From an article you can find on the Internets:
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Another Tolly trademark, stemming from his artistic sensibilities, was the use of color. While other manufacturers churned out boats with safely bland grey or white exteriors, Tolly boldly striped his boats with lines of teal — “Tollycraft turquoise,” later updated to a royal blue — and incorporated color into the interiors. It was a dramatic change for fiberglass boats, and some dealers initially needed convincing.
“Some dealers liked it, some of them didn’t. Our dealers used to tell me here in the Northwest that I was the best salesman they had,” Tolly said, laughing...
...It was the early 1950s, and there were few boat manufacturers in the Northwest making anything but custom wooden boats. Before long, word got around about Tolly’s runabouts, and people started asking for them. When the mill was destroyed by a fire in 1952, Tolly launched Tollycraft Yachts in Kelso with five employees...
...He opened a larger plant in 1959, building bigger, all-fiberglass boats and often introducing several new models each year. The company built more than 6,000 boats over the next three decades, ranging from 28 to 65 feet.
Tolly worked extensively with renowned naval architect Ed Monk — and later his son, Ed Monk Jr. — who would do the lofting and help refine the designs. But as Ed Monk Jr. once told Sea magazine, “We’re more like engineers. We seldom have to do much more than make minor changes to Tolly’s drawings. The inspiration and conception for each Tollycraft comes from Tolly himself.”
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