- Tollycraft
Tollycraft was a US powerboat manufacturer which is no longer in business.
History
Tollycraft was founded in 1936 as a wooden boat builder by
Robert Merland Tollefson (better known as "Tolly"). In 1962 the company switched to building their boats fromfiberglass . Tollefson sold the company in 1987, and it was bankrupt by 1993. Although it attempted to resume operations, the company was dead by 1997.Tollycraft was known to make high quality boats ideally suited to the waters of its home in the
Pacific Northwest .References
* Robert M. Lane, "Tollycraft: Family, Friends, Boats", Passagemaker, Nov. 2005, pg. 154.
* Bruce Ramsey, "Tollycraft: What The Have-Knots Have- Shipbuilder's Yachts Ride Wave Of Popularity - And Of Profitability",Seattle Post-Intelligencer , January 27, 1989, Sec. Business, Pg. B1.
* Richard Thiel, "North Star 71 Pilothouse Motoryacht— Design Odyssey", Power and Motoryacht, July 2000, [http://powerandmotoryacht.com/boattests/0700northstar71/ Online version]External links
* [http://www.tollycraft.net/ www.Tollycraft.net]
* [http://www.nwyachting.com/articles/tolly/tolly.htm Northwest Yachting: Tolly Tollefson]
* [http://www.tollyclub.com/ Tollycraft Boating Club]
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