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Its evocative name, derived in part from the widescreen Cinerama movie format popular in the early 1960s, echoed in its sweeping wrap-around windshield, conjures images from another time. The Riva Aquarama's 8.02 - 8.78 metre [2] hull was sheathed in mahogany and varnished to accentuate the beauty of its natural wood grain. All versions were ...
Here you'll find classic and classy boat names of the more serious sort (like the "Honey Fitz" yacht that once belonged to JFK and Jackie O.), as well as funny boat names that your fellow captains ...
T & T also made wooden lapstrake outboard and inboard/outboard boats. It lasted until a liquidation auction signaled the firm's end in May 1965. Thompson Bros. Boat at Peshtigo was one of the earliest boatbuilders to embrace the new inboard/outboard propulsion unit that was introduced to the boating public at the New York Boat Show in early 1959.
Thus, despite Gar Wood boats were highly prestigious (a Gar Wood boat had a price mark-up of about 1.5 to 2.5 over a comparable Chris-Craft model of same size [22]) and the brand even used their famous customers since the 1920s as a reference in their advertizing, [23] the only famous person known to have owned a Gar Wood Speedster as its very ...
The name unveiling traditionally takes place at a boat christening, which involves striking your vessel—a not-prone-to-damage metal fixture, preferably—with a bottle of pre-scored Champagne.
Hacker-Craft is the name given to boats built by The Hacker Boat Co., an American manufacturer founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1908 by John L. Hacker (1877–1961). It is one of the oldest constructors of wooden motor boats in the world. The company moved operations to New York State in the 1970s and continues to produce hand-built boats.
In celebration of National Name Your Car Day, which falls on Oct. 2, Capital One released the results of a survey conducted with car owners -- and the findings are totally intriguing.
Columbia is an exact replica of the 1923 Gloucester fishing and racing schooner of the same name. She is a privately owned vessel. Her lines have been converted from wood to steel, and she was built by the owner in his shipyard Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. | Gaff Coronet: 1885 Brooklyn, New York/Newport, Rhode Island