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Mahogany for Everyone

For Patrick Gallagher, back in the day, it was all about the Streblow. That was the wooden boat of choice on Lake Geneva, a playground for city-dwellers from Chicago. Today, he says, the lake is filled with Cobalts and Chris-Crafts, but back when Gallagher was a kid spending summers there with his family, he saw mostly Streblows.

“It was the only flavor that people seemed to know,” he recalls.

The nostalgia of those wooden boats helped to ease his mind after the Covid-19 pandemic descended in early 2020.

Gallagher was thinking about

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