"The first 38-footer proved to be much more than just another shallow-draft runabout. A few of the most common are wood, aluminum and fiberglass, amongst others. Because there's no traditional outboard lower unit extending below the hull, the jet. A 1936 Chris-Craft Special Race Boat Replica.Shallow draft aluminum boats. For those of you who are interested in owning an original 19′ Special Race Boat – good luck finding one! However – depending on what you’re objectives are, our friends Mike Teusink & Kirk Wingard at The Wooden Runabout Company in Holland, Michigan may have another option for you to consider. So if you have an original one – congratulations. The fact that they were designed and built as light-weight hulls from the factory also means that they may not have had the same life span as some other pre-war wooden Chris-Crafts. As noted in the Chris-Craft Archives, the popular post-war 19′ Racing Runabout was evolved from the pre-war 1936-37 19′ Special Race Boat.Īs you can imagine – today these 19′ Special Race Boats are very rare and sought-after by collectors. They were offered with three different engine configurations – Chris-Craft KA Lycoming UHE Grey Phantom 6 – and even today are considered by many to be one of the best performing 19′ boats produced due to their light-weight design and construction.Īlthough most of the 51 mahogany hulls were painted when they left the Chris-Craft plant in Algonac, less than 10 left as varnished hulls.
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– Don Ayersġ936-37 Chris-Craft 19′ Special Race Boat – Photo courtesy Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club archive / Don Ayers.Ĭhris-Craft only produced 51 (fifty-one) of these 19′ Special Race Boats in 1936-37 (Hull # 19000 to 19050). The “19-foot Racer,” to which the boat is commonly referred, has no equal with respect to an odd production record, especially for a “stock” boat. It is one thing to have a low production run, but quite another for that run to be so unusual in scope. Nearly all of the myriad Chris-Craft models have a special place in the heart of someone – often many someones – but few are in the category of the 19-foot Special Race Boat.
This word is certainly an understatement when applied to the pre-World War II 19-foot Special Race Boat.
The comprehensive piece included detailed production information and history of this now – iconic wooden boat.Ĭollectible: An asset of limited supply that is sought for a variety of reasons, including, it is hoped, an increase in value. Noted Chris-Craft historian (and long-time fellow Woody Boater) Don Ayers wrote an outstanding Retrospective about the 1936-37 19′ Special Race Boat in the Spring 2006 Brass Bell (the Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club’s quarterly publication). motor with a speed rating of 45-47 m.p.h. Finished in beautiful Yale blue and white exactly as illustrated-or, in any combination of colors you desire, with genuine leather upholstery to match, at no extra cost. Already proud possessor of the official world’s mile speed record in the 225-E class (47.619 m.p.h.) it is a revelation in design and appointments from the flare of its streamlined, rakish bow to the aft cockpit which is entirely concealed by a removable hatch cover when not in use. New to the Chris-Craft fleet is this advanced 19-ft. – Photo courtesy Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club Archive / Don Ayers
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(Matt & Lisa Byrne from Aurora, IL won the coveted “Best Restored” award at the 2012 ACBS International Meetings and Boat Show in Table Rock, Missouri for “Miss Lisa” their stunning 1939 19′ Gar Wood Custom Runabout)ġ936 Chris-Craft Full Line Brochure featuring the new 19-Ft. Not according to fellow Woody Boater Matt Byrne and the guys at The Wooden Runabout Company. The first thing that comes to mind when you read the title on the cover of the vintage Popular Mechanics magazine – Build a Boat for Pleasure or Profit – is “Things have sure changed since the good-old-days when people simply went out and bought a kit or a set of plans and a truckload of lumber and built the boat of their dreams in their garage… Those days are long gone!”īut wait – IS the idea of building a wooden boat long gone today? Journalist Alan Fredericks knew Dad well.” – Bill This 1941 Popular Mechanics book was in the family forever.
He was a founding member of the Niagara Frontier Chapter ACBS. “Texx – I found this book while cleaning out my Dad’s stuff. TODAY’S STORY BEGAN with a simple e-mail we received a few months ago from fellow Woody Boater Bill DeGlopper. Build A Boat For Pleasure Or Profit – Are Those Days Long Gone?
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