Chris Craft Classic Boats

The Fleming family has taken on the awesome task of restoring this classic old Chris Craft. As you will see, she was in pretty bad shape at the start. This site details their work in progress with text and many pictures. A very intersting site!

I just found Mark's homepage. What a terrific job! He has a lot of great boat pictures with the boat descriptions. He also includes a lot of information and links about classic wooden boats. I set up a link to his Application Form for the Chris Craft Antique Boat Club (above).

Andy has just added a new and very useful feature to his page: "Ask An Expert". It allows you to ask several boat builders or restorers a question about your boat. A neat idea!
The page also featues a picture of the "Flagship of the Week".
In addition, the page includes links to other web sites by category:

Dave has put together a really nice homepage dedicated to classic wooden boats. He includes a picture gallery of beautifully restored vessels, complete with vessel description and owner's comments. Very nice. The page also includes stories and news articles of interest to wooden boat owners and several links to other interesting web sites.

This Club is limited to owners or former owners of classic wooden vessels. Its primary area is that of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries (USA), however all areas are welcome. The annual dues are $70.

The Club was formed in 1971 for the purposes of promoting the preservation of classic water craft, encouraging Rendezvous and other gatherings, collecting information on classic water craft and acting as a reference source for same, and encouraging the restoration of classic water craft to as near original condition as possible.

The Club sponsors an annual formal Competition to recognize those classic yachts that are outstanding examples of preservation and restoration. Professionals in marine design and engineering are engaged to act as judges.

Fox Valley Boat restoration shop is a unique midwest facility with the equipment and craftsmen needed to perform high quality restorations. Established in 1927 on the Northern Illinois Chain O Lakes located 42 miles northwest of Chicago in the town of McHenry, the gateway to the Lakes.

Speciallizes in locating and selling Obsolete, No Longer Available, New and Used marine engine parts and accessories.

Besides antique and classic Chris Craft engines and parts, Pete has a large variety of antique and classic boat instruments, hardware and parts. He is also the Michigan Distributor for Rotary Marine Power Engines.

Of interest to Chris Chris enthusiasts is the fact that Pete restored and is the proud owner of "Climax", the 1930 26' Triple Cockpit Chris runabout featured on the dust cover of Jeff Rodengen's book "The Legend of Chris Craft".

Woodies on the Web is an online resource specializing in antique and classic wooden boats, primarily powerboats. Kent is a very active member of the Chesapeake Bay and Adirondack Chapters of the Antique and Classic Boat Society (ACBS) (See above)

Woodies on the Web is an attempt to highlight the best that Classic Boating has to offer and is divided into the following sections:

PHOTO GALLERY - A look at some fine examples of classic craft, complete with brief historical information.

MAJOR BOAT BUILDERS - A listing of some of the major wooden boat builders and their histories.

GENTLEMEN GO RACING - A glimpse of an era gone by...when sportsmen were gentlemen and raced glorious wooden speedboats for fun, and the "Gold Cup".

THE RUM RUNNERS - Bootleggers of contraband who had an entrepreneurial spirit.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMMUTING - The "classic" way to go to work for the upper class.

NAUTICAL LINKS - Some links that should be of interest to classic boaters everywhere.

THE CLASSIC BOUTIQUE - Gifts and nautical novelties for the wooden boat enthusiast.

"The Nation's largest "N.O.S." and Used Inventory of CHRIS CRAFT Parts and Accessories!"

"We repair and rebuild all makes of gear boxes, marine transmissions, pumps and equipment."

Steve at the Prop Shop tells me that they have a full inventory of props for Chris Crafts in hard to find pitches and diameters. All at half price!

This company buys and sells large or small quantities of new and used boat parts, engines, etc. With their online wholesale catalog, they make it easy to find what you want. Check out their "Hot Sheet" for hot ready to go items.

You may select from any of the following languages to view the page:

English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portugese

Their page has the following sections:

When Chris Craft went out of the wooden boat building business, CPC bought their inventory of parts. CPC publishes a price list sequenced by the Chris Craft Part No. (XX.XX-XXXXX) for $5.00. This is again well worth the cost. If you can determine the P/N of the item you need, you can readily determine it's availability and cost.

When I am looking for a part for "Night Hawk", I look to CPC first. If that fails, I then go to the "Trading Dock" section of the Chris Craft Antique Boat Club's "The Brass Bell".

LPX publishes a price list sequenced alphabetically but which includes the Chris Craft Part No. (XX.XX-XXXXX) similar to Certified Parts above. While I haven't had the opportunity to use them, a local marina I do business with states that they have had excellent service from LPX.

There are a number of newsgroups devoted to various boating areas. Here are a few: