With all this frenzy over the 23' hulls out of Cortland, New York, both in the Lancer and Commander configuration, I decided to obtain some original literature (ebay) for our collection here. It's a 1968 original magazine ad for the 23' Commander, and it's clearly from another era. The boat looks VERY COOL as we have learned to expect, but get a load of this marketing pitch:

"Let the squares keep buying the boats thy deserve."

It's a single page ad from a 1968 YACHTING magazine. I'll scan it tomorrow and upload it here onto this thread, stay tuned!

Regards,

Paul

Take a walk back to 1968, some of us remember what it was like. Imagine you're a guy old enough to be able to buy one of these!! Must have been nice to have the cash and be in a position to be in a Chris Craft showroom back then.

Paul, thank you for obtaining and posting this info. There just isn't much out there about this model in print, they didn't make many and they didn't waste any money on excess brochure material. This is the same photo I see in the Essential Guide too, but this one is much better, along with all the sales info. Yes, you can tell it was written in another era.

50 boats in 1968

65 boats in 1969

Tom