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Hacker-Craft's logo, hand-painted in gold leaf on the side of a mahogany runabout. Hacker was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 24, 1877. For four years, while working at his father's business as a bookkeeper, he attended night school and took a correspondence course in order to become an accredited marine designer.
The first Uniflite boat an all fiberglass 17' outboard. Uniflite soon added a 14', an 18' and a 20' outboard and inboard/outboard boats, followed by a 25' express cruiser followed by a 31' and a 34' boat. Uniflite was the only boat builder exclusively using fire-retardant resins in the production of pleasure boats. [citation needed]
A runabout is any small motorboat holding between four and eight people, well suited to moving about on the water. Characteristically between 20' and 35' in length, runabouts are used for pleasure activities like boating , fishing , and water skiing , as a ship's tender for larger vessels, or in racing.
The Riva Aquarama is a luxury wooden runabout built by Italian yachtbuilder Riva. Production of it and its derivatives (the Lungo, Super, and Special) ran from 1962 until 1996. The hull was based on the Riva Tritone, an earlier model speedboat by Riva, which in turn was inspired by the American mahogany Chris-Craft runabouts.
30 Footer – A 30-foot flying bridge cabin cruiser that never saw production. It was designed and built at the Glasspar R&D department by Bill Tritt prior to his leaving the company in 1960. The boards short-sighted decision to not build this model, along with aircraft parts and the entire automotive line, was the reason Tritt resigned from ...
The Newport 20 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a masthead sloop rig, an internally-mounted spade rudder and a fixed fin keel.It displaces 2,500 lb (1,134 kg) and carries 990 lb (449 kg) of ballast.
The 150th Kentucky Derby was all that and more as 156,710 people were on hand to watch Mystik Dan’s thrilling victory via a photo finish in the Run for the Roses on Saturday at Churchill Downs ...
Sorfam also added additional product lines through the acquisition of Vanquish Boats in April 2020, a brand offering a similar style to classic Century Boats. The acquired line has been rebranded and named the Coronado, a return to the company's roots. Coronado models include runabouts, cuddys, and dual and center console boats.