All three nameplates provided enough sheer speed, however, to give their owners an adrenalin rush. 1946 GAR WOOD 176 Deluxe Runabout Boat Vintage Print Ad - 7.80. But the heavier, lower-riding Gar Woods proved friendlier and faster in rough waters.Ĭhris-Craft boats offered roughly the same handling as the Gar Woods but often proved lighter and quicker. is the barrel bow, now standard on all Gar Wood runabouts.
Hackers generated more speed with less power, Magnussen says, because of the way the bottom design pushed the bow up out the water. More Beauty in Gar Wood Boats Three Sizes in Boltzer-Jonesports : Chris-Croft Fleet of 115. This was an all balsa wood kit of a typical gentleman’s runabout with a unique bottom design in that it was built as a deep Vee design rather than the typical runabout modified Vee design used by so many other runabouts of that period. "There was none so dedicated to power plant and speed, and the name became synonymous with those qualities."Ĭigarette and its 50-foot successor, which took the same name, enabled Gar Wood to sell other boats by marketing its products as the biggest, best and fastest.īut several of the major boatbuilders developed successful designs for both racing and, especially after Chris-Craft began mass production in the early 1920s, the increasingly profitable realm of pleasure boating. " `Cigarette' was the biggest, most powerful and most famous boat of its kind," says Craig Magnussen, a Washington-based motorboat enthusiast and historian who will talk at the symposium this weekend.
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