Boating News
Tahoe home to classic wood boats
By Brendan Riley, [email protected]
CARNELIAN BAY, Calif. -- History, the handiwork of craftsmen and more than 120 carefully restored and meticulously maintained classic wood boats will be on display at the Tahoe Yacht Club's annual 'woodie' show.
The main event of the 30th annual "Concours d'Elegance" will be the public show Aug. 9-10 at the Sierra Boat Co., where boats -- some pricey and all classic -- will again take to the waters of Lake Tahoe.
The show, dedicated to preservation of boats that have plied the lake since the 1920s, is expected to draw several thousand people, ranging from the curious to wooden boat devotees who attend all the major shows around the country.
The event also will feature a weeklong series of picnics, dinners, a boat parade and other get-togethers for the wooden boat crowd at various locations around Tahoe.
This year, the show's focus is on Hacker-designed craft, including the one-of-a-kind, 55-foot-long "Thunderbird" -- floating proof of the old line that boats are holes in the water into which lots of dollars are poured.
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