Really nice Chris! Nice to see that it has a bow thruster, for just a little more push, to line things up!! Twin screws can be soooo handy, for "twisting", when in the hands of a mechanically minded captain, like him!!
In 2010 i put the decks and transom on a 1927 chriscraft three holer, all with period mohogany that had been in the rafters of an old boat works. It went to muskoka where it was finished with green italian leather and the rebuilt matching drive.
The only boat I would sale my Eliminator for is a Chris Craft. I’m even planning to have very good climate control when we rebuild our rivers house.. Just in case.
Love old wood boats they have a look you cannot compare to plastic boats but with maintenance costs to store and maintain the boat its out of my time frame, but i will enjoy my 21 foot big block boat that requires minimum maintenance to keep her ripping across the lake every weekend all spring summer and fall cruises at 50 maximize at about 80 .plastic boats are just easier to maintain and enjoy 😉 next on will be a outboard for sure after 20 years the gas is getting out of hand lol 150 bucks minimum to enjoy a day out on the water 💧 the outboard will cut this in half with a little more top end speed and even less maintenance 😉 i will miss my big block thunder goin across the lake 😊but as times change we must follow 😉 with more fuel friendly products we can literally burn 300 dollars in a weekend she is a fuel pig but it does sound like a beast .as much as folks complain about boats we are on number 4 and i can honestly say its no worse than a nice automobile as far as maintenance cost😊got to pay to play 😂😂😂and we really enjoy traveling around the lakes on scenic rides😊✌
When I was young I really liked driving the wood Chris Crafts. They rode great. A older gentleman would come who had one. I was probably 13 at the time. My parents had a cruiser and I had a Renken. It was fast. I was given free gas at the marina to move boats and drive boats while the sales people sold them. But the older gentleman would ask me to drive him in the Chris Craft. When he decided to sell it he wanted me to have it. I wasn’t sure about taking care of a wooden boat and I would have had to sell the Renkin. They were winning lots of races and I had a Johnson Stinger motor on it. It was easy to take care of. But I really did like the Chris Craft.
I’m Canadian, retired now. My dad was a battlefield surgeon in WWII. After he came home he was still employed by the federal government. In 1946 they sent him to Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories where he served as physician, counselor, and justice of the peace to the First Nations people up there and other inhabitants of that vast region. He had two Mounties as colleagues, though they were stationed far away. To get him around this huge lake the government gave my dad a Chris Craft. All this was years before I was born. My dad forgot this story about their time there (LOL) but my mum told me of one night when he brought her with him on a medical call and they were returning home on the Chris Craft. It was late afternoon as they crossed a wide expanse of lake and a storm came out of nowhere. As the wind got stronger and the waves higher, my dad found himself out of his league as the master of a boat in stormy seas. Within a half-hour my parents were facing a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with the fury of a storm that surrounded their boat with many-times-taller seas. Their lives were in peril. We were a Catholic family and my mother told me about my dad’s making a deal with the Blessed Virgin to get them home, promising Hail Marys and Our Fathers and stations of the cross. Don’t forget, this man had survived the horror of WWII. But there is something about the prospect of a death at sea that penetrates every person like an icicle to the heart. After a while my dad raised the stakes. As he trolled that Chris Craft - which unquestionably saved his and my mum’s life and therefore my own - through the enormous seas his offers to the Blessed Virgin became ever more substantial. By the time the seas began to quell and the lights of home became visible, my mum told me my dad had upped the ante to a life-sized statue of the Blessed Virgin in her own grotto. So much for that! It never happened. I was born in 1950 and we were living in Ontario where my dad was a small town family doctor. At age seven I was going to a Catholic primary school, operated by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. We were surrounded by religion but also given a first-class education - many of the nuns had Master’s degrees and some were going beyond. Every once in a while the Principal, Sister Bernadette, would come by our class with an announcement or request. One day she stopped by to tell us a little construction job was going on at the back of the school. The father of an immigrant family, a skilled craftsman, was creating a statue, a life-sized statue of the BVM as we called her. His work was made possible by an anonymous donor. And when it as done I noticed the statue was in its own grotto. Thank you for sharing your Chris Craft experience with someone who has long loved them from afar.
Had the 22' on Lake of the Woods for 30 years. Sold it to the 'lot boy' of the original Manitoba Shepherd dealer, who loved it since cleaning it and getting rides back in the 50's and who is now a huge auto dealer. He sold it to someone in Chicago after having a total restoration done on it by McClelland Boat Works (Jim). That guy can nest repair boards onto those hulls and you cannot find the repair 5 years later. A master 'West System' guy who could make a Shepherd with one hand tied behind his back. That boat with it's Hemi 331 bored to near 400 by a local competition engine builder, was just so enjoyable. I took it out on the roughest days just for the thrill of smashing through those heavy whitecaps. My years of reckless enthusiasm resulted in my having to strip it , pull every plug and screw, countersink deeper, refasten, re-plug and refinish. Labor of love. Your 27 is absolutely stunning. My soul is at ease when I watch your brief video. I'd prefer that to an Aquarama Special. Wish I could see it up close some day. All the very best!
Umm, if you were truly interested you could just pick up the phone and call. You may have to use Google to find the number but I think you can figure it out. Are you familiar with the phrase “if you don’t have anything good to say you say nothing at all”?
@@dustydon6419 Have you heard when you advertise an item INCLUDE THE Price!! Mama Mia! No companies lasted by "boo hoo, you found something amiss w our Co. Keep to yr self!" Potential buyer shldn't have to play "wheres Waldo" fr basic sales info on item!! My God you have to be told this??????
@@billkramer2994 I wasn’t replying to you so where are you coming from? I don’t view this video as a “sales ad” If you’re interested, pick up the phone and call the man. If you have nothing good to say, STF UP.
