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Check this one out:
p://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/photoGallery.jsp?slim=quick¤cy=USD&units=Feet&seo=0&checked_boats=1925246&boat_id=1925246&back=/core/boats/1957/Chris-Craft-Futura-Sports-Express-1925246/Port-Huron/MI/United-States&boat_id=1925246
CC made some pretty ones.
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Looks like a Fisherman, right? The true C-C were great boats, but when they got bought out...Ugh! I hear they are back on the right track again.
Jeff
Only 40 days 'til splash time!
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Holy smokes!!! That is one hot boat. If they made a design like that today I bet they would sell. I'm betting the market is due for something other than the same old euro suppository style searay.
The same goes for automobiles, imo.
-Karl
1986, 32' Sedan, twin 360ci, 275hp Chrysler's w/ K&N flame arrestors
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Sure a great looking vessel but it looks like C/C did a little copying from the Hinckey Talaria or it may be the other way around ?  I couldn’t afford that neighborhood but wish I could. Why was I born so handsome instead of rich  Norm, Big  s Live On 
Keep your hooks wet & your Butts dry also make sure your whistle stays wet
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I'll take either!
Jeff
Only 40 days 'til splash time!
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Let's remember she's a 1957 Chris Craft!
Most of them had white hulls and this one is clearly better than new--white channels for the cockpit hatches--the factory didn't do that!
If I have the story straight, CC's chief designer was a refuge from one of the big (now much smaller) three. The guy was talented!
Joe
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My best early memories are of spending time with my grandparents (see avatar, left) on their Chris-Craft, in the Chesapeake Bay in the early fifties. She was, of course, all mahogany. After more than a half century my mother still complains about the work of stripping and re-varnishing each year.
I was interested in the "new" Chris-Craft, and took a close look at one of their smaller models. At the Miami boat show one year, I went out of my way to get down to the docks for a quick ride to see how the shaftless drive works. I guess I didn't look wealthy enough, since they kept us waiting for an hour and a half on the dock and then shut down for the day while we were standing in the cockpit. Oddly, I actually had the money and was actually thinking of upgrading.
Now that I have owned a Marinette for some years I think it would have been downgrading.
"I remember when welfare was for poor people..."
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This a beautiful example of craftmanship and style. I have a '67 32' Express....and I can see my in this Chris.......kind of like the poor country bumpkin cousin....or is it in my dreams! Thanks. 
Al
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Beautiful craftsmanship.
A boat like this stirs something in the hearts of every boater.
I really like the new era of Chris Craft boats. They are true to the original heritage of great boat designers at CC.
I think Mr. Smith would be proud.
Jeff, can I borrow $800,000?
Peter
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Jeff, While U R at it digging up that 8 hundred G’s for Peter, U might as well make it 1.6 Million so as I can get me one of them there Pretty C/C  I promise to pay U back as soon as my hunched back brother straightens up or may be we could just call it a bailout.  Norm, Big s Live On
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Sorry, but I got to get my own bailout first. Still waiting.
Jeff
Only 40 days 'til splash time!
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By the way that beard looks in his Santa photo, Jeff. Norm might be a shoe thrower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or was that a Bud Light comercial that was never released?
Scratch my back with a hacksaw..........................
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Actually, the bid is mine. I finally got my bailout money. What are you guys going to do with yours?
"I remember when welfare was for poor people..."
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Doug,
Would like to come down & be part of your crew! I'll even buy a case of St Louis' best with my bail out.
Merry Christmas,
Roger
The trouble with getting old, There is a lot of info in memory, I either can't find it or don't trust it if I do!
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