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Boat Owner(s) ___________________________________________________________________
Address __________________________________________ Phone ( ) _________________
City & State ____________________________________________________ Zip _____________
Summer Address (After________ ) ___________________________________________________
City & State ____________________________________________________ Zip _____________
Email Address (Please print) ________________________________________________________
Year Built ___________ Length _________ Engine ______________________________________
Builder ______________________________________ Model ____________________________
Boat Name__________________________ Home Port __________________________________
q I DO NOT Want my boat judged q Enter my boat in Junior Acheivement Award
Boat Show Registration
Committee Use
REGISTRATION # __________
CLASS __________
LIABILITY CLAUSE FEE: $3500
Make fee payable to: Antique Wooden Boat Show Committeeand mail to: Registration CommitteeP.O. Box 177, Hessel, MI 49745 or e-mail: [email protected] phone 906-484-3193
Fee covers self, spouse, and children under 12, PLUS a Participant’s Plaque and Courtesy Parking. Registration must be received by July13, 2021 to guarantee printing in the Souvenir Program. All registrations received by August 9, 2021 are guaranteed to receive the information packet. Any registration received after Thursday, August 12, WILL NOT be judged and may not be docked with boats in their class.
Signature
I accept and assume full liability for any injury or loss tome or my property at any time, and from any cause, on thepremises of the show. I expressly release the managementfrom liability for such loss or injury and agree to provideand pay for my own insurance.
The Les Cheneaux Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show is held in Michigan’s Eastern Upper Peninsula just 35 miles North and East of the Mackinac Bridge.
The boat show is always held the second Saturday in August at the Hessel Waterfront. Features at the boat show include:Launch ramps, nautical exhibits, live enter-tainment during the day, boat excursions of the Les Cheneaux Islands and food concessions.
Hessel can be reached by car, plane or boat. The Albert Lindberg Airport has a paved 3,700 foot runway. If traveling via highway, take Exit 359 off I-75 and drive east on M-134 just 14 miles.
For more information concerning the boat show, please phone (906) 484-2821, email [email protected] or visit our website at www.lciboatshow.com For accommodations please check www.lescheneaux.net, www.lescheneaux.org or call the Les Cheneaux Chamber of Commerce at (906)484-3935.
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Brochure printing sponsored in part by Sault Printing Co.
Spectator Admission charge:12 years to Adult: $8.00
Children under 12: FREE
q 1 – Runabout, 0-16 f t. q 2 – Runabout, 17-18 f t. q 3 – Runabout, 19-20 f t. q 4 – Runabout, 21-24 f t. q 5 – Runabout, 25 f t. and over q 6 – Utility, 0-17 f t. q 7 – Utility, 18-20 f t. q 8 – Utility, 22 f t. (Chris Craft Only) q 9 – Utility, 21-24 f t. q 10– Uti l i ty, 25 f t. and overq 11– Lapstrake Skif fs
Please check the classification of your boat
“I certify that this boat is % original”
q 12 – Outboard q 13 – Launch q 14 – Sailboat q 15 – Cruiser, pre-1974 q 16 – Canoe Dinghy
*17 – Contemporaryq 18 – Classic Non-Wood (pre1978 & less than 28 f t) q Fiberglass q Metal q 19 – Racer
The committee reserves the right to verify and monitor classification
* Contemporary - A wooden boat built from 1980 to present. Please register under boat style, i.e., a contemporary 18’ runabout would be registered under Class 2.
Les Cheneaux Islands
August 14, 2021
43rd Annual
AntiqueWooden
Boat Show
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The Boat Show
The Antique Wooden Boat Show andFestival of Arts is sponsored by the Les Cheneaux Historical Association, in cooperation with Mertaugh Boat Works, Hessel Harbor Association and the Hessel Marina. The Historical Association uses proceeds from this event, along with other contributions, to maintain and enhance the Historical and Maritime Museums, both of which are located in nearby Cedarville.
