vintage 1950 tomahawk 14 original wood wooden boat 10 hp johnson chris craft tr

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Vintage 1950 Tomahawk 14' Wooden Boat with Chris Craft Trailer, 1955 10 hp Johnson Seahorse Motor and gas tank. Boat appears original please see pictures for details, wood is in exceptionaly beautiful condition, paint has some crackling due to age, has been garage stored for several years. Need to make room so it's gone with no reserve. Some aluminum has been rubbed hard on outside of motor cover but the remainder of motor looks mint, motor was tested several years ago and started right up. Trailer appears to be in good condition for age, tires are old and hub grease should be checked before moving too far.

Franklin Winter founded Tomahawk Boat Co. in Tomahawk, WI, in 1940s and at first the firm made wooden boats, primarily of cedar strip construction but eventually of plywood. Sometime in late 1940s or early 1950s, Winter began experimenting with then-new fiberglass, at first using it to seal wooden boat hulls, and eventually to build entire boats from molds. Winter is considered to be one of the pioneers of what became an explosion of middle-class boating after World War II, thanks to the advent of relatively inexpensive fiberglass boats.

During the heyday of its fiberglass boat business in the 1950s, Tomahawk was one of the country’s leading manufacturers. Evinrude used Tomahawks exclusively in its catalog one year, the U.S. pavilion at the Brussels World's fair had a Tomahawk fishing boat, and Winter’s futuristic racing boat "On Target" (which is still maintained by the local historical society in Tomahawk) was featured in Newsweek on the Today television show during a boat show in New York City. "On Target," with its fighter-plane-like fuselage, was part of Winter’s extensive involvement in boat racing. And Tomahawk advertising brochures of the period almost always used pictures of its boats with Winter’s children at the controls and/or riding.


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