Chris-Craft 47' & 60' Commanders originally relocated to the West Coast how?

I had a 60 ft Commander in Newport Beach that I put in charter service for 25 years. I bought it in Seattle and ran it down the coast to California. The people I bought it from bought it in Florida and ran it to Texas then had mechanical troubles and told me they had it trucked the rest of the way. It was called Planinum Lady and I renamed it White Light. It was a great boat for us after I repowered it and put in new tankage and stabilized it. A complete redo inside & out but was a great business which I sold last year. Originally named Small World and rumored to be owned by a member of the du Pont family.

In response to how some Commanders were relocated to the West Coast.

I can provide some information. In 1969 I delivered a 60' Commander "La Femme" for the new owner from the Chris Craft test center Pompano Beach, Fl to Los Angeles, California via the western Caribbean, Panama canal, homeport of Acapulco, Mexico eventually on to Marina del Rey,Ca

During the 70's & 80's there was a ship "Rice Queen" owned by a Rice grower co-op in the Bay area of California. The Rice Queen would transport rice from Stockton California to San Juan Puerto Rico then to Jacksonville, Fl to load Phosphate for fertilizer and travel back to Stockton. I arranged thru a freight consolidator to have the ship accept boats as deck load in Jacksonville to be offloaded by floating crane barge in San Francisco bay. This worked well for a few years until a longshoreman strike prevented the offloading of deck loaded boats

which included some Chris Connie wood hulls and were severely damaged by the heat.

When the Rice Queen ceased operation I started delivering boats from Florida to Caifornia and Seattle area by way of Central America. Panama canal. Delivered for Chris Craft Pacific from 48'-74'Chris Roamers, many Hatteras yachts, Catalina express (2) 140' passenger vessels These deliveries continued until 2000 when dockwise and other yacht transport ships started west coast operations.

Scott, I assume many of the 47 Commanders were delivered by water from Pompano Beach up the east coast and into the Great Lakes. If that was the case, did you run any new 47 Commanders into the Cleveland area in the early '70s?

I did not deliver anything from Florida to the Great lakes although we did numerous deliveries of Chris Roamers from Holland Michigan down the Illinois & Mississippi rivers to Pompano Beach and others on to Central America and California. about 1973 we did move a new 47' Commander to Acajutla El Salvador.