Tollycraft

{{Short description|American boat manufacturer}} {{Infobox company | image = Tollycaft houseboat.jpg | image_caption = A Tollycraft houseboat at Seattle's Fishermen's Terminal | founded = {{start date and age|1952}} | defunct = {{end date|1997}} | founder = Robert Merland Tollefson }}

'''Tollycraft''' was an American powerboat manufacturer in business from 1952 to 1997.

==History== '''Tollycraft''' was founded in 1952 as a wooden boat builder by Robert Merland Tollefson (better known as ''Tolly'').<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-01-24 |title=Northwest Maritime Center hosts exhibit honoring boatbuilder Tolly Tollefson for his 100th birthday |url=https://www.ptleader.com/stories/northwest-maritime-center-hosts-exhibit-honoring-boatbuilder-tolly-tollefson-for-his-100th-birthday,53207 |access-date=2025-09-01 |website=Port Townsend Leader |language=en}}</ref> In 1962 the company switched to building its boats from fiberglass. Tollefson sold the company in 1987, and it was bankrupt by 1993. Although it attempted to resume operations, the company went out of business in 1997.

Tollycraft was known to make high-quality boats ideally suited to the waters of its home in the Pacific Northwest.

==References== {{Reflist}} * Robert M. Lane, ''"Tollycraft: Family, Friends, Boats"'', Passagemaker, Nov. 2005, pg. 154. * Bruce Ramsey, "''Tollycraft: What The Have-Knots Have- Shipbuilder's Yachts Ride Wave Of Popularity - And Of Profitability''", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 27, 1989, Sec. Business, Pg. B1. * Richard Thiel, "''North Star 71 Pilothouse Motoryacht— Design Odyssey''", Power and Motoryacht, July 2000, [http://powerandmotoryacht.com/boattests/0700northstar71/ Online version]

== External links == *[http://www.nwyachting.com/articles/tolly/tolly.htm Northwest Yachting: Tolly Tollefson] *[http://www.tollyclub.com/ Tollycraft Boating Club]

Category:American boat builders Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1936 Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1997 Category:1936 establishments in Washington (state) Category:1997 disestablishments in Washington (state) Category:Defunct manufacturing companies based in Washington (state)