Reply With QuoteVery cool and a beautiful boat too! Congrats to your dad!
Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance
As some of you already know, my Dad is an avid classic boat guy, with several old boats that he has restored over the years. Each year he attends the Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance, which is considered the Pebble Beach of boat shows, but usually doesn't actual enter a boat. The show is more for museum pieces, and his boats all get a lot of use.
Over the last year, Dad has been working on re-restoring "Miss Jamie", a 1961 Chris Craft Continetal. He finished it up about 2 1/2 weeks ago, and then took it straight to the Tahoe Keys Boat show. Tahoe Keys is a low key show, similar to a typical car show with classes and trophys. Miss Jamie took home several awards at the show, including a Best of Show. Along with his large haul of of trophies and Korbel magnums, he received an invitiation to enter the boat in the Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance happening the following weekend.
After sleeping on it, Dad called together 2 of his boat friends, and they spent the next 3 full days getting the boat "Concours" ready. This included things like making sure screw heads were all polished and turned the same way, repainting normally hidden things like the fuel pump, borrowing and installing an original style battery, etc. They then headed back toward Tahoe, with a quick stop at the re-finisher for some varnish touch-up. Less than a week after the Keys show, the boat was lowered in to the water for the Concours show.
For those of you who are not familial with Concours awards, the car/boat is not judged against others at the show. Instead, judges examine condition and originality of many different things each one scored independently. The scores are then tallied up, with a maximum of 100 points. If you score 95 points or higher, it is a First Place. 90-94.99 is a second Place. 85-89.99 is a Third Place. Because you are not judged against your competitors, a class can have multiple first place winners or no first place winners.
A 3 man judging team spent "what seemed like almost an hour" going over every inch of Miss Jamie, holding it to a standard higher than the factory ever did. They took a first place. I am pretty sure my Dad is more proud of Miss Jamie than he ever was of me! LOL
More info and pictures of the Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance can be found here: http://www.laketahoeconcours.com/
Last edited by Titus; 08-19-2011 at 02:57 PM.
Very cool and a beautiful boat too! Congrats to your dad!
Man that's awesome, although I can't imagine going through a boat and making sure that all the screw heads are turned the same way!
Agreed... I'm pretty sure that my Dad's friends pushed him in to it. He realized that this was the one and only time when he would have a boat so close to Concours condition. When his friends offered the time and loaner parts to get it there, he figured it was his once in a life time opportunity to go for gold.Originally Posted by goofygrin
What a great story, Titus, and such a beautiful boat. I'm glad your dad took a leap and did it.
BTW, I'm sure if he had to save you or the boat, he'd pick you. He'd be pretty sad about the boat though.
Todd,
What a beautiful boat. I remember seeing boats like that up in Northern Ontario (Canada) around Manitoulin Island when I was just a kid. They are really works of art. Your Dad's boat is a real treasure and it is nice to see people keeping them afloat. And actually using them.
Mike
2000 Miata LS - TEIN FLEX, RB header & Exhaust, Monster CAI, HDHC single diagonal with door bars.
Love those wooden boats!! Gorgeous
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Beautiful boat. Congrats to your dad.
Well Duh!
Beautiful Boat!
Great work! Noticed a Mr. Jackson from Tennessee also had a boat entered - got 2nd place.
Nice to see a project come to such a beautiful conclusion. Gives me slight hope for my 47 Pickup...
Polished Turd Racing
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Nice catch. It looks like Mr. Jackson's boat is currently for sale for a cool $350k.
http://www.antiqueboatamerica.com/ab...t&BoatId=30016
Congrats to your dad, that is one sweet boat.
'06 RSX Type-S NBP
That's just crazy! All that work to put it in the water? Classic boats and cars should be sealed in plastic forever
I'm joking. Congratulations to your Dad for all his hard work and don't feel to bad about the boat vs. me issue.
The real tragedy would be if you sunk the boat
Great story and it is a tribute to the love of things that need to be saved. I saw a man riding a beautiful Indian with leather sattlebags today. What a great looking bike. Tell your Dad thanks for his effort so others can appreciate craftsmanship from the past.
Bobby
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90 Miata, 04 Rubicon, 05 Boxster
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