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Review of 1966 Sakonnet 16 in Old Popular Science Magazine
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| Fishmore |
Posted on 04/30/10 - 7:03 AM
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I came across this article while looking at old Popular Science magazines on google. It's a review of a 1966 Sakonnet 16 operating in the Pacific outside San Francisco. Pretty cool.
http://books.google.com/books?id=yykD...mp;f=false
Found a couple of other Whaler articles too but this one was the most comprehensive. Besides the Whaler article the magazine has some great articles and how-tos besides the adds being interesting.
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| Vince56 |
Posted on 04/30/10 - 9:40 AM
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Thanks for the posting of this article. I have had a 1965 Boston Whaler for the past 37 years and agree completly with the review. The only difference I can see is the windscreen on mine is slanted aft instead of forward like this '66 model. They must be the same model. What a great boat it has been.
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| rieka9 |
Posted on 04/30/10 - 2:16 PM
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That was great to read, Thanks. Interesting was the Brunswick add on page 203 .
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| brorobin |
Posted on 04/30/10 - 5:17 PM
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Those were/are some great books. I spend hours as a kid looking at the waiting room magazines as I called them.
Robin Chaplin
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| edmaude |
Posted on 04/30/10 - 6:05 PM
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Great read, thanks for posting this......Now my wife can feel more at ease when we take the boat to Cape Cod in June for a week.
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| MW |
Posted on 05/01/10 - 12:51 AM
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That article was written when I was 6 yrs old., at age 8, I got my first boat ride ever, It was on a Sakonnet, I still remember my brother at the helm, and the throttle coming up on an 80 hp engine, with my father (now long gone) looking at me saying "Wow, we're on a BOSTON WHALER", I remember how fast it got going, as I grinned and the wind picked up as the spray started, and the boat bounced, MAN, I got so Whaler "HOOKED" !
Thank's for sharing the article !
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| RevengeFamily |
Posted on 05/02/10 - 4:38 AM
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That article truly nailed it... even down to the part where the author had to slide to the side of the console to avoid slamming his knee. Been there done that... Even back then people were crazy for Whalers... go figure.
My first experience with a Whaler was on my cousins 13'. We ran that boat all over the Metedeconk river in NJ.
Norm
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| Floridaman |
Posted on 06/08/10 - 4:14 PM
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As I read the article I noted that the engine was a 50hp FOUR STROKE. I thought outboard four strokes were something recently developed!
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| FishNFF |
Posted on 06/09/10 - 10:13 PM
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I remember seeing the original article.
Though I was born in 1966, I purchased my first Whaler, a 13 Sport, from Chuck Filli game of the Marin Boat House in San Rafael out of high school. He showed me an original copy of the magazine.
The Marin Boat House was well known to be the best rigger of Whalers around, and also the first Whaler dealer on the West Coast!
My 13 came with a 35 Evinrude, later repowered to a 40 Yamaha, then rebuilt to a 50. Sold to a buddy who still has it when I bought a Montauk.
Chuck sold the shop a while ago when Whaler required dealers to purchase a bunch of boats up front. I think that was done to make the company look bigger when it was sold to, I think, Reebok.
FISHNFF
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