On Feb 26, 9:46Â*pm, Chuck Gould wrote:
On Feb 26, 9:18�pm, Tim wrote:





On Feb 26, 10:43�pm, Chuck Gould wrote:

Why the discrepancy?

There's a good chance that Tolly built some boats on a small scale
before he expanded to 8 employees and a factory. Tolly must have been
factually able to say he had been bulding boats since 1936, even if he
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that's what I was thinking. I wasn't wishing to rebuke Wally, but was
wondering if there might have been a Tollycraft "Boats" and also
Tollycraft "Yachts". Same ower, seperate companies? Same company,
different divisions? �Pre, and post WW2 registrations,etc....

It isn't unusual to run into people tracing Chris Craft back to the
1880's; which is possible to do from the perspective that Christopher
Columbus Smith and his brother Hank starting building boats together
prior to 1890. The construction of "Chris Smith Craft" boats (soon
informally refered to as Chris Craft) didn't really begin in earnest
until 1922 when Chris Smith & Sons Boat Company was formed, but even
by 1915 Chris Smith was already advertising his services as a boat
builder in Power Boating Magazine and Smith was building some award
winning racing boats.

Sometimes its hard to put an exact date on when a company is
"founded", and those who start a company often exercise the privilege
of considering the date they first did any sort of business in the
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Oops. Looks like I was wrong about Chris Craft claiming to have been
founded in the 1880's. According to the Chris Craft web site they were
"Established in 1874"

http://www.chriscraftboats.com/legend.aspx