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As for the Smirked Sakonnet details, Chuck Bennett has supplied a lot of new info.>>>

"Looking through the old handwritten shipping records; HIN BWCB6648M76I was built in our old Rockland, MA factory as a 17' Sakonnet model and was originally shipped out to a Mamaroneck Marine, in Mamaroneck, NY, on 4/20/76.

I counted quite a few Sakonnets were built after this one".

Joe, I've seen this boat and the stencil & HIN are verified. Should you add this to your list of boats? I don't know where you would add it b/c you don't have 17 Sakonnets

It gets better. I asked what was the last one built, and info on the forward platform.>>>

"I counted 27 Sakonnet models in 1975.

32 Sakonnet models in 1976.

Only 4 Sakonnet models produced in 1977.

The last one, that I could find, was serial # 3B1768. This was picked up at our Rockland, MA factory by F.L. Tripp Marine, out of Westport, MA on 11/17/76 (as a 1977 model).

The Sakonnet platform would have been mahogany, or, there was an available forward seat instead of the platform".

I tried to reconcile why the owner of the above boat, and the dealer who sold the boat, were so sure it was the last boat when it is clear there were more Sakonnets sold after. I think at the time it was the last one built, but there was pressure from buyers, since the last one was sold in April, and BW ran another production run of the furniture, say like 20 or 24. Which explains why there were 1977 models for sale.

Regardless, in 1976-77 there were only 36 Sakonnets made. How many of the 1976 models were Smirked? Out of 32 maybe half of them?