Your first Boat

BKH

I really did not know the exact year. My neighbor was a Chris Craft dealer and the boat was one he had in a barn on his farm. He wanted it out so he gave me the boat for it was not sellable. It had a 4-Cyl flat head Grey Marine engine.

He said the Chris Ctaft was a late 40 or early 50 unit. I got the boat around 1962.

It needed to be redone inside and out. It had been in the feedlot barn for several years.

Wow Reid and Behl! Nice boats. What a thrill to have such cool boats as your FIRST boat.


My first boat (Jan. 2006)....

Reid and Steve: those are awesome. Reid: can you believe you let it go? I hate it that I've sold some of the things I have. More info Steve! Thanks for contributing guys...

bk: this has been a really great thread.

My first inboard

Great boat, great pic Reid. BKH

My first Correct Craft. Bought it while still in college, 1980. Needed entire resto which I did very poorly, but OK for a 21 year old. Dragged it to SoFLA with me after school. These picts were taken on canal and marina in Dania. I foolishly ran it in the salt water, and after a few years down there with it, I sent it back up to NC, where my dad stored it for years. At the time I no intentions of ever moving back, so I told my dad to let it go to a guy who had been hounding him for years, which was back in about 1988. Haven't seen it since.

Dude,

Where is the picture of the Supra taken. I lived in Houston 79-88 and spent many hours on San Jacinto and San Bernard Rivers. The bridge reminded me of those. Either one??

81nautique wrote: you can take your photos to most places that develop film and they will scan them and burn them to a CD. Pretty good way to archive your old photos too.

That's all I did. Took them to the photo station at the drug store and scanned them in. Then $2.99 to burn them onto a CD. Quick, easy, and well worth it to share the memories. Keep them coming!

Rob

Gotta love those old pix. For those of you posting old pictures (from the analog days), could you give us a tip on how you are digitizing them in order to get them on the computer?

rleinen79 wrote: I can't imagine trying to get up behind a 10 horse aluminum boat. I guess that means I was spoiled growing up with a CC.Rob

Spoiled or just Lucky Rob!

The first ski for me was at 5yrs old (1969) behind my Grandpa's Rinken or Rinker with a 70hp Chrysler OB. One of the older boy's next door had an aluminum boat with a 7.5hp OB, we skied behind that more than anything else, even with us being just little kids we still needed to get one person as far forward as possible and the driver would sit in the middle and reach for the hand throttle just to get up on plane.

Joel, my first CC was a 77 same color as in your pic's, man did that thing ride low but it sure had a great sound to it!

Looks like I need to get to my folks and dig thru the photo albums plus my own to get some pic's and I believe my folks have my first ski on an old reel to reel, 8mm or whatever you call those old projectors.

Great thread Brian, hope all is well and you are getting used to those poopy pant changes!!

Rob, when your 4 years old you don't weigh too much.
OK Brian, now your making me feel worse about the decision--it was painful, and out of place for me, I have a tendency to hang on to things that have a relationship to important people, but now I can get my truck in the spot it was taking in the garage, an important consideration in a midwestern winter.
I wrote a story about that boat, myself, my Dad, and my brother out on a fishing expedition when I was a little kid.

Chuck

Chuck, I first skied behind the same. Aluminum fisher with a 10horse Johnson. I can't believe after all these years you let her go.

Joel, great pics. Is that mom in the water helping young Joel get started? BKH

Jbear, "Wallyworld" of course comes from the "Vacation" movie, which is of course followed by the greatest sequel of all time "Christmas Vacation", a must view of our family every year.

Ok, back to first boats. This boat is a 14' 1958 Vishio, made in Topeka, KS. It was constructed of dimpled aluminum, and was a gift from my dad to my grandfather. I don't remember the original engine, but I do know that is the boat I learned to ski behind. Sadly, I just sold it to make more room to work on the Nautique.

Chuck

M3Fan wrote: Looks like I'll have to bust out the scanner. I have some great pics of the 77 SN that "set the hook" for me to be addicted to inboards for the rest of my life.

Come on Joel....with all the technology you've got, I figured you'd be the first to "bust out" the old pics! Get them up there!


Rob

Looks like I'll have to bust out the scanner. I have some great pics of the 77 SN that "set the hook" for me to be addicted to inboards for the rest of my life. TRB, let's see some pics of your family's boats, since you've had like 40 CCs!