1933 18 foot Chris Craft 1933 deluxe

It is the ride that’s sold this model during the depression. Get aboard and experience what classic boating is all about. Chris Craft stayed in business, kept the 55 members of the Smith family with food on the table, just making boats. Chris Smith was in his early 70s and his sons were in their forties. The ladies keep track of the hull information in the office.

This double cockpit Deluxe 302 Chris Craft boat is powered with a marine engine 6 and handles a good size chop on a bay or river waterway. She is 18’ long and a narrow 5’ 10”. It cuts through the water. They made some 453 of this model over the 1932 through 1935 model year run. This one is a 1933 model year and a beauty.

Chris Craft kept up the quality of their boats during the depression. They had made a new factory 10 years prior and was set to make high quality boats with top shelf hardware.

Introduce yourself to this boat’s owner, Chip Paradis, and be ready for a smile and a conversation that comminates his infuse for classic boating.

While most classic boaters love the process of upkeep of their boat, this boat pays that back many times over and gets a lot of use on the water.

Documentarian Chris Brown