Welcome to the Antique & Classic Boat Society Northern California/Lake Tahoe Chapter

The South Tahoe Wooden Boat Classic
A Vintage Boat Show for Charity
Sign up by June 1 to assure your boat will be in the show program.  

Featured below is a boat appearing in the show.

1959 Century 19 Ft. Resorter  with Graymarine Fireball V-8 – 225 HP Engine

Name of Boat (although not painted on transom); PG & ME
Owners:  Don and Sylvia Leutz, South Lake Tahoe , CA

This boat was the first boat purchased from the 1959 San Francisco Boat Show at the Cow Palace .  It was used a few times in the California Delta, but most of its life has been spent on Lake Tahoe during the Summer.  In 1965, the original owner of the boat, Perry Davis, who was a Bookbinder, purchased one of the very first Tahoe Keys Condos and since that time the boat has been berthed at Tahoe Keys, as we now also own the same condo and private boat dock.  The boat has been placed in Winter Storage at Sierra Boat Company in Carnelian Bay for most of its winters. 

I personally knew the original owner and have used this boat on Lake Tahoe since I was eight years old and the boat was new.  I actually have photo documentation of the boat’s usage at Lake Tahoe through the years as well as the original Bill of Sale, Century Boat Company Warranty, newspaper clipping of the San Francisco Boat Show where the boat was purchased as well as other original documentation.

I purchased the boat from the original owner in 1984 and have owned the boat ever since.  Shortly after I purchased this boat I joined the Northern California/Lake Tahoe Chapter of the ACBS under President Glen Wilson, a wonderful man who invited me to his lakeside home for the awards ceremony and picnic after the new chapter of the ACBS held its Boat Show that year at Chambers Landing.  I may not be a Charter member of the Norcal/Lake Tahoe ACBS Chapter, but I am certainly one of the very first members of the Chapter and I thank the late Glenn Wilson for his kindness and generosity toward me.

This boat has never been restored and has only been refinished (sides and deck) one time.  Everything about this boat is original, although some of the upholstery, mainly the seat cushions and motor box, have been replaced using the original Century Boat Patterns and closely matched vinyl. I am in possession of the original seat cushions which are still in good shape.  All chrome and accessories are original.  The original optional sliding top has had its vinyl replaced twice in the last 50 years. 

The bottom of this boat has never been replaced and only has been re-fastened once since the boat was new.  The engine is the original engine, although it was re-built a few years ago.  The boat operates exactly like it did in 1959 and can maintain its original speed.