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Own a Tollycraft?
We want to make this site the Tollycraft home on the internet.  We invite you to "meet" other Tollycraft owners in the "Tollycraft Room" and share information, find that "thingamajig" you've been looking for or trade favorite cruising destinations. 

If you have any suggestions, news, or any other input... please let us know.  We want to make this site a valuable resource to every Tollycraft owner, and anything you can think of that will help is appreciated.

Selling a Tollycraft? 
This is the BEST  place to be.  It costs only $195 to advertise your boat on it's own web page complete with photographs and detailed description (no word or picture limitations either). Send us everything you have!!

Buying a Tollycraft?
We've got em'.  Complete, detailed listings of every available Tollycraft in North America from BOTH private owners and yacht brokers.  If you don't find the boat you're looking for, drop a note into the "Tollycraft Room" and see if we can't shake one loose for you.

The History of Tollycraft

Founded in 1952,  Tollycraft earned a strong reputation for building good quality boats.  In 1978, Tollycraft introduced the 48 Cockpit model, it's largest boat at that time.  Tollefson retired in 1987 and sold the company to an investor group.  In 1993 the company filed for bankruptcy and production stopped.  It restarted soon thereafter under new management but closed again in the fall of 1997.  The largest boat in the Tollycraft line was the 65' Cockpit MY which was built between the years of 1992 and 1997.

 

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Gordon Harris,
President
Gus Communications, Inc.

 

 I was 4 years old the first time I laid eyes on a "cabin cruiser".  It was the summer of 1965 and the boat was a 1961 Tollycraft 31' Sedan Cruiser named "Damn Yankee II" owned by a close friend of our family, Harold Zielke... who passed away in 1998. It was kept in a boat house on Shuswap Lake at Sicamous, British Columbia.

On that particular day in 1965, Mr. Zielke brought his boat over to the beach where we were vacationing and took us for a cruise around the lake.  It was the biggest, fanciest boat we had ever seen.  My father happened to have his 8mm camera in hand and captured that moment which can be viewed by clicking on the following photograph.  It remains one of my fondest childhood memories. 

Harold Zielke was a true gentleman in every sense of the word.  One of those people who pass through our lives and we never forget.

Click on the image below to view a video clip filmed in 1965  (Cable or DSL connection recommended)
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This site is dedicated to the memory of Harold Zielke.  

Many thanks for visiting our site and please come back again ...often!

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