Welcome to the Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club—the largest and longest-standing antique and classic boat marque club in the world.

The Mariners' Museum has announced an exciting addition to their Web Presence that Chris-Craft owners and enthusiasts will love. The Mariners' Museum Image Collection Website www.images.marinersmuseum.org has an image Gallery that includes Photos, Plans & Drawings and Brochures & Catalogs from their vast Chris-Craft Collection. There are provisions on-line to order copies of any of the images presented in the Gallery along with many size and texture options.

As you may be aware, we also have a very large On-Line Archive that includes photos, drawings, historic documents and marketing literature, as well as old Brass Bell quarterly publications. Members of the Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club may access hi-res PDF files of over 60,000 pages that may be downloaded and/or printed. However, the Club does not offer a means to order quality copies of them on-line. Nor does the Club Archive include the enormous collection of original photos and plans & drawings. Most of these are available exclusively from The Mariners' Museum - Chris-Craft Collection. Now many of them may be viewed in their Image Collection and ordered on-line.

The Mariners' Museum - Image Gallery - Chris-Craft Collection is a tremendous break-through and represents the future for many other significant parts of the Collection to be accessible on-line, such as the Hull Cards and other Chris-Craft documents that exist only at The Mariners' Museum Library.

We have and will continue to encourage you to join The Mariners' Museum and receive a discount when you order a Research Package for your Antique or Classic Chris-Craft. Will our own Club Archive be obsolete due to the development of the Chris-Craft Image Gallery at The Mariners' Museum? Not at all! The two formats will indeed supplement each other. Our Archive is the result of thousands of hours of time and over $85,000.00 of Grants and Gifts and it will continue to grow as time and funds allow. It will continue to benefit our members in the future, as it has in the past.

We encourage you to visit the new Website and patronize The Mariners' Museum.


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