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911 Military St., Port Huron, MI 586.242.4102
boat show kicked off with a picnic at a pri-
Chris Craft vate island home, the Octagon House just
Turns 100 off the Middle Channel. On return from the
Cont. from picnic, attendees were received at a Cap-
Pg. 16 tain’s reception inside the historic cruiser
The event building where a slide show and videos of
was well pub- historic Chris Craft photos and films were
licized through presented. Saturday was the boat show
the ACBS and with many examples of Chris Craft on dis-
the Chris Craft play. The array of boats included just about
Antique Boat everything made by Chris Craft including
Club and all large cruisers, runabouts, utilities, fiber-
events for the glass etc. Matt Smith, Mr. “Woody Boater”
3 day celebra- brought a boat all the way from Virginia. Gar
1231 S. Gratiot - Clinton Township, MI tion were fully Wood’s record setting Miss America X with
4 Packard engines was also in attendance.
subscribed. Al-
Ph: 586-465-1733 | Email: mtclemensglass@gmail.com most 100 boats The weekend of events wrapped up with
were regis- a Sunday brunch cruise to the 150- year-old
tered with participants from New York, Flor- historic Old Club.
Algonac Celebrates ida, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Indiana, During the show on Saturday, 14 for-
100 YEARS of Minnesota, Virginia, Georgia and Ontar- mer employees of Chris Craft were in atten-
io. Among the boats, there were 2 14’ kit dance. They spanned a wide range of jobs-
Chris Craft Boats grass cutter, gift department, bookkeeping,
electrical, plumbing etc. One woman had
worked there 42 years. One of the former
employees took home envelopes for her
daughter to seal. The daughter was paid 10
cents for every 5 envelopes!
The company sold high-end boats to
famous customers such as Dean Martin,
Katherine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra and El-
boats. When the kit vis Presley. In it’s heyday Chris Craft had 8
boats were introduced in 1950, plants in the US as well as one in Canada
they became the fastest selling line and one in Italy.
Photo: Trevor Walczy in company history. As well as the boats, When Chris Craft moved their head office
there were 3 Chris Craft Land Cruisers, a to Pompano Beach, Florida in 1957, it was
travel trailer kit that a big blow to Algonac. The Smith Family
was offered by Chris sold the company in 1960.
Craft in 1954. This The Chris Craft trademark has survived
product line was not and one can buy a Chris Craft today. The
nearly as successful name has been owned by a number of
as the kit boats and companies, and is presently owned by
was discontinued Winnebago Industries Inc.
after little
more than
a year.
The

Unique twin 1959 Silver Arrow’s above are 2 of only 92 made.
One of them is hull #80 & was produced in Cadillac, Michigan. MT CLEMENS CHRISTIE MARINE
It sold in ‘59 by Colony Marine Sales of Algonac for $3,864.00. GLASS
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