ChrisCraft - Enthusiast Color Series Author:Jack Savage Chris-Craft is a name synonymous with classic wooden powerboats. Founded in 1922 with a simple idea--to deliver the joys of powerboating to the middle class by building standardized runabouts--Chris-Craft grew to be a world-renowned maker of quality mahogany pleasurecraft. Chris-Craft is a rich, colorful history of the powerboats that popularize... more »d boating, and all the great boats of Chris-Craft are covered, including: Runabouts, including the famous barrelbacks