Finally, in late 2017, Eric and Joleena bought a house on Lake of the Ozarks: at the 60 Mile Marker. Life happened: marriage, kids, and busyness, and Eric says they didn’t make it to the Lake as often as he would have liked.
And like many good Midwesterners, he vacationed to Lake of the Ozarks quite a bit as a kid, where his father taught him boating, and how to fish. Back Down To The LakeĮric was born and raised in Kansas City. In July 1965, Harley-Davidson officially shut down production of boats and narrowed their focus to only motorcycles. For another two years, boats wore the emblem “Tomahawk Boat-A Division of Harley-Davidson.” But the motorcycle company soon made the decision to get out of the boat business.
Franklin Winter was kept as president and general manager.īut less than a year later, Franklin Winter resigned as president and sold the rest of the stock to Harley-Davidson, making Harley-Davidson the sole owner of Tomahawk Boat Manufacturing Corp. Tomahawk was operated as a wholly owned subsidiary, and the business also took on molding of motorcycle and scooter parts such as saddle bags for Harley-Davidson. In the spring of 1962, the now-famous motorcycle dealership Harley-Davidson purchased a major part of the stock in Tomahawk Boat Manufacturing Corp. By the 1950s, fiberglass was transforming the boat-building industry, so Tomahawk stopped producing wooden boats in 1957 and focused entirely on fiberglass models.