Chris-Craft
Christopher Columbus Smith’s boatbuilding firm in Algonac, Michigan, which became the world’s largest maker of wooden motorboats.
Christopher Columbus Smith built boats at Algonac in Michigan, and his family made fast mahogany motorboats. The company took the name Chris-Craft in the 1920s.
Chris-Craft built motorboats in series with methods from the car industry and became the world's largest maker of wooden motorboats. During the Second World War it built landing craft.
The name in script on the side of the hull; model names such as Runabout, Barrel Back and Capri.