Runabout (boat type)
A runabout ( English colloquially "small racer") is an open sports boot with two to eight seats, closed front deck and often a lying surface for sunbathing. This development began with wooden boats powered by aircraft engines left over from the First World War . The heyday of the runabouts were the 1950s and 1960s. Famous manufacturers are Chris Craft from the United States and Riva Motorboats from Italy . Runabouts are and were luxury boats, mostly made of mahogany, and popular as water ski and pleasure boats for the upper ten thousand .
literature
- Anthony Mollica Jr. / Jack Savage: Chris Craft Legends in Mahogany . 1st edition. Delius Klasing, 2003, ISBN 3-7688-1459-9 .