[Jeff_H]

Chris Craft built two or three diiferent 35 foot sailboats. The first was a 1960''s era center cockpit motorsailor. These were nice boats in a lot of way. They sailed reasonably well for a motorsailor of that era, which is to say that they were capable of sailing in a pretty wide range of conditions, but they were not great sailors compared to non- motorsailor sailboats of that era, and are very poor sailors compared to more modern designs. These boats had fiberglass hulls but the deck and cabin were constructed the way you would build a wooden boat, so careful maintenance would be critical.

In the 1960''s Chris Craft also offered a 35 foot sailboat but I don''t think that many were built because they were pretty close in price to the 37 foot Apache and so I have never actually seen one in the flesh.

The third 35 foot Chris Craft was a motorsailor built in Asia during the 1970''s. These were miserable boats on all counts. I have a fair amount of direct experience with these boats. They were poorly built, poor sailers and miserable to work on.

Good luck,
Jeff