By Steve Dagg member of the Heartland Classics chapter She is a 1957, 20’ Chris- Craft Holiday. In 2016, I found her through an ad out of Crosslake, Minnesota. She was originally delivered with hull number HY-20-118 to Minnetonka, Minnesota, powered with a Chris-Craft M-130 and, at that point, had been in storage for more…
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By Elinor Miller member of the Mid-Atlantic chapter Fuzzy Beast is 37’ 1967 steel-hulled Chris Craft Roamer designed for boating on the Great Lakes. I acquired her in 1974 while I was living in Chicago. She was my second boat and I was her second owner. The name referred to my cat. My first boat…
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By John Trainer member of the Toronto chapter I have had a lifelong interest in classic boats. This reflects the fact that my summers have been spent on the Muskoka Lakes where some of the finest wooden boats in North America were built, and still ply the waters today. I grew up around two launches…
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By Casey DeHollander member of the Water Wonderland chapter My first memory of wooden boats goes back to my uncle’s Chris-Craft U-22 on Lake Charlevoix. She was a real head turner. Another uncle owned a cottage on Big Star Lake. I spent a lot of summers there watching the fastest boat on the lake, a…
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By John & Pat Gauntt member of the Dixieland chapter The story of Mama Hat goes back to perhaps the early 1940’s when my folks took me to Clementon Lake Park, an amusement park in New Jersey. Among the attractions beside the roller coaster and merry-go-round was a speed boat ride. It cost 50 cents.…
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By Steve & Cheryl Caplan members of Northern California/ Lake Tahoe chapter Her name was chosen at a family gathering. Cheryl’s mother saw a picture of what she was going to look like when she was finished and immediately said, “I’d name her Lollipop because she looks like an old fashioned red and white lollipop!”…
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By Kenneth Barton member of the Southern California chapter In the early 50’s my Mom & Dad, Earl and Velma Barton, got interested in boating. They purchased a used 18′ Owens cabin cruiser from a private party. They ended up buying a 22′ Trojan cruiser from a Trojan dealership in Lakewood California. In late 1957…
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By Bill & Sue Parker members of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe chapter GUTH-A-WIN-GA II is a custom 23’ 1940 Chris-Craft Triple Cockpit powered by a 200hp engine. This boat, originally ordered with orange deck striping, left-hand steering and custom windshield, was delivered new to Lake Tahoe in June of 1940 for owner Hall C. Ross…
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Dear ACBS Member, As you may know, on June 20th, the ACBS Board of Directors voted unanimously to cancel this year’s ACBS Boat Show September 18-19th at the Coeur d’Alene Resort (Idaho) due to Coronavirus Pandemic. All pre-events organized by the Inland Empire Chapter were also canceled. The Annual Membership Meeting will be held via…
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By Chris Finks member of Columbia Willamette and Pacific Northwest chapters Louie is a 1960 Chris-Craft Constellation Hull# CXA-36-139h with hardtop option and still powered by two original Model 283HR025 Chris-Craft Marine engines serial numbers 811440 and 811441. Louie is named to honor my grandfather, James Louis “Louie” Finks Sr. whom I was very close.…
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By Steve and Susie Frasier members of the Rocky Mountain Classics chapter I, who grew up on Lake George, NY, and Susie, who grew up on Keuka Lake, NY. We meet in Colorado. Newly married and newly retired we see a woody sitting on a trailer in Steamboat Springs, CO. Guess what? This 1968 Century…
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By Jeremy Goldstein member of the North Coast Ohio chapter Having owned the1970 23’ Lyman Offshore since 1999 and being the third owner, she’s hull # 6 of only 41 ever built. Not only was she built in Sandusky Ohio at Lyman Boat Works but Sandusky has been her only home port her entire life.…
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