Festival of Arts ............10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Juried Art Show Pancake Breakfast........7 a.m. - 11 a.m. Opening Ceremony..................10 a.m. Awards Ceremony.....................4 p.m. New for 2021 - Local Classic Car Display Entertainment throughout the day. Food Concessions........10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Narrated Channel cruises exploring the beautiful Les Cheneaux Islands.... 10:15 a.m., 12;15 a.m., and 2:15 p.m. departing from Hessel Marina aboard Isle Royal Queen IIIWatch the Woodies as they leave the docks following the awards ceremony Dockside Traders A sales area featuring antique boat products and related materials. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
John and Diane Grenier, local artists,will be on hand to sign their poster commemorating the Les Cheneaux
Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show.
If you would like a 2021 poster sent to you early, please contact the Les Cheneaux Islands
Antique Wooden Boat Show at (906) 484-2821
No dogs, alcohol, or smoking allowed inside the gates
Schedule of Events
The Les Cheneaux Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show, held each year in Hessel, Michigan, has been a major attraction since it began in 1978. The show averages 150 entries each year and is one of the largest shows featuring antique and classic wooden boats. Some of the country’s finest boats call the beautiful Les Cheneaux Islands home. Many of these boats are used daily during the summer months as a primary mode of transportation to and from the cottages dotting our area’s 36 sheltered islands. Les Cheneaux has a rich heritage in boat building and repair. Our craftsmen continue to offer some of the finest restoration and repair services available. Entries in the boat show arrive each August from as far as California and Florida and include dinghies, rowboats, canoes, launches, sailboats, utilities, runabouts, large cruisers, racers and classic non-wood.
Festival of Arts Held in conjunction with the Antique woodenBoat Show is the Festival of Arts. Artists displayand sell a variety of artwork, including photo-graphs, paintings, pottery, stained glass, textilesand jewelry. Around 65 of the Midwest’s finestartists participate in this juried show.
2021SHOWCASINGFriday - August 13th
Classic Car Show - Motorcycles welcome Registration, Library...10 a.m. - 12 noon Awards................................4:30 p.m. Downtown, Cedarville Cocktail Reception For Registered Boat Owners & Guests (ONLY) Great Lakes Boat Building School, 485 S. Meridian Street, Cedarville
Saturday - August 14th Boat Show - All events at Hessel Marina
Lapstrake Boats
“2019 Best of Show”- 2019 Jim Bohn People’s Choice Award
Be sure to stop by the museums whileattending the Antique Wooden Boat Show and relive the rich history of our area.
Please consider bringing your lapstrake boat to Hessel this year. A special award will be given to the one judged “Best”.
There have been well over fifty builders of lapstrake boats in the recreational boating market. Lapstrake construction gives the builder and user benefits that include increased hull strength, allowing the use of fewer side frames which also reduces weight. This design gives a rounded chine, which results in an improved ride in rough seas; also, the edges of the planks act as splash rails keeping the riders dry.
The largest lapstrake builders were Lyman Boat Works of Sandusky, OH; Thompson Bros. Boats of Peshtigo WI; and Chris-Craft Corp. of Algonac, MI.
Lyman was founded in 1875 by two brothers; they built wood boats into the early 1970s. The Lyman Boat Works built over 60,000 lapstrake wood boats between 1929 and 1973. The smallest was an 8 ft. speed tender, and the largest was a 35ft Express Cruiser built in 1971-72. Lyman also built larger carvel planked boats up to 47 ft. during the 1930s.
The Thompson family started 80 years of boat building in 1904 and eventually formed two more boat companies: T & T Boats and Cruisers Incorpo-rated, all in Wisconsin. Most of these were powered by outboard motors. Cruisers Yachts now builds fiberglass boats in Wisconsin
Chris Smith built lapstrake rowboats on the St. Clair River in the late 1800s. His family grew that business into the “World’s Largest Builder of Power Boats”. In 1953 they started building the Sea-Skiff line of lapstrake boats, and soon started a new plant in Salisbury, MD where they built over 12,000 lapstrake boats ranging in size from 18 to 43 feet. Chris-Craft is under new ownership and currently building fiberglass boats in Sarasota, Florida.
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