Bad Ass Wooden Boats

There are some really nice wooden boats in this thread. I figured somebody here would appreciate the craftsmanship and may be able to rob a styling feature or two.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=275908&page=1&pp=25

 

Damn dude!! That looks like the place at Lake Tahoe!! We ended up there two years ago, when we were on our way to Bonneville!!
Those boats f*ckin' rule!! All Riva's and Chris Craft!! Some of the coolest things I've ever seen!!
I was already getting my photo albums to scan some pics but I recognize some of the same boats in this thread as we've seen back then...

 

Oh, haha... I just spotted "Tahoe wooden boat show" on top of the thread...

 

Tahoe is to cl***ic wooden boats what Pebble Beach is to cl***ic cars. Nice to see "Banshee" there again. It won Peoples Choice last year, considered to be the premiere award for that show.

Here are a few more pics of the boat when it was nearing the end of restoraion in Roy Domke's shop here in Sonoma County. It's a Western Fairliner, about 30 of them built in Seattle in '45-'46.




Check out this "boattail" . . .

 

My long lost uncle!! How many Domke's could there be?

 

This windsheld posts are neat. Do you happen to have a close-up of the center post?

 

Thanks for the photos, I was just up at Tahoe all last week, I wanted to go to north shore for the boat show but that didn’t go over well (no motor head **** on vacation) with the lovely wife.

My boss has a Hacker Craft with a 354 hemi he takes up there for six weeks (must be nice) every summer.
If you think old cars are a lot of work, try old wood boats. As soon as you think your done you mite as well start over.

 

<font color="purple"> Those are just magnifficent!!! What beautiful boats! Unreal!! Thats a whole nother demon for me. What I wouldn't do for a nice Chris Craft Runabout. But then I think about my kids one day goin to colledge and who's gonna pay fer that! Thanks again for the pix! </font>

 

Thats cool, for the past 3 months ive been building a small 15 foot wooden skift, didnt think anyone on this site would find it intresting, there a hell of alot of work, the one iam building is also covered in fibergl***, thats a *****, probably gonna get lung cancer from it or sumtin, o well, its all fun and games till someone loses an eye, then its just fun. those boats are great, wish mine was that nice lookin. hopefully ill be done with mine in a month or so, great post, love thos boats.

will