From Jeff Butzer, ACBS Member While on a day excursion during a cruise ship stop we visited Our Lady of the Rock, a tiny islet in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. There we toured a small nautical museum featuring the maritime history of this community along the Eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. Among the…
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By Doug McQuilken, Blue Ridge Chapter I was not looking for another boat but serendipity struck! I’m browsing through Craigslist and spot a recent posting for this boat. Looked interesting but when I found that it had been donated to a local non-profit that provides wooden boat building programs to children https://lowcountrymaritimesociety.org/ , I was…
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From Headquarters This spring we are excited to bring back the ABM/ACBS Symposium, to be held here in Clayton, New York, June 9th through 11th. The symposium had been a longtime collaborative effort between our two organizations but for multiple reasons hasn’t run for the past few years. Now, it will once again provide our…
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By Scott Rossley, Bay State Classic Boat Club I have always had an interest in Boston Whaler boats ever since I was in middle school. After owning many runabouts, most recently I acquired a 1957 Chris Craft Holiday and my interest in older boats began. Fast forward to my 50s when I spent more and…
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By Don Leutz, Awards Committee Chair The official start of the 2023 Boating Season has begun, and it is now time to consider a deserving individual(s), or ACBS Chapter that might be worthy of receiving one of many ACBS International Awards. A brief summary of the Awards are as follows: Terry Fiest Award: This is…
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By David and Deborah Clark, Southern California Chapter In the summer of 2003 I was invited to Homosassa, Florida, to inspect and evaluate the classic car collection of Dr. Donald Vesley. He had recently passed away and his longtime girlfriend, Linda was handling the estate. After viewing the cars, Linda asked me to also look…
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From the ACBS Chapter Development Committee The Chapter Development Committee will be hosting the next Virtual Chapter Round Table on Wednesday, April 19th at 7:00PM EST. This session is for all Chapter Leaders that have questions about insurance, and will be led by ACBS’s Agent, Doug Adams. Doug will answer the common questions about what…
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By David Quirsfeld, Glacier Lakes Chapter This Thompson Sea Lancer had sat idly in a garage since 1984 until I rescued it from an estate sale in 2021. Unfortunately, the 1980s vintage 80hp Mercury outboard was sold before I learned of the Chicago area sale. With no dry rot to speak of, its overall good…
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From the ACBS Marketing Committee We know that many Chapter webmaster and social media managers have had more questions specifically about online tools for their chapters. The Web Workshops are geared toward a specific online topic and answering your questions about that topic. The next Web Workshop will be held Wednesday, April 12th at 8:00PM…
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From Headquarters While attending the Sunnyland show we all learned of the passing of Arthur Dean Guy. Dean, as his friends knew him, was very active in the two ACBS chapters, Sunnyland and Blue Ridge, he called home for over 30 years. He also served on the ACBS International Board and led the organization as…
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By Scott Wilcox, Mountainview Woodies Classic Boat Club A Little History… In the early part of the last century canoe manufacturing as an industry began to develop. Many backwoods craftsmen became entrepreneurs. Among them were the Chestnut brothers, Henry and William, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Several manufacturers tried to develop a motorized version of…
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Michael and Tanya Grace, Sunnyland Chapter We were very excited to meet ACBS Sunnyland members Michael and Tanya Grace at the Sunnyland Boat Festival last week where they displayed three fantastic canoes from their collection. Two of the three were not just antiques, but historic canoes at well over 100 years old. The canoes’ builders,…
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