2025 Chris Craft 25 SPORTSTER

2025 Chris Craft 25 Sportster is powered by a sterndrive Mercury 6.2L V8 with 350 HP. The standard edition includes premium audio system, synthetic teak bow anchor locker, aft covering boards, helm footrests, swim platform, and power folding bimini top.

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Starting at $203,000, the Sportster 25 Surf is the company’s newest, smallest, and sportiest boat, engineered for wake-surfers skilled enough to bob behind a boat cruising at 11 miles per hour. The demonstration at the Resort at Longboat Key Club—10 miles from Chris-Craft’s Sarasota, Florida headquarters—hinted at the active lifestyle Chris-Craft wants to bring to its growing portfolio of wake-surf boats.

The foray into smaller, sportier boats represents untapped business for Chris-Craft. Before the pandemic, the company released two new boats a year, the industry standard. Now the made-to-order boat maker is launching three or four models annually, with many targeted toward aspirational buyers in their 30s or 40s.

“Above 28 feet, we have a customer who just wants what they want, and they’re not so focused on price,” Heese adds. “Below 28 feet, we have a more value-conscious consumer, and we can’t go crazy on the design enhancements that cost a lot of money.”

The renewed focus on a younger demographic represents a return to the company’s roots. Founder Christopher Columbus Smith built his first wooden boat, a skiff, in 1874, as a 13-year-old growing up on the St. Clair River in Algonac, Michigan. He parlayed his early efforts into designing larger, faster boats that attracted wealthy buyers, eventually becoming the world’s largest manufacturer of mahogany runabouts.

Chris-Craft debuted the $150,000 standard version of the Sportster 25 in July. The surf edition, which adds an expansive aft sun pad and a wide swim platform with a pull-out step for safe access to the water, followed in September.

Undeterred and using its own brand equity, Chris-Craft has launched three other surf editions since 2019, all based on the company’s more expensive Launch GT line. The Sportster 25 Surf is the first surf edition from the Sportster lineup.

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Get ready for the next 150 years of Chris-Craft – it’s a whole new experience, crafted for today’s adventure seekers and watersports enthusiasts. Combining classic Chris-Craft design with modern flair, the Sportster 25 redefines what it means to enjoy life on the water.

SLEEK USER INTERFACE:
-The Sportster 25 features a sleek dashboard with a custom Chris-Craft user interface to streamline navigation and controls. Enjoy teak accents and a leather wrapped stainless steel steering wheel.

STEP ABOARD WITH EASE:
-Connect to with the water with ease. With the new pull-down swim step, getting in and out of the water has never been easier.

COMFORT FEATURES:
-Configure the Sportster's seating layout with dual reversible helm seats. These multi-position seats offer the option to face either forward or backward. Convert these to face aft for optimal comfort while at rest.

PREMIUM AUDIO:
-Enhancing your onboard experience, the Sportster 25 options include a premium audio system with 6 JL Audio Speakers and a 10" subwoofer, all elegantly finished with custom Chris-Craft stainless steel speaker grills, delivering superior sound quality and an unmatched level of sophistication.

This New 25-Foot Wake-Surf Boat Blends Elegant Design With a Killer Swell

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Parker Payne, a 22-year-old professional wake surfer from Dallas, is trailing an elegant Chris-Craft as he ollies, spins, and carves his way across the Sarasota Bay, spouting a plume of frothy water behind him.

This boat is not your grandfather’s Chris-Craft. If feats of extreme Gen Z athleticism seem at odds with the 150-year-old boat builder’s elegant, understated image, Chris-Craft’s leaders hope its latest lineup will change that perception.