Bay Harbor Foundation
Vintage Car and Boat Festval

Vintage Car and Boat Festival

The 2010 Bay Harbor Vintage Car and Boat Festival and Dream Cruise will be held the weekend of June 24th- 27th in the Village at Bay Harbor. The Public is welcome! Visit the Petoskey Area Visitors Bureau for lodging and area information.

Watch this site for information on the 2010 show. To give you an idea of the fun involved, here's details from the 2009 show:

The Festival kicks-off on Friday, June 26th; with the 4th Annual Bay Harbor Northern Michigan Dream Cruise from to Patrons can expect a fun filled family night of cruising during this 1950s and 60s themed evening. Visitors are welcome to bring their hot rod or muscle car and cruise the streets of Bay Harbor where local favorites will entertain throughout the evening. We will also feature great food, live entertainment, kids activities and an exhibit on how electricity is made.

The Bay Harbor Foundation teamed with electric automaker Global Electric Motorcars and are set to champion clean driving at the Bay Harbor Vintage Car and Boat Festival on Friday, June 26 at . As an annual fundraising effort that draws 8,000 10,000 spectators, the Bay Harbor Festival focuses on eco-driving this year by featuring old and new electric vehicles in its highly anticipated parade. Predicted to be the worlds longest display of electric vehicles, the parade includes a line-up of over 200 zero-emission GEM cars as well as other electric automobiles.

The Bay Harbor Festival has themed this years event Electric Atmosphere to celebrate the benefits of green transportation in the Bay Harbor community. As the nations first resort community to fully integrate the use of GEM battery-electric vehicles, Bay Harbor is a longtime advocate of environmentally sound transportation solutions. The Bay Harbor Foundation hopes that the parades impressive line-up will set a Guinness World Record for the longest parade of electric vehicles.

The Festival continues on Saturday, June 27th at with the Vintage Car and Boat parade in the Village at Bay Harbor featuring an exquisite display of motor cars from the early years, the classic years, post WWII, modified custom hot rods along side our electric vehicles. Plus, visit an exquisite display of wooden boats of the region's inland lakes at Bay Harbor Lake Marina. Awards will be announced at for vehicles and boats. The show closes at . We hope you will join us!

Listed below are the winners from the 2009 Vintage Car & Boat Festival. Thanks to all of the participants, this show gets better every year!


2010 Application

We're looking forward to seeing you!

Bay Harbor Village Hotel and Conference Center has on-site lodging available and may be reached through their website or by calling (888) 229-4272. For other lodging information, please visit the Petoskey Area Visitors Bureau or call (800) 845-2828.

Click here for the 2010 Application

2009 Vintage Car and Boat Festival Awards

A wonderful variety of classic vehicles were part of the 2009 Vintage Car & Boat Festival! A hearty Congratulations to the all of the winners:

2009 Boat Awards

Best in Show- 1953 Sheppard, - David Watts

Best Original- 1915 Ted Shea Courting Canoe, - Ken Kelly

Best Race boat-1935 Hacker Gold Cup Racer, - Lee Anderson

Most Elegant-1964 Whiticar Motor Yacht 63 Elegant, - Wilbert Hambert

Best Runabout-1927 Chris Craft Sugar, - Joe Reid

Best Replica1-1922 Fast Limousine,- Peter Breen

8 Honorable Mentions

1953 Renegade Iceboat- Jon Lofgren

1928 Replica built by Van Dam-Robert Forney

Replica of Hacker 31 Sport About 1954-William & Barbara Parfet

1954 Mayscraft Dayboat-Wilbert Hamstra

1929 Chris Craft-Thomas Ostendorf

1912 Fay-Bowen-Bill Ticknor

!960 Riva-Carter Pholman

1934 Flyer Canadian Race boat-Dean Dietrich

Boat Judges:

Thomas Flood, Mort Pomeroy, Jerry Vander Vusse, Diana Webb

2009 Automobile Awards

Best in Show-Dusenburg- Frank Riccadelli

Best Original-Pontiac GTO- Bill Lovett

Best Interior-Packard Convertible Victoria Darrin-Gene & Sally Perkins

Most Elegant Most Sporting-Cadillac Coupe- William & Barbara Parfet

Most Sporting-Excalibur Hawk RRS Roadster- Robert Shaw

Best Replica- Auburn Speedster- Tom Doolittle

Peoples Choice-Dusenburg-Frank Riccadelli

Automobile Judges:

Lolly Bezy, David Draper, Dick Thams, Diana Webb

"Best in Show" award ~ Martin Paul Sutter forhis Canim

"Most Elegant" award ~Robert Roskam for Pilgram

"Best Interior" award ~ Charles J. Andrews for Consolidated Launch

"Best Finish" award ~ Tom Mitler for Gen C B-K class -
Special Race Boat

"Most Sporting" award ~ Bill & Barbara Monro for Gold Cup Racer

Awards of Excellence went to:

Ronald Hooker ~ North M./Sugar Loaf 1

Wilbert Hamstra ~ Mayscraft Day Boat

Anthony Lasorsa ~ Chris Craft Custom

Dave Draper ~ Replicaof 1926 Hackercraft Gentelmens Racer

Larry & Salley Gathman ~ Chris Craft

Randy Almirall ~ Centry Teal Chris Craft Race Special Edition

Edward Herman~ Van Dam

Richard & Lynette Merillat~ Van Dam Commuter

Ken & Mary Kelly ~ Peterborough 44 Vanished Cedar

David & Pam Johnson ~ Hacker Replica

Jarvis & Ron Rokop Webb ~ 12' Lap Straight Jory/Johnson

John S. Winn~ 1995 Hacker Craft

Norman & Keeley Betts ~ Hacker Craft Dolphin

THANK YOU to all who participated in the 2009 Vintage Car & Boat Festival. We hope to see you in 2010!