Tenango: An Elco Flat-top

摘要

Elco cruisers, although built assembly-line fashion and known as "standardized," were among the best of their type-right up with Consolidated, Chris-Craft, Wheeler, and Richardson. Nearly 80 "Flat-top 42s" such as TENANGO were built during the 1920s and '30s, and back then you could take your Elco right back to its builder for storage and maintenance at season's end and pick her up ready to go come spring. But by the time Elco, as a yacht builder, folded around 1950 that option had disappeared, as had the New York City showroom called Port Elco.