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NO LONGER AVAILABLE
A best-seller, this 3rd edition adds two chapters,
and many new photographs. Told is the history of the family and the company that made “runabout” and “cabin cruiser” household words. Includes a biography of Christopher Columbus Smith, and analyses of the runabouts, racing craft, rowboats, sailboats, and combat craft-plus a chapter on “boats you never saw.”
Table of Contents:
Origins
Speed Merchants
Murder Over Hull Timbers
The Smith-Ryan Boat Company
Vision and Victory
Racing Dynasty
Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co.
The Twenties
Taxis & Tenders
The Thirties
The Chris-Craft Railroad
The Girls of Chris-Craft
The Forties
The Fifties
The Kit Boats
The Sixties
The Chris-Craft Sailboats
The Seventies
The Eighties
The Nineties
The Mariner's Museum
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