by Seb Borrello member of the Thousand Islands chapter When we saw the Penn Yan Cartopper in front of a small cottage on a back road near Clayton NY, we screeched to a stop. Sure enough it had a For Sale sign on it. No trailer and no oars but a good-looking hull with all…
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Brings Message of Access, Empowerment, and Education KINGSTON, N.Y. – The Hudson River Maritime Museum is proud to announce Maiden, the 58-foot racing sailboat made famous by the 2019 documentary Maiden will be visiting Kingston on April 20 and 21, 2020. Maiden was the first all-female crew to compete on the Whitbread Round-the-World Race. Maiden…
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by Vic Melchiorre member of the Indiana chapter I saw my Chris-Craft XK18 several years before I bought it. One summer day in 2011 or 2012, my best friend Brian Buehrer and I decided to go to Cassopolis, Michigan from Lake James Indiana to see Roger Pecina’s museum & collection of boats & etc. We…
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by Lance Ehrke member of the Glacier Lakes chapter Our Chris-Craft is a 1933 18′ Deluxe Runabout. She was built in late 1933 and delivered in early 1934 to Green Lake, Wisconsin. Her serial number is 33013 and as an early model of the family of 208 runabouts that were built over the next 5…
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by Dix Wolcott member of Thousand Islands chapter Our 1948 Century Sea Maid Bebop was awarded Outstanding Restored Classic Runabout at the 2015 Annual Antique Boat Museum Show in Clayton. The week before, the Sea Maid was awarded Best in Show – Restored at the 2015 ACBS-New England Chapter Show in Meredith, NH. Bebop had…
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by Kevin Maltby member of Glacier Lakes chapter Aragonne is a 1938 Chris Craft 17’deluxe Model 818 with the KB 121hp engine. There were 23 model 818’s made in 1938 and Aragonne was the last one built in July of 1938. She was sent to Madison Wisconsin on July 11, 1938 and was used on…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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