{"id":126,"date":"2014-02-08T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=126"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:38:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:38:36","slug":"1955-chris-craft-cobra-speed-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"1955 Chris-Craft Cobra Speed Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/12244396423\/\" title=\"Chris Craft by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Craft\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12244396423_74d9c826f4_z-300x225.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week son and I went to the Tulsa Boat Show and we saw all sorts of brand new boats all shiny and new with all the gizmos. My favorite was a wooden boat built in 1955, the Chris-Craft Cobra. I think wooden boats are beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/12244340533\/\" title=\"Chris Craft by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Craft\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12244340533_618766dbc4_z-300x225.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one actually has a wooden hull with a fiberglass engine cover with a big fin at the back and sure looks sporty. Plus the cockpit has a car style steering wheel. It is really not good for anything besides zipping around lakes at high speed. It has a top speed of 55 mph which is plenty fast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/12244779996\/\" title=\"Chris Craft by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Craft\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12244779996_8ca4eda5e8_z-300x225.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only 106 of these boats were ever made, all in one year so they are highly collectible. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manoftheworld.com\/blog\/icons-speed-1955-chris-craft-cobra\">Man of the World<\/a>&#8221; says the Cobra is &#8220;&#8230;a breathtaking fusion of prewar wooden handcraft and postwar American modernism.&#8221; Check out the link, it has great pictures of the boat in the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/12244713446\/\" title=\"Chris Craft by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Craft\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12244713446_115bb93459_z-300x225.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The old wooden speed boat just have a certain soul and warmth to them. Any boat though is a pain in the you know what to maintain and I suspect wooden boats are that in spades. But you know, it would be worth it to be styling, right? I can just see pulling that thing up to the yacht club to go have cocktails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/12244110633\/\" title=\"Chris Craft by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Craft\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12244110633_a1aae9d338_z-300x225.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember the movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082846\/\">On Golden Pond<\/a>&#8220;? They had a Chris-Craft wooden boat in it, a 1950&#8217;s model. Below is video with one of the boats used in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M83cANtSKUo?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The old joke that boat owners trade with each other is &#8220;The two happiest days of my life were the day I bought my boat and the day that I sold my boat.&#8221; I used to own a fishing boat when I lived near Houston. I loved it but I sure didn&#8217;t mind selling it when the time came either. What about you? Do you own a boat or used to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week son and I went to the Tulsa Boat Show and we saw all sorts of brand new boats all shiny and new with all the gizmos. My favorite was a wooden boat built in 1955, the Chris-Craft Cobra. I think wooden boats are beautiful. 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