Red Dot Hull

[777AIA]

I have a 1986 SUPER SPORT 15 that I have owned for over 30 years. I have followed [continuouswave.com] for years.

Fig. 1. Red Dot Hull

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Tell me about the red lucite dot behind my Whaler logo?

I don't see it on anybody else's boat.

I am getting ready to restore this winter, and am trying to be careful about this dot. But I don't know what it’s made of, or why I have one and nobody else does.

Feedback appreciated.

[frontier]

The red dot designates your Boston Whaler has the "Workboat Specifications" option . Listed in the 1986 Boston Whaler "Boat Prices and Specifications" booklet as option number 15-0480-00. A $773.00 option in 1986. On a 15' boat, "Workboat Specifications " adds 90 pounds more glass and resin to the boat.

[777AIA]

Thank you. Good to know.

[jimh]

Information about a Red Dot Hull is given in the Frequently Asked Question answers. See

http://continuouswave.com/whaler/reference/FAQ/#Q2

The dot is gel coat resin.

[jimh]

The rub rail shown above is not OEM.

The Boston Whaler decal looks crooked.

Two problems to remedy in the restoration.

[biggiefl]

What engine do you have? That waterline is really high for a 15'.

[Don McIntyre - MI]

I think that hull is fairly rare. I'd bet not many 15-footers were ordered with workboat specs.

[biggiefl]

No doubt Don....I have NEVER seen a red dot 15". My concern is the waterline but not a concern with the correct answer from the owner.

[jimh]

I am not clear what particular advantage would accrue to having the 15-foot hull with heavier lay-up for a typical recreational boater. I owned a 1976 15-footer, one of the first hulls made, and it was quite light. I believe that the hull weight was noted as increasing from the earliest production hulls after a few years. Perhaps a heavier layup was used on those later models.

There was never any particular reason to want the hull layup to be heavier or to be workboat specification that I could see. My old 1976 boat is now 44-years-old. It's hull is still in perfect condition.

The non OEM-rubrail suggests perhaps the boat under discussion here has seen some hard use that damaged the original rub rail. Maybe the workboat layup was a good choice for its initial owner.

[Don SSDD]

I would have thought the commercial hull would add more than 90 lbs, my 18 outrages were 1250 lbs for regular hull and 1750 lbs for commercial hull, that’s 40% more for the commercial. With the 1986 15 weighing 500/550, 40% would be over 200 lbs. 200 lbs would effect the water line on a 15 foot hull.