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This C. Raymond Hunt design delivers one of the best rides we’ve ever had on a small express cruiser, but construction materials and practices leave a lot to be desired, including lumber-grade plywood in the structural elements and a poor aluminum fuel tank installation.

The warped-vee bottom enables the Chris-Craft ûto handle much rougher waters than shown ûhere. It had no problem with a 3' chop during ûour sea trial.

Talk to any baby boomer who fondly remembers their grandparents’ gleaming 1950s or 1960s-vintage yacht, and they’re likely thinking of a Chris-Craft. These were the pleasure craft to have in their day (from mahogany launches to steel or fiberglass aft-cabin and flush-deck motoryachts and convertibles), distinctive looking vessels that you could recognize a mile away. Chris-Craft, in fact, used to be the biggest builder of recreational boats in the world. Unfortunately, the company lost its way over the years, enduring changes of ownership and a loss of corporate memory. The classically styled boats of the past were forgotten, and Chris-Craft gradually became just another look-alike, ho-hum, all-white express cruiser. …