Today marks the highly anticipated release of a collection that’s making waves in both the fashion and seafaring circles. Tombolo’s collaboration with Boston Whaler® – America’s most iconic boat builder — is now officially available, and it lives up to our briniest maritime fantasies. The collection comprises eight unique pieces, or nine if you count the boat Tombolo is restoring.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Tombolo Tombolo’s co-founders, Chris Galasso and Mike Sard, explained the inspiration for the partnership: “We grew up with Boston Whaler. A 1974 Boston Whaler ’13 was the boat that fired our lifelong passion for adventure on the water. Its faded ‘Whaler Blue’ deck served as the stage for our best summer memories — memories that formed the foundation of our aesthetic vision for Tombolo.
Since day one, it’s been a dream to collaborate with a company we admire so immensely and have enjoyed so personally.” This collaboration comes on the heels of several successful partnerships with the brand, like the Le Sirenuse x Tombolo collection , giving the same nautical nod. Boston Whaler has been an iconic fixture among the American seafaring crowd for over seventy years.
Since 1952, it has made boats that have become synonymous with adventure and durability. It was vaulted into the national spotlight in the early 1960s when founder Dick Fisher was photographed in Life Magazine aboard one of his 13-foot Boston Whalers as it was being sawed in half. He wanted.