SHOW RESULTS THE 45th ANNUAL PORTAGE LAKES ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC BOAT SHOW SATURDAY, September 11, 2021 On Saturday September 11th, the Portage Lakes 45th annual antique and classic boat show drew a record crowd to one of the best attended shows in many years. This free event was held from 9:00am to 3:00pm at Pick’s…
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The SML Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society today announced it will not hold the 30th Annual Antique and Classic boat show that had been scheduled for September 18, 2021, due to the rapidly rising number of COVID-19 cases in the region and across the country. The show is now planned for September…
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Join the ACBS Mid-Atlantic Chapter at the Independence Seaport Museum Basin, August 28th @ 10:30 AM, for a morning of All American Classic Boating! Grab the family, enjoy a day on the water, and meet our passionate ACBS group to talk about all things engines, restoration, and dedication that go into Classic Boats. After seeing…
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Update August 24, 2021 – This is a paid position. Compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications. August 23, 2021 Letter to the ACBS Membership, I hope all members are having a great summer. This season seems to have gone by quickly. It was just yesterday I thought I put my boat(s) in the water. I…
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By Laura Almond, Long Island Chapter On a lovely Sunday morning, Member (and former Vice President of the LI Chapter) Rob Almond pulled out of his driveway with the ACBS Long Island Chapter ambassador boat, Second Chance (Classic 1966, 16’ Eltro Outboard, owned by Member Chris Almond) in tow. Rob was heading to meet up…
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We would like to see a picture of your boat in the next Tuesday Tour of Vintage Boats. email the picture to dan@acbs.org include the boat owner’s name include year, manufacturer, model of boat, and name tell home port and/or where picture was taken give credit to the photographer, if known
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by Tom Carlin, Pacific Northwest chapter One of the original fleet of recreation boats at the Malibu Club in British Columbia, this boat was used in the salt water of the Princess Louisa Inlet from 1941 until 1950 when the club was abandoned. In 1953 the club was sold to the Young Life Christian Ministry…
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by Rex Lytle, Inland Empire chapter My love of wood boats started when I was a child and my dad owned a small Wolverine wood fishing boat that was probably 14 feet long. In the early 2000 my wife and I purchased a 1961 Chris-Craft Continental wood boat at an estate auction. Every time we…
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This Week’s Tuesday Tour of Classic Boats begins with Sassy, a 1978 Chris Craft Tournament Fisherman owned by Ron and Mary Konyndyk. It was photographed by Ewelina Konyndyk in the channel between Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake. Its home port is Muskegon. Betty Jane is a 1955 Chris Craft Corsair. 45 feet. Twin 350’s replacing…
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by Eric Prahl, Inland Empire chapter Our lake neighbor Darrell Kuelpman told us about this boat in the spring of 2007. I was always helping him tinker on his 1947 Century Resorter and he thought we should own a wood boat too. The boat had been stored in a barn up in Hope, Idaho, so…
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by Tom & Kris Bassett, Inland Empire chapter Our love of wooden boats started off by going to area wooden boat shows where we photographed every boat! Little did we know then that we had photos of a boat we would come to own. Growing up, summers were spent at Coeur d’Alene and Kris’ family…
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by Mitch & Tracy Johnson, Inland Empire chapter My father was born on August 1st, 1926 on Whidbey Island, Washington. Growing up on the island, fishing and boating in Puget Sound was his love since childhood. On my Dad’s birthday in 1967 he factory ordered his new 20’ Thompson Offshore that we still have today.…
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