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Tahoe Chris-Craft Wooden Boat Weekend — West Shore, CA — Homewood + Tahoe City, CA
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Tahoe Chris-Craft Wooden Boat Weekend — West Shore, CA

Destination: Homewood + Tahoe City, CANights: 3Group: 4–8Season: June, July, August, SeptemberEstimated: $1,800–$3,100 per person

A West Shore weekend in the rusticated old-Tahoe quarter where the lakefront cabins are still cedar-shake with stone chimneys. Saturday: a chartered 1947 Chris-Craft Sportsman wooden runabout out of Tahoe Vista — slow-throttle morning to Emerald Bay, picnic on a granite beach the captain knows, the bride driving the boat back across glassy water at golden hour. Stay at the Sunnyside Restaurant & Lodge, a 1908 lakefront inn. Saturday-night dinner at The PlumpJack Cafe (the wine list is one of the most decorated in California). Sunday: a slow morning at Hellman-Ehrman Mansion at Sugar Pine Point and a swim off the Tahoma dock. Decompression: pancakes at Fire Sign Cafe before the drive to Reno.

What she'll do

Boat Cruise

Sunset Cruise

Luxe Picnic

Spa

Where she sleeps

  • · Sunnyside Restaurant & Lodge
  • · PlumpJack Inn (Squaw Valley)
  • · Private rental — Homewood lakefront

Where she eats

  • · The PlumpJack Cafe
  • · Sunnyside Restaurant
  • · Fire Sign Cafe

Questions

Where do we charter the Chris-Craft?
Several outfits run captained classics out of Tahoe City and Tahoe Vista. The Chris-Craft 'Tahoe Lulu' (1947) and the Garwood-built 'Thunderbird' yacht (1939) are legends. Book 8 weeks out for August.
Closest airport?
Reno-Tahoe (RNO), 60 minutes by car. The drive over Mount Rose Highway at sunrise is part of the trip.
How is the West Shore different from South Lake?
South Lake is loud, casino-adjacent, jet-ski culture. West Shore is family-cabin culture, two-lane road, stone fireplaces, slow boats.

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