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The 2018 Annual ACBS Meeting & International Boat Show is scheduled for Sept. 12-15. The 2018 Annual ACBS Meeting & International Boat Show will be held at Port Huron, Michigan. Port Huron will shine as a first class host for the boat show and the annual meeting activities. The newly opened Blue Water Convention Center will be…
Report of the First Ever Heartland Classics Arkansas River Odyssey – October 17-21, 2015 With its origins as snow melt in the Rockies, it carves its way through several of the states in the Heartland Classics membership region before eventually uniting with the White and Mississippi Rivers. It is the Arkansas River and it has…
Charlie Mistele and Terry Fiest take a Garwood demo run in Miss America IX at Sunnyland Boat Show, Lake Dora Tavares, Florida. Denis Donohue was kind enough to send us a few pics from this year’s Sunnyland boat show in Tavares, Florida. On Friday night they announced that Charlie u and his Miss America IX would make…
1958 Runnin’ Late is shown September 2013 at the Wolfboro, NH Vintage Race Regatta. Bob Harrity’s 13 ft Raveau marathon runabout. With it’s 60 hp Mercury 55H racing motor. 1958 Running Late reaches a top speed of 70 mph!
Zip is the Lewis family’s 1953 Sunfish Sailboat. The boat is the 13th of the first 20 Sunfish built by Alcort. Zip was beautifully restored by Kent Lewis. In these photos, from July 2013, Zip is being sailed by Audrey Lewis. Zip, along with the rest of the Lewis Family, resides in Navarre, Florida.