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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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by Ron Wolfman member of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe chapter STEELER is a 1936 Sea Eagle. Made of 20 gauge pressed steel at 15′ 9″, she is powered with the original 4cyl 58hp Lycoming engine. The bottom is specially designed and has graduated longitudinal corrugations, which lend speed, strength and stability to the planning surface.…
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by Tom Ludwig member of the Rocky Mountain Classics chapter I am the second owner of the “Window Table”. (the name is another great story that I won’t go into here) The original owner was John Thompson, the author of the above piano book and many more piano books and sheet music such as, “Shadows…
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By Walter Frame Jr. member of the New England chapter My love for Chris-Craft’s started in August 1937 on Lake George NY with me riding in my Grandfather’s 1929 Chris-Craft Cadet. I have had an amazing journey while spending 50 years on Great Pond in Maine. In 1949 my family was at Candlewood Isle on…
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by Ron Nowak member of the Blue Ridge chapter I purchased a 1955 Chris Craft Capri (#53) in 2006. We lost our twenty- year old daughter, Christi, in 2005 due to a tragic accident, and I wanted to do something to honor her memory. Growing up in Rochester, New York, and being close to the…
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By Irm Martin member of ACBS In 1972 my husband heard that the Girl Scouts of Quincy IL, our home town, had received a large bequest and were replacing their wood canoes with lighter weight aluminum canoes.We bought one of the wood canoes for $75 and learned that the canoe had originally been purchased by…
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Freedom Boat Service is celebrating their 10th anniversary by offering classic boating enthusiasts the opportunity to listen to 5 recently discovered cassette tapes of workshops held at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, VA in 1995. The cassette tapes have been digitized and uploaded to the Freedom Boat Service You Tube Channel. Note: the workshops…
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by Brian Loos member of ACBS In the year 1952, my father, Arlyn Loos, then only ten years, was tasked by his Cub Scout den leader with preparing a personal life motto – a formidable assignment. Even at such a young age, he decided on “Stick to the project until it is finished, and do…
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