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For Immediate Release Changing Our Course! Tahoe Maritime Museum to Auction its Collection of Boats and Engines through Bring A Trailer as part of Reorganization TAHOE CITY, CALIFORNIA, July 15, 2020 – The Tahoe Maritime Museum Board of Directors announced today the selection of Bring A Trailer (bringatrailer.com), an online vehicle auction company, as the…
By Tom Parsons member of ACBS The fact that we now own two classic/antique boats is ironic being that as a youth I grew up on a 31’ 1951 Chris-Craft Express and my earliest memories are of spending every weekend in the spring laying on my back in the mud scraping and painting. This was…
by Richard Reichert member of the Lake Hopatcong chapter As a child in the 1950’s I was lucky to have spent every summer at our family home on Lake Wallenpaupack. At the age of 12 I spent hours at the end of our dock hoping to see the occasional wooden boat that passed. Our immediate…
by Joel Rigoglioso member of Chesapeake Bay chapter Flashback to 1969 and I’m in 8th grade, thirteen years old. A student in East Islip, NY (Long Island). My classmate has been told by his dad that his grades are low, and he must sell his 1958 Lyman Lapstrake 16′ Fisherman. Complete with a 1957 35hp…
ACBS Chesapeake Bay Club Members, Howard and Cheryl Johnson, enjoyed the ACBS International Show, in September 2019, at Alexandria Bay, NY. At Riveredge Resort Hotel, we met Steve Moser, who had a Needlenose Raceboat sticking out the back of his Chevy Pickup, which soon was sticking out the back of our pickup. On the way…
By Kenneth Boeschen member of the Blackhawk chapter I went about the restoration of a Chris-Craft U-22 sportsman in my garage. I did not attempt a historical restoration, I just wanted a wooden boat pretty enough that when people saw it, they would say,” Wow, what a beautiful boat”! After removing all the internal components…
By Ted Hall member of the Wine Country chapter My Great Grandfather, George W. Hall built approximately 40+ boats in the 1920’s and 30’s on Keuka Lake, in Branchport, NY. He and his wife, Carrie Campbell operated Campbell’s Beach with cottages for rent and George Hall “trout boats” for each cottage. Campbell’s Beach today is…
By John Dougery member of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe chapter An avid tennis player since the days of wooden racquets, lover of boating, swimming and waterskiing on Lake Tahoe since childhood, intrigued by the elegance of Riva boats, I eventually found myself immersed in the seductive “wooden boat racket” by becoming the third owner of…
by Kenneth Moeri member of the Lake Hopatcong chapter My dream of owning a classic boat became a reality in July 2010. I acquired Hornblower with love in my eye in beautiful Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey from an ACBSLH chapter member. Hornblower is a 1954 20 ‘Chris Craft Special Sportsman had been basically restored to…
By Kevin Stephani member of the Wine Country chapter The wood boat bug bit me as a 10-year-old child in 1968 in dad’s 1958 Chris-Craft. Always taking a Monday morning fishing trip on Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey. A memory well cherished. Fast forward to the summer of 1992 while as a newlywed, and vacationing on…
National Vintage* Boating Day August 8, 2020 10:30 a.m. to noon (local time) If your organization has had to cancel events this summer, but you’re still looking for a way to keep your club members engaged, why not join us for National Vintage* Boating Day – Saturday, August 8, 10:30 a.m. to noon (local time).…
By Mike & Vickie Rutkowski members of the Rocky Mountain Classics chapter In 1959, Oxford, MI was one of the small affluent communities just north of Detroit, MI, the automotive capital of the world. It was there that Cornelius Ray (C Ray) decided to apply some of the strategies of the car business to the…