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Chris-Craft 35 Commander

LOA: 35’0”

Beam: 13’0”

Draft: 3’0”

Displ.: 14,500 lbs.

Power: (2) 425-hp Crusaders

Fuel: 175 gals.

Water: 70 gals.

John and Jennifer Scanlon live in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and have a long history of freshwater boating on Green Bay and Lake Michigan. Native Midwesterners, they have a love of the water, which only grew stronger when they met and married in 1990.

A Chaparral 2350 served them well for a time, until they got out of protected waters. “We took a vacation across Lake Michigan one summer and got caught in some

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