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by Jim McGrath member of Inland Empire & Big Sky chapters In the much-fabled “summer of 69” and at 14 years old, I first saw her and fell in love. It was in a neighbor’s barn near our family’s summer home on Swan Lake in northwest Montana. She was beautiful, stunning, and a lot older…
by Tim Hoffman member of ACBS Credit a 1980 restoration of a 1959 Delta molded mahogany runabout and the Real Runabouts book series as the catalyst for wanting to do it again. A picture of the Delta, before restoration, can be seen on page 122 of The Real Runabouts, Outboard Edition. The boat had no…
by Brian Ferrin member of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe chapter I wasn’t looking for another boat, much less a 1982 Ski Nautique. I’d had 7 tournament ski boats, including 6 Nautiques but when I saw it sitting on its trailer on the dealer’s lot in Rocklin, Ca I was curious. The salesman told me that…
by Greg Lewandowski member of the Michigan chapter Tiger Lily is a 1957 20′ Chris-Craft Continental (hull #CL-20-189) that was shipped from the Cadillac plant to Cooper Chris-Craft Sales in St. Clair Shores, Michigan on Oct. 24, 1956. She is powered by the original Chris-Craft 175HP MCL flathead six cylinder engine. Unfortunately that is all…
by Mark Murphy member of the Blue Ridge chapter The history of the boat goes back to 1974 when Helen and Mason Whitney bought the 1974 Century Resorter for use at their lake house on Lake Burton in northeast Georgia. The intent was to have a high performance boat for family use, skiing and cruising.…
by David Broderick member of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe chapter MATOKA is a 1937 24′, ( LWL 17′,) Quincy Adams Interclub Sloop, 4′ keel, 1200lbs ballast – one of nine built for racing by the Quincy Adams Shipyard, Quincy Ma, which had taken over the old Lawley Shipyard. Both have long since closed. My home…
by Wayne Purdy member of the Columbia Willamette chapter While reading a book called “Boats by Purdy” by Alan Dinn, I discovered he had a complete set of drawings for the Biscayne Baby. I had been looking for a project and this looked like the perfect thing to build. After securing a set of plans…
by Daniel Michalak, member of the Tidewater chapter My love for wooden boats began at the age of 8, when I was first offered a ride on a 1950 Chris Craft Ski Boat on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Nearly 40 years later, while paddling in a canoe on the same lake, I noticed a…
by Mike McBride member of the Indiana chapter I found a picture with my father-in-law sitting in a 1947 Chris Craft Deluxe. That’s when the dream started and the bug hit me. My wife’s parents owned Holiday Marine on Lake James in Angola, IN. My father-in-law had told me about the phase of going from…
by David West member of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe chapter West Winds, a 25′ Chris-Craft Sportsman, was manufactured and shipped from Chris-Craft on December 5, 1947, to Tahoe Boat Company. The hull card shows it was shipped without engine or propeller. At Tahoe Boat Company, Tahoe’s famed Dick Clark installed the Scripps Model 302 V-12…
by Ricard Daley member of Okanagan chapter This 1962 Fiberform Boat was sitting abandoned in a marine repair yard in Lethbridge, Alberta. On Monday July 29th at 4 pm I picked this boat up in running condition. The night I brought it home my wife Maria looked at it and stated “that’s the ugliest boat…
by Brian Ferrin member of Northern California/Lake Tahoe I remember it as vividly as any impressionable 12 year-old would, although it happened over 50 years ago. Being somewhat scrawny, I fit easily between the engine cover and gunnel as the boat roared across Northern California’s Lake Berryessa. Another much racier looking boat drew alongside, its…