It will surely come down to a toss of a coin as to what will spin more heads on Idaho’s shimmering Lake Coeur d’Alene this summer; the sight of this gleaming, mirror-varnished 34-foot wooden cruiser with its distinctive plumb bow. Or the tall guy behind the wheel with the number ’99’ on his sweatshirt? The boat doesn’t have a name yet, but it promises to cut a quite a figure on a lake already known for its classic wooden boats.

Hockey great Wayne Gretzky and his wife Janet took delivery of their new, custom-built Steinway 340 HT powerboat last September. But two days later, they’d closed-up their Lake Coeur d’Alene vacation home and headed south for the winter.

“We literally had a couple of days enjoying the boat before we left town. But we’re heading back next week, the boat goes back in the water, and then we’ll have the entire summer on the lake to have fun,” Gretzky tells Robb Report.

The Steinway was designed and hand-built for the Gretzkys by Coeur d’Alene wooden-boat specialists, Coeur Custom. Crafted from sapele hardwood using traditional double-planked construction, the open-bow day cruiser glows with its 16 coats of varnish and shiny stainless-steel trim.

“The couple wanted a classic day boat, with lots of space for family and friends, plus plenty of performance combined…