New, Elegant Beau Lake Runabout: A Pedal Boat Designed After a Riva Aquarama
The new elegant, high-style Beau Lake Runabout is definitely not your grandfather’s pedal boat, the big white plastic contraption that you’d often find in city lakes and amusement parks. Indeed, its designers say they were inspired by the lines of a Riva Aquarama. With its mahogany deck, inch-thick leather seats, reverse transom and gracious tumblehome, the Beau Lake would be at home in any first-class dock or boathouse from Lake Tahoe to Lake Como. “Traditional injection-molded plastic pedal boats stand out like sore thumbs,” says Paul Lavoie, the co-founder and CEO of Beau Lake. “Nothing about them blends into the…