Inland Empire Antique & Classic Boat Society
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Latest News at IEACBS
Check out the latest news from IEACBS
and the newest articles in the Scuttlebutt. 🚤🌊
Checkout the four Dry Dock Tours (Boats and Brewed) this winter in the most recent articles in the Scuttlebutt. Thank You Paul Rodkey for putting these together, it was a great success!
Registration is now Open! Sandpoint Classic Boat Show July 11th - 13th, 2025
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Silver Wake Celebration 2025
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Registration is now open to celebrate twenty-five years of the Inland Empire chapter this year at the Sandpoint Boat Show’s Silver Wake Celebration.
Please send your registration form (attached) and check early this year, as some events will have limited capacity. All registrations need to be in by July 1st for us to have everything prepared to serve you at all venues for the show.
Come add your silver wake to the celebration of our club’s legacy.
We hope to see you there!
The Sandpoint Classic Boat Show team
Jan Keener, Chair
208-661-0530
keener@my180.net 🚤🌊
Whitefish Woody Weekend June 27-29, 2025 has once again been nominated in the FavoriteCommunity Event category in the Best of Whitefish 2025 Competition. We have come in 4th and 5th the last two years. Please take a minute to vote for Whitefish Woody Weekend and help move us into contention for Whitefish Favorite Community Event 2025. Voting ends Sunday April 6th. Click Here
2025 McCall Antique Boat Show
The Payette Lakes Chapter (PLC) of the Antique and Classic Boat Society is excited to invite you to participate in the 2025 McCall Antique Boat Show. The event will take place on August 1-3, 2025 at Payette Lake in McCall, Idaho. Similar to last year, this year’s boat show will also welcome “Flying Boats” (seaplanes) to participate. Quick Link
Celebrating 50 Years of ACBS: Inland Empire Chapter
Check out our article in the ACBS weekly newsletter celebrating 50 years of IEACBS. Click here to read article
Time to Register! Dry Rot Boat Show Aug. 29th - Sep. 01, 2025
Who’s ready to start thinking about summer and boat shows, especially the Priest Lake Dry Rot registration? Get your registration filled out and sent in. North Idaho’s Dry Rot Show never disappoints for a fun filled, exciting event using your boat or getting to ride in someone else’s boat. Rain or shine (or smoke)…the show goes on, so bring the appropriate clothing, keeping in mind you might see all kinds of weather – which seems to just bring more adventures & stories. Quick Link 🚤🌊 New to Dry Rot
Welcome NEW SPONSORS
Check out our new sponsors for IEACBS for the 2025 boating season. Welcome H & S Marine Service 6622 N Perry St. Spokane, WA. If you would like to be a sponsor please call Steve Zwarg. Thank you Alan & Lynn Thompson for your wonderful donation.
All About Us
Inland Empire ACBS was started from members who were already members of other chapters in the northwest. We realized there was a core of members and even more to be added in northern Idaho and eastern Washington, a group petitioned to be recognized as a chapter in 2000. Inland Empire Chapter is still part of the northwest group of chapters (Columbia Willamette, Pacific Northwest, Big Sky and Okanagan Chapters) and we coordinate our events throughout the summer so that there is always a near-by boat show with no overlapping conflicts.
By now, Inland Empire members come from far and wide, as do event participants, just to be in the beautiful scenery and in the clear lakes with their vintage boats.
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History of Inland Empire Antique & Classic Boat Society
The Inland Empire ACBS was started from members who were already members of other chapters in the northwest. We realized there was a core group of members and even more to be added in northern Idaho and eastern Washington, the group petitioned to be recognized as an official chapter in 2000. Inland Empire Chapter is still part of the northwest group of chapters (Columbia Willamette, Pacific Northwest, Big Sky and Okanagan Chapters). The Inland Empire ACBS has 120 members as of the winter of 2024 and hosts three boat shows during the summer (Sandpoint Boat Show, Coeur D' Alene Festival, and Dry Rot Boat Show at Priest Lake). Inland Empire ACBS also posts a newsletter called The Scuttlebutt and the Trading Dock. Third issue of the Inland Scuttlebutt Summer of 2001. Click to view.
Chris Knapton was the founding Inland Empire Chapter President.