Chris Craft Runabout

Object/Artifact

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Door County Maritime Museum

Name/Title

Chris Craft Runabout

Entry/Object ID

1978.7.1

Tags

Pleasure craft

Description

Chris Craft Runabout Pleasure Craft. Mahogany hull with metal trimmings. Brown upper hull, with a green bilge and a white stripe separating the two colors. Leather seated interior with a hatch that opens up in the rear of the object

Context

Owned by Captain Marquis John Roen in 1937. He named the vessel “Solveig”. Dave Groh of Lakewood, Ohio Purchased the boat in 1971. Dave Groh then sold it to Gordon Hatch of Sturgeon Bay, who refinished the vessel and donated it to the Door county Maritime Museum.

Location

exhibit

SB-A-4

Building

SB-A, Door County Maritime Museum