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Joe - that date is a mistake, I am sure. I believe the last Ribside made was hull #00722, and just before that, they mixed in a few earlier numbers of the newly done Smoothside. Maybe something like 00718, 00719, etc. Chuck Bennett told me the last ribside was the 00722 boat, and would have been manufactured sometime before Aug 1, 1972.

I am familiar with this boat that is being offered on Ebay. Don't hold me to the exact information, but it has been floating around for several years here in the Midwest, first offered for sale in Harbor Springs MI, a high end boating market.
I last saw it advertised up there about a year ago, for 42K, before eventaully being sold. From my perspective, the boat is badly overdone, over detailed and outfitted with too much woodwork, none of it original to Whaler's design.

I believe (but am not sure) that Mike Stennett of Nautical Lumber did the restoration as a project boat for profit, and then had a hard time selling it. All things said, the woodwork is beautiful and the kind of work Mike does - real yacht quality work. I think the original poor condition hull may have cost $2500. But it's not my kind of Whaler - too much homemade design and detail. And I don't like painted Whalers.