When the wooden boats come out on Tahoe With their sensuous curves, handsome appointments, and powerful engines, Lake Tahoe's finest wooden speedboats are sights to behold. Originally bought by Tahoe's wealthy from the 1920s into the 1950s, they recall a bygone era, when land baron Sydney Ehrman ferried guests in a chauffeur-driven launch "Comet" to his Sugar Pine Point estate from a railroad spur line in Tahoe City.
You can see many of these craft, beautifully restored and ...