Are You Topless Boating?
I love these convertible tops
The heat is here to stay for a while, and in the afternoons if you are lucky a good shower and cool down. Either way you need a top on your boat so you can remain cool… looking. After all if you want comfort, get a barge with a top. But take that further and just stay inside and complain.
hard tops can be cool!
So i suppose in a way, you have to get out there in your Woody Boat, to save yourself and humanity. So today we are gonna feature some of the cool tops seen here on Woody Boater over the years.
Cool
Topless with a top
Gull Wing tops. I bet these are like saunas though
Oarnge ya glad you have a top?
These are cool as all get out, photo from last, last, last years Sandpoint show
Cool Gull wing!
WECATCHEMs duel use top. Its a true pain in the ass. I get why they are rare
Mitzy with a top and top, on top of a boat. Lots of tops
Tops in Canada
Plastic covered top in the workshop
PLAID TOP! Oh hell ya
Boat on top of a car top. I am so confused
Suzy/Scarlet with her original top in the barn
Green tops
Chris Craft and Century tops
Snazzy tops are the tops
Cool small hard tops – Center window is a must
A different snazzy top
More of a shelter top thing
LOVE
LOVE MORE GAWD, those lines. This is one of the Sexiest boats ever designed.
1928 Robinson Seagull Commuter (Flying Cloud) originally built for Ransom E Olds (REO) later sold to Al Capone
Sea Foam tops, and cups with foam you cant see!
I’ll just sit back here.
Funky tops!
Tops that look like churches
Lil top!
Out taking shots of tops under a top.
Cool Glaspar top
Shady tops!
AND OF COURSE IT ISNT A SHOW UNTIL….
Tops towing in tops!
Do you have your top on? If so share the love!
I prefer my boats topless. You can wear a hat to block the sun. The tops usually block the sun as well as the breeze and your visibility. Plus, most are too low and give you that closed in claustrophobic feel which is the opposite of the feeling of open freedom we seek when going boating.
But, without tops we wouldn’t have zipper stories which would be a shame.
Ya know, you’re just baiting Troy for pictorial comments today.
Good story today.I love tops especially in our area in southern Kentucky as it comes a storm at any time in the summer and the top keeps you mostly dry and your top also gets you out of the sun to have lunch. I love my top. Top of the day to you.
I love my top!!!!
Love my hard top. Gets us out of the sun and rain.
Top or topless, I just like to be on the water (preferably in a classic boat).
Top history of a 1959 23′ Chris Craft cruiser. At purchase in 1970, top down.
Top up. Canvas top was a pain to put up & down, And the fabric was due for replacement.
And balding father always wanted it up anyway. So he built this hardtop.
Nobody wants to see me topless.
Danny,
Beautiful boat. What is it? Sweet looking Evinrude, too.
1961 Skee-Craft 18′ Holiday Hardtop and ’61 Evinrude 75hp Starflite III. It was built in Intercourse, PA (weren’t we all built in intercourse?) My grandparents bought it new in Hagerstown, MD.
Matthews Boat Co. had their own ideas about topless boating in the 50’s!
Just a little NW flavor… 🙂
Poor People have poorways
1956 Chris Craft 25′ Express Cruiser
Plastic cover top looks like a 1938 sedan, any idea who owns it and where it resides. I have a 1938 sedan True Grit restored by Katz looking to see if any other are out there?
I think that boat is owned by Gary Cunningham, Michigan Chapter. You can look him up in the ACBS directory.
I am curious as to the number on the plastic covered sedan. MC? Michigan should be MI?
Not sure why, but for the third time, I am no longer allowed to post here?
Chris-Craft had such tops available for ANY boat they sold, I believe?
This drawing from CC (note – pre MM archives from Algonac parts dept, # B-2134), shows that even the 1938 prototype (single covering board, Bugatti windshield) 19-barrelback had this available.
I never pursued this because I couldn’t imagine getting my fat ass in and out of the boat at the dock?
A 1937 utility from way back.
Ask my brother Gary Visser about the boat he grew up with. The all new 1960 Glasscraft Contessa built in his hometown of Humboldt, Iowa. The Starflite 75 Evinrude was gracing her transom! Sliding side windows. A true thing of beauty….well maybe to someone…