Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance, Wooden Boat Show
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The annual Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance in Tahoe City, California is a three-day-long celebration of classic American watercraft, featuring custom and vintage antique wooden boats from the 1920s through the 1970s and beyond. The Concours d'Elegance boat show, also known as "Wooden Boat Week," was founded in 1972 by a group of Tahoe Yacht Club members, and today the Concours is run by the Tahoe Yacht Club Foundation (TYCF).
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Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance
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Tahoe City's Wooden Boat Week 2010
There are 15 judging classes, including antique wooden lakers, launches, blonde deck runabouts, gentlemen's racers, outboards, canoes, three-cockpit runabouts, fiberglass boats and utility boats. The sweeping lines, lush mahogany woodwork and ornate brightwork of these Art Deco and Depression era "woodies" exude a level of craftsmanship that is seldom seen today.
Enlarge: Tahoe City Yacht Club and Marina
1955 18' Chris-Craft Cobra - Class 14a: Classic Glass (Transitional Fiberglass, up to 1964)
1939 Miss Catalina VI 29'11" Bombard Speedboat - Class 13: Open Class
2003 Tomahawk 28' Stan-Craft Torpedo - Class 13: Open Class
1939 Thunderbird 55' Hacker Design Commuter built for George Whittell's Thunderbird Lodge - Class 13: Open Class
1959 19' Chris-Craft Silver Arrow "The Quiver" - Class 14b: Classic Glass (Full Fiberglass, up to 1964)
1922 Hacker Craft 29' GentlemenŐs Raceboat - Class 12: (Racing Runabouts)
Riva Super Ariston Boats & Aquarama - 1972 Sonata 23' (foreground) and 1963 Saphir II 22' (background) - Class 9
Enlarge: 2003 "Thunderchick" 36' Stone Boat Yard Commuter
1955 14' Aristo Craft Torpedo, the 'Savin Grace,' with 4-cylinder Mercury Outboard (Class 2: Outboards & Canoes)
1941 Gar Wood 28'6" Flagship Triple Cockpit Runabout
'Houston Girl' 1928 Custom-Hacker 151 Class 17' Pelican Raceboat (Class 12: Racing Runabouts/Gentlemen's Racers)
1926 Gar Wood 33' "Baby Gar" with 12-Cylinder, 500 hp Liberty Engine
1997 T-44 GentlemanŐs Racer by Brown & Bassett Racing
'Clementine' 1949 Chris-Craft 20' Custom Runabout
1975 Pedrazzini Super Aquamar (Class 9: Riva & International Entries)
Restoration of a 1916 Lawley 37' Vee-Bottom Launch
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