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The boat has a draft of 2.83 ft (0.86 m) with the daggerboard extended and 0.31 ft (0.094 m) with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack. [ 1 ] The design uses sail sleeves, with the hard-coated aluminum spars inserted into the sleeves to rig the boat.
By 1950, the company had 343 authorized dealers and used the marketing slogan "The Thoroughbred of Boats". In the 1960s, Century introduced 45 ft (14 m) motor yachts and jet-powered boats; in 1967 the last wooden boat rolled out of the Manistee Facility in favor of fiberglass.
Chaparral Boats (originally Fiberglass Fabricators) was founded in 1965 by William "Buck" Pegg and Reggie Rose in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The company's bellwether boat at the time was the 15-ft Tri-Hull with a sticker price of $675. [1] Although the tri-hull was discontinued in the early 1980s, many remain in commission today.
That year, a second U.S. auction site was added at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, [10] [58] which ran until 2004. [59] In 2003, Barrett-Jackson opened another annual auction site in Palm Beach, Florida, [6] [60] where it continues as of 2023. [61] It is held annually at the South Florida Fairgrounds, [62] typically in late March ...
The sale, to a private buyer, was for 135 million euros ($142,769,250). It handily outstripped the previous record-setting $48.4-million sale of a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a 2018 auction to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Both of these high-dollar sales were brokered by RM Sotheby's. [1]
In February 1989, the assets of Murray Chris-Craft were put up for auction by the court handling Chris-Craft's bankruptcy. A bidding war broke out between Genmar Holdings and the Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC). The opening bid was set at $38.5M plus $5M for royalties and future sales of boats. OMC won the auction with a high bid of $58M.
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June 1, 2017, Boat Trader and Boats Group decides Miami is the place to be, anchors headquarters. [ 5 ] April 2022, Boat Trader launches the award-winning [ 6 ] TV show Stomping Grounds on streaming television [ 7 ] featuring local boaters and celebrities [ 8 ] [ 9 ] across America.