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Hi Joe:

On 16 Apr 2019 a new Whaler Central member, jpanner, posted photographs of his Boston Whaler 16 bare hull. The photographs show a stencil number 3B0365 and a partial HIN ...6055..76C

The photographs also show the 3B0365 is a smirkless hull.

So, while 3B0364 has the smirk and larger bow locker, 3B0365 is a smirkless hull and small bow locker.

As you wrote back in 2016, the 1976 production year was a strange year for transition from smirkless 16 hull manufacturing to the smirked 17 hull.

I cite that it was Dick Cole who originated the phrase: "HYDRO-FUBAB." It was Bob Dougherty who attributed the phrase and used the term to describe the new Boston Whaler "Smirk."

Note: Hydrofubab is best translated to stand for (and bowdlerized): “hydrodynamic foulup beyond all belief."

2nd Note: Bowdlerized means material considered improper or offensive removed or changed.