Topical Guide 873
Mark Dorset
Boats: Chris-Craft Triple-Cockpit Runabout
Memories: Conflicting
Leaving Small’s Hotel, Chapter 1:
“Welcome to Small’s,” she said. “It’s a pleasure to have you here. I’m Albertine Gaudet, the Innkeeper. . . . I apologize for the launch . . . . We call it a launch, but it’s really just an old boat, isn’t it? We used to bring people from the mainland in a handsome old Chris-Craft runabout. You would have liked that.
For some time there has been a lively, friendly, dispute over which Chris-Craft runabout Peter and Albertine owned. I am among those whose memory corresponds to theirs. It was a triple-cockpit runabout from the 1930s that had been restored at Raskol’s boatyard, with Peter doing some of the restoration work. I don’t know the exact year.
Here is a video of a 1930s triple cockpit in action:
You could have one of your own, or at least a model. This kit is available from Garrett Wade. Albertine would approve: she built a model of Small’s Hotel from scratch.
See also:
Boats: Clamboats of Babbington, Some TG 31; Clamboats: Morphology and Aesthetics of TG 49; Sailboats: Types: Yawl TG 709
Memory TG 57, TG 125, TG 574, TG 583; Memory, Faulty: Causes of, Results of TG 34, TG 133; Memory, Remembering, Forgetting, and the Search for Lost Time TG 22; Memory, Faulty, Causes of Distortion in TG 97; Memories: Relationships Among; Relationships to Present Perceptions TG 463; Selective TG 621; Memory: Prompt, Cue, Stimulus, or Catalyst for TG 792, TG 850
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