Gar Woods over the years (Part I)

Gar Woods over the years (Part I)

How many Gar Woods does it take to fill a lake? Over the past century, Lake Tahoe has been home to dozens of the highly prized speedboats built by early 20th Century boat racing champion Garfield A. Wood. This plethora of Detroit-built watercraft in use on Lake Tahoe, high in the Sierra, was owing in large measure to the strenuous promotional efforts of Homewood Gar Wood Agent Jacob P. “Jake” Obexer, who by the end of the 1931 boating season had…