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If you keep your boat out of the sun when not in use, your exterior varnish should be good for 3 years if you use the boat twice a week. Interior varnish lasts much longer, as it does not receive as much direct sunlight. Revarnishing involves removing all the hardware and crash padding (if any), sanding, fixing any proud bungs or broken screws, and generally adding about 3 coats. The actual varnishing only takes 1-2 hours per coat, but the hardware removal, sanding and hardware installation takes around 70 hours. If you want to learn to do this yourself, we are happy to give you some guidance. Of course, you can always have this maintence done in our classic boat restoration shop.

Identify Your Chris Craft
Runabout Hull Numbers

A Free Resource for Classic Boaters

Chris-Craft stamped a unique hull number in several places on each boat they built. Early hull numbers were simply a number series, but later on they implemented a system that incorporated the model and length into the hull number. They also maintained a file of hull cards for every boat built.

The hull cards noted the model name, hull number, upholstery color, engine, prop size, shipping date and many other details. Today the Chris Craft hull card file resides at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia, where you may order a copy of the card for any boat.

Length Feet	Year	Model	Hull Numbers	Wood Color
15 1/2	1932-1934	Deluxe Runabout	15000/15698	Varnished mahogany
15 1/2	1933	Special Runabout	40000/40034	Varnished mahogany
16	1934-1936	Deluxe Runabout	30000/30280	Varnished mahogany
16	1935-1936	Runabout	16000/16281	Varnished mahogany
16	1937-1940	Special Race Boat (Barrel Back)	42000/42166	Varnished mahogany -or- Dark blue sides, red & white deck with varnished mahogany transom
16	1941	Deluxe Runabout	57000/57371	Varnished mahogany
16	1941-1942	Hydroplane (stepped bottom)	42501/42519	Varnished mahogany
16	1946-1949	Special Runabout or Rocket	R16-001/R16-1040	Blonde and mahogany deck, blue painted sides.
16	1950-1951	Riviera	RC16-001/RC16-174	Varnished mahogany & blonde
17	1930-1931	Runabout	14000/14225	Varnished mahogany
17	1937-1939	Deluxe Runabout	71000/71528	Varnished mahogany
17	1940-1942	Deluxe Runabout (Barrel-Back)	71529/71954	Varnished mahogany
17	1942	Special Runabout	17-100/17-340	Varnished mahogany
17	1946-1950	Deluxe Runabout	R17-001/R17-1880	Varnished mahogany
17	1953-1955	Runabout In 1953 some were called "Rocket"	D17-001/D17-243	Runabout: varnished mahogany Rocket: painted blue with rocket graphic
17	1956	Runabout	D17-1001/D17-1094	Varnished mahogany
17	1957-1958	Runabout	D17-2001/D17-2236
18	1932-1935	Runabout	18000/18466	Varnished mahogany
18	1934-1936	Deluxe Runabout	33000/33207	Varnished mahogany or varnished mahogany & walnut
18	1935-1936	Special Racing Runabout	18434/18448, 18454	White and (blue??)
18	1949-1954	Riviera	R18-001/R18-1210	Varnished mahogany & blonde
18	1955	Cobra	BR18-001/BR18-051	Varnished mahogany & blonde
18	1959	Capri	CP18-001/CP18-064	Varnished mahogany & blonde
19	1935-1938	Custom Runabout	48000/48327	Varnished mahogany & walnut
19	1936-1937	Special Race Boat	19000/19050	White & yellow painted
19	1939-1942	Custom Runabout	48500/48932	Varnished mahogany & walnut or varnished mahogany
19	1948-1954	Racing Runabout	R19-001/R19-503	Varnished mahogany
19	1955-1958	19' Capri	CP19-001/CP19-786	Varnished mahogany & blonde
19	1960	19' Capri	CRA19-001/CRA19-112	Varnished mahogany & blonde
19	1961	19' Capri	CRB19-001/CRB19-060	Varnished mahogany & blonde
20	1930-1931	Runabout	7001/7291	Varnished mahogany
20	1946-1949	20' Custom Runabout	R20-001/R20-366	Varnished magogany & blonde
20	1950-1954	20' Riviera	R20-501/R20-788	Varnished mahogany & blonde
21	1932-1934	Special Runabout	20000/20016	Varnished mahogany or varnished mahogany & walnut
21	1932-1934	Custom or Deluxe Runabout	21000/21055	Varnished mahogany or varnished mahogany & walnut
21	1955	Cobra	BR21-001 BR21-055	Varnished mahogany & blonde, gold painted fiberglass fin
21	1955-1956	21' Capri	CP21-001 CP21-170	Varnished blond & mahog
21	1957-1959	Capri	CP21-201/CP21-244	Varnished mahogany & white paint
22	1927-1931	Runabout (Triple-Cockpit)	1000/1999 11000/11057	Varnished mahogany
22	1935-1939	Custom Runabout (Triple-Cockpit)	22000/22137	Varnished mahogany or varnished mahogany & walnut
23	1940	Custom Runabout Barrel-Back Bugatti Windshield	22138/22169	Varnished mahogany or varnished mahogany walnut
23	1941-1942	Custom Runabout Barrel-Back Folding V Windshield	22200/22225	Varnished mahogany
24	1928-1931	Runabout (no roof), and Sedan (with roof)	2002/2628
25	1933-1938	Custom Runabout	25000/25075	Varnished mahogany or varnished mahogany & walnut
26	1922-1931	Custom Runabout 1922 - 1928 triple-cockpits had flush decks.	001/999	Varnished mahogany The hull cards do not indicate whether the deck was upswept. Some early ones were flush deck split cockpits. A few upswepts were built in late 1928.
26	1922-1931	Custom Runabout 1929, 1930 and 1931 triple-cockpits had upswept decks. Hull 878 = 1929 Hull 989 = 1930	001/999
26	1930-1931	Runabout Triple-Cockpit with upswept deck	9000/9025 10000/10127	Varnished mahogany
27	1932-1941	1932-39 Custom Runabouts were raised deck triple-cockpits.	27000/27061	Varnished mahogany
27	1932-1941	1940-41 Custom Runabouts were barrel back triple-cockpits. Only one 1940 remains.	27000/27061	Varnished mahogany
28	1929-1931	Custom Runabout (triple-cockpit)	3000/3177	Varnished mahogany or Varnished mahogany & walnut
30	1929-1930	Custom Runabout (triple-cockpit)	4000/4015

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