Going Back In Time
Several years ago when we bought our 22’ Chris Craft Continental 1955 from Mahogany Bay it was almost out of desperation. We had dreamed of living on the lake ever since moving here and realized that dream in the early 1970’s.
Since then we have had a 26 foot fiberglass cruiser, a fiberglass runabout and a Class C Scow followed by a Pierson Ensign keel boat. Each of these extended out families enjoyment of life on the lake. But it always waned after a couple years and became just another day driving people or sailing people around the lake. The boat was a means of transportation and uninteresting and unimportant to the occasion.
When we first saw the lake, a boat was going along the highway that must have been a Chris Craft. It was 1973 and my wife said, “I would love to have one of those wood boats some day.” I spouted the common wisdom that they cost thousands every year to maintain and refinish and we never would go through that. 
Fast forward to 2005 and we set foot in “Double Nickel" for the first time - ever since we have had a “NEW LIFE” on the lake. We go out literally every day that we can, even if it is for a ten minute trot around the bay before a storm. It is literally like going back in time every time we get into it. Each guest marvels at the feeling of being on a boat the transports you to a place and time when life on the lake was simple but somehow much more luxurious than today’s bling-bling cruisers and new fangled electronic techno-crafts.
So thank you Todd and crew for refreshing the best part of our lives here and for the fantastic service and quality of workmanship. The sight of more and more wood boats on the lake makes it even more fun.
Our boat is what the ride on the lake is about these days and without it we would be just driving around in some form of transportation rather than having our day transformed by the boat itself.
Sincerely,
Gary and Joan Marquardt
