- Owner
- Frank & Helen Petran
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Email
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- Home
Town - Port Washington, WI
- Boat
Builder - ChrisCraft
- Boat
Model - Sea Skiff Sportsman
- Boat
Lenght -
19'
- Boat
Year - 1964
- Boat
Hull - Wood
- Boat
Name - The Run-A-Around
- Engine
- ? HP, ? Cyl.
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- Additional
Information -
Frank and Helen Petran are the proud owners of the Run-A-Around.
She is a 19’ Sea Skiff Sportsman by Chris-craft. Built in
1964 at the Cadillac Plant, it was delivered to Engle Marine Service
in Oden Michigan on April 14, 1964. It is one of only 50 boats
of this series that were built in 1964. In March of 1965 some
of the 5/8” plywood lapstrakes started to delaminate and
the boat was returned to the factory for repair.
On a trip in the spring of 2000 to Ohio to visit my son Byron,
we stopped at the Antique Boat Connection for a visit with Lou
Rauh. They had a 24’ Sea Skiff listed that was of some interest
but upon inspection it didn’t fit the bill. He mentioned
that he had another smaller Sea Skiff in the other building. This
was just what my wife and I were looking for. We owned a 17’
1939 Chris-craft Custom Deluxe Runabout at that time. During the
previous years, Helen had gotten quite a few showers from water
coming over the bow, of course I just kept replying, “Just
the nature of the beast.” But that started to get old. She
wanted something just a little bigger and a whole lot drier. The
19’ Sea Skiff would fit the bill. I purchased the boat and
told Lou to get all the paperwork together and give me a call
at that time. I waited a month as still no word so I called Lou
asked him what the holdup was. Some sort of problem about locating
the title was what he said but don’t worry, I know the owner
personally so as soon as he locates the
title he’ll give me a call. Another 2 months went by but
no call so I called Lou and stated that if I don’t receive
word that the title was located by the end of the next month the
sale was off. The end of the next month I received a call from
Lou saying my check is in the mail as the title hadn’t been
located. In Spring of 2001, Lou called me and asked if I was still
interested in the Sea Skiff and I said “Yes” so a
trip to Cincinnati was planned and the Sea Skiff now had a new
home. The nice part of the whole deal is all it took was a little
paint and varnish, a lot of elbow
grease to bring it to where it is today.
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