Wharf in South Freeport, Maine. The boat is currently in “Palm Beach” condition and maintained by Snead Island Boat Works , Palmetto, Florida. I kept to the original design with upgraded…
by Andre Martins member of ACBS This is the story of our boat. I could write for hours and days about all the happiness it has brought to our family since 1937. Veterana, that’s the name of our 1936 Chris-Craft Special Race Boat. My great-grandfather was from Brazil in 1891, and in 1932, he and…
by Tom Lehn member of the Ohio Valley chapter To understand the story of the stern flagpole, you need to know a little about Cherry Float. She is a 17’ 1948 Chris-Craft Deluxe Runabout with the KBL 131hp engine. She adopted me as caretaker in June 2014. She was purchased in August 1947 by Thomas…
by Bob Voyles member of the Blue Ridge chapter Remember When is a very special part of the Voyles family. Originally purchased from the factory in 1941 by a Chicago family and kept on Lake Michigan, this beautiful 22’6” Garwood Streamliner was restored in upstate New York and brought to Lake Rabun in the mid-1990s…
by Peter Charron member of the Thousand Islands chapter The 1997 15′ Boston Whaler Dauntless belongs to our 14 year old daughter At the very early age she took up the challenge of learning everything she could about boating safety and passed the NYS boating license exam just a few days after her 10th birthday.…
by Ken Powell member of the Bob Spletz Land-O-Lakes chapter For the last 28 years, at noon on Sunday of the August long weekend, a collection of antique wooden boats assemble a half mile from the town harbour in the little town of Kenora,Ontario, Canada. It is known as the HarbourFest Annual Wooden Boat Parade.…
by Wes & Gail Van Dine members of the Southern New England chapter The 1946 Ensign is a 16 foot utility built as an entry level economy boat powered by a 93hp Chrysler “Ace”. Most of the production boat hull topsides were painted white with varnished transom and decks. Very few were totally bright because…
by Dion Johnson member of the Southwest chapter Miss Merc was home built in 1972 from Glen-L ‘Tiny Titan’ boat plans. She is a three-point hydroplane just a tad over 8 feet long weighing about 65 pounds. The two sponsons provide stability, while the air cushion rushing under the tunnel provides a lifting force so…
by Greg Walters members of the Sunnyland chapter I was nervous putting a fiberglass sailboat in the Sunnyland ACBS boat show in 2017. I didn’t know if the other boaters would understand or appreciate how cool a Sun Cat is. The apprehension was alleviated when we first pulled up to our assigned dock space, the…
by Steven Dahlgren member of the Blackhawk chapter I recently acquired my dream boat, a 1959 Chris-Craft ski boat. I began waterskiing at the age of 5 at my cousins lake house in Whitewater Wisconsin and continued to enjoy boating on the Fox Waterway in Illinois, my family owned a Yamaha Waverunner and later a…
by John Gambill member of the Michigan chapter It was 2010 and I had registered my 1957 Arena Craft Barracuda for the Branson Missouri International Show but what the heck, someone bought the darn boat just two weeks before show time! Reservations had been made and paid and here I was with no boat! I…