Vintage Boat Restoration Projects

What's New In The Shop

Week of 03/05/2010

 

Our shop and it's experienced technicians work towards perfection and innovation with every project.  Developing innovative tools, methods and techniques is our goal to keep us as one of the leaders in the wooden boat restoration field.

 

                 View photos below of restorations in progress and watch a beautiful woodie come to life!                                  Also view mechancial processes and tools that can make your engine roar!

 Restoration

         
          

                 After the Grand Craft plant closed, Antique Boat Center is doing the final assembly for the customer's 26' Grand Craft.  It has never been used.

                                                                                                                                
          

This 1973 Riva Olympic and Boesch are both having bottom paint touch-up work completed.

 

                          
This 1965 16' Lyman is being refinished/repainted.  It is now prepared for the final coat of paint.

       

 

 Mechanical

 

            

             This 1935 Chris Craft Deluxe is having it's original Ford Flathead V8 reinstalled after being rebuilt.

 

            

A 1947 Gar Wood Ensign is having engine work done.  This is the before photos of the engine as it arrived at our shop.

 

            

Rebuilt Ford Flathead V8. 

 

         

This is a Ford Flathead V8 that has been pulled from a 1935 19' Chris Craft Custom.  Hull card confirms originality of engine which make this a rare combo.   We are having it rebuilt by a premier Flathead Ford builder.

                   

        

Replace stiff throttle linkage on mid to                                       Antique Boat Center test carburetors.  Known   

late 50's Chris Craft Runabouts and Utilities.                               good carburetors that we use to diagnose,

Allows you to reuse the original dash handle                               troubleshoot, and verify engine performance.

and update the linkage with a modern Morse                              We have carburetors that fit many early

style cable.                                                                          marine engine.

 

    

Zenith idle jet blanks.  We are reproducing idle        This is one of our newest tools we developed to aid in more

jets that fit many of the Zenith carburetors            precisely repairing and rigging boat hulls.  We use it to locate

used in marine applications.  These idle jets are       align, and bore the shaft hole through the keel.

almost impossible to find now.

 

 

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