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I thought some of you may enjoy this video. About two years ago, I had a chance to buy an original Chris Craft boat kit in it's original box from a guy in PA. It was a 16ft outboard. This is a really neat old promotional film. They really thought of a lot of nice touches to make these boats easy to assemble and they used real mahogany. I read that they made use of the left over and scrap wood from their plant to start the kit boat business. A company named James Craft owned the rights to reproduce these kits, but they went out of business last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWS_2_A0 ... ure=colike

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2011 MALAHINI - KICKED IN THE HEAD

I wake up with a 16ft woody every morning
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=534DBtp1Cnc
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/2011malahini/

Nice find. Thank God for screwguns I remember the days of blisters on the palm of the hand.

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crackerbox build http://s753.photobucket.com/albums/xx17 ... =slideshow

Wouldn't finding one of these kits now be blast!

Bill

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Mini -Tug, KH Tahoe 19 & Bartender 24 - There can be no miracle recoveries without first screwing up.
Tahoe 19 Build

that video is great......i don't even want to imagine life without a cordless drill & driver.......

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Built the 17' Glen-L "Sea Knight"

Is it just me or did you think the fish were already dead that they pulled in??? You know someone has one of those kits hidiing in the corner of a warehouse somewhere, or in the back of a barn!

Steve

Here ya go...third item down $9,000. There are also a couple of other completed CC kit boats for sale.
http://antiqueboatamerica.com/ab_list_b ... Data=Chris

I also thought the dad in the video was a little wild with his fish hook dangling behind junior's back.

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2011 MALAHINI - KICKED IN THE HEAD

I wake up with a 16ft woody every morning
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=534DBtp1Cnc
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/2011malahini/

The person with that kit...some relative of Leakcheck???!!!LOL

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Boat building can best be defined as an endless series of
tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle, followed by a good bottle of beer.

Don't Dream Your Life, Live Your Dream

$9000.00 seems a little excessive! if you could get that much for a wooden boat kit, i would be selling them!

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Built the 17' Glen-L "Sea Knight"

I thought the same about those lifeless fish Steve!

SeaPea

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Craig

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Riviera

I would have expected a cabin cruiser kit for 9K. But the kit in the demo video seemed to be well produced. Any new builders should take note of the shape of the chines in the video to get an idea of how they are faired. It was painful watching all that hand drilling and screwdrivering.

Roberta

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Roberta
Built Zip "Oliver IV" and Super Spartan "Jimmy 70"