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Just for information purposes, in case any Whaler historians are interested, recently at a launching ramp in Door County, way up on the Wisconsin "thumb", I came across a fellow launching a 1976 SMIRKED HULL Sakonnet, complete with the mahogany console and mahogany Reversible Pilot seat.

In my case, I have NEVER seen a 1976 17' smirked hull in the Sakonnet version, even though the catalog clearly shows it to have been available. It seems at the time that everyone wanted the fiberglass console Montauk instead.

I did not have a camera avaiable, so don't have a photo. The owner told he only picked the boat up a few weeks earlier, for $3500. Engine was an OMC 90, and the boat may have been originally sold by Twin Cities. The hull was in remarkably good shape, no bottom paint, all original gelcoat.

It was interesting to see how the console was installed, which required some additional base mahogany fittings to conform with the boat floor. The reverse sloping windshield was missing.