Word: runabouts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...answer to this question was to be found last week in boatyards in Michigan and Florida. There, hidden under tarpaulins, lay the sleek 2j-H. aluminum cabin cruisers that Chris-Craft plans to put on the market next month, as well as prototypes of a racy fiber-glass runabout that the company may include in its 1962 line...
...with a cantilevered aircraft-carrier foredeck and all-electric galley. And for less expensive tastes, Molded Fiber Glass Boat Co. showed a 19-ft. outboard cabin cruiser ($2,800) designed by famed naval architects Gibbs & Cox. Other plastic boats ranged from Sock Boat Corp.'s do-it-yourself runabout ($395), which can be assembled by a novice in 20 hours to the 8-ft. ($325) Dhow midget rowboat. In general, outboards had less chrome, fewer fins, increased storage for gas, paid more attention to passenger comfort...
...Specific Needs." What the auto industry is rolling into now, says Ed Cole, is "the era of specific driving needs." More and more Americans want a big car for big driving jobs, a small runabout for short hops. Thus, having long since realized the dream of a car for almost every family, the U.S. now is sweeping toward two cars in every garage. The compacts are speeding up the trend, since two Corvairs can be bought for the price of the biggest dressed-up Chevy...
Behind a tiny row house in Baltimore, a boatman scours his homemade runabout with steel wool, oblivious to neighborly wisecracks ("Where you gonna get two of every animal, Henry?"). At Cleveland's Yachting Club, a big woman in small slacks mounts the ladder of a cruiser, hoists a heavy box of tools, inches into the cabin to repair the head...
...were designed to drive a boat big enough for the whole family and perky enough to pull a water skier. Since then, outboard motors have become bigger and bigger, now range up to 75 h.p. Equipped with electric starters, a remote steering wheel and gear shift, a modern outboard runabout can give any frustrated householder a heady sense of power for as little as $1,500. Today, some 5,000,000 Americans own outboards v. 1,300,000 in 1947. Last year Outboard Marine, a combine that makes well over half of all outboard motors in the U.S. through...