This boat is an award winning boat and was fully restored with a complete engine rebuild and a new 5200 bottom. Lawrence River and later moved to Alabama and Florida. The boat spent many years in Chippewa Bay on the St. At the time they were the largest dealer of Gar Wood boats in North America. Buy a boat, sell your boat, or have us find you next classic! STOCK #31350 This rare Gar Wood Commodore was delivered to Fitzgerald and Lee boatworks in Alexandria Bay New York in 1946. Jan Saxton Yacht Documentation in Fort Lauderdale has in her research produced a Title (year built 1965) from Mr Garfield A Wood and Gar Wood Research Division.Īntique Boat America is your Premier Broker for Antique & Classic boats. The owner has researched this yacht and he believes that she was built in 1952 and raced by Gar Wood and his team. that held a 53.9 mph speed record from Miami to New York and this record was held for 35 years. She is a replica of Gar Wood's 1922 46 ft. Caterpillar Engines with 150 hours, New Shafts, Struts, Gears, Longitudinal cockpit deck, Transom, Dash, Head, New 600 gal fuel tanks, New 265 gal water tank, Hull was epoxied by Gar Wood in 1966, New $5,000 Raytheon bottom machine, Top Speed of 42 mph, When idling she uses 2.4 gallons per hour and has a speed of 8 mph, Over $400,000 spent in three year restoration. In 2007 the current owner started his re-fit with a lot of NEW parts and work listed below.2-455 h.p. This is Mr Gar Wood's personal race boat that he raced Miami to Bimini in 1966 and won!
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