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sport15er posted 06-30-2000 10:46 PM ET (US)
I just got bk from seeing The Perfect Storm, if the boat could only have been a Whaler....
kingfish posted 06-30-2000 10:49 PM ET (US)
Me, too..."Whale" of a movie - G. Clooney didn't even drive me anywhere near as nuts as he usually does!!
Shadowcatcher posted 07-01-2000 12:35 AM ET (US)
Aren't there any Whalers in the movie? I once paid six bucks to see a Bruce Willis movie just for the Whalers. Unfortunately, the idiot sound men overdubbed jet engines instead of outboard sounds.
Shadowcatcher posted 07-01-2000 01:35 AM ET (US)
MSNBC is running a news special on the Storm this week:Saturday at 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. ET, Sunday at 3 pm ET; Monday at 7 pm; Tuesday at 1am and 1pm. I just saw part of it -- serious coastguard rescue footage etc. or visit their web site at http://www.msnbc.com/news/427171.asp
djmerrill posted 07-04-2000 09:37 PM ET (US)
Shadowcatcher:
Thats funny, I thought I was the only one that saw that movie. I think I rented it though. The whaler scenes were the only worthwhile part of the movie, or at least the only parts that I can recall. I do remember thinking it was a riot that someone dubbed turbine sounds into the soundtrack. I remember everytime they tied it up you could here it winding down. I kept thinking that it was one heck of a bilge pump!
For those of you that haven't seen it, some great shots of large outrages getting abused, but you have to put up with Bruce Willis playing the drunk washed up underdog cop...
Doug
lhg posted 07-05-2000 05:03 PM ET (US)
My own 25 Outrage, with me in it, was in a "made for television" CBS Movie of the Week back in 1991, and televised nationally at that time! It was called "Good Night, Sweet Wife, A Murder in Boston" and was about a fellow named Chuck Stewart who killed his pregnant wife, and when finally found out to be the killer, jumped to his death from a bridge in Boston. The movie was filmed in Chicago (City of Boston refused to allow the filming) and they were desperately searching for a Boston Whaler to duplicate the scene where his body was fished out of the water, by none other, a Coast Guard Boston Whaler!! It was an interesting experience to be in the film, and they even paid me $1000 for the effort. My boat was also hired to be in "Backdraft", also filmed in Chicago, but the footage got cut.
kingfish posted 07-05-2000 05:48 PM ET (US)
Larry, (as Sidney Greenstreet so eloquently said it) "By gad, sir, you are a character!"
I told Louis Kokonis that if I ever grew up, I wanted to have a boat like his; I am currently thinking that if I ever grow up, I want to have a life like yours!! ;-)
Great stories-
jcf
triblet posted 07-06-2000 12:59 PM ET (US)
I may be getting older, but I refuse
to grow up.
;-)
lhg posted 07-06-2000 01:54 PM ET (US)
That's the problem with all of us Whaler guys. If we had any sense, we'd all graduate up to the Euro 45' Sea Rays, complete with wet bars, cocktail tables, lounge seating, recessed lighting, bedrooms with attached bath, and generally all the comforts of home, and instead, have a Whaler for a tender!
kingfish posted 07-06-2000 05:57 PM ET (US)
CAUTION!! MIXED METAPHORS AHEAD
Never gonna grow up, never gonna grow up, never gonna grow up...No matter how many times I say it though, my hair still keeps getting lighter and less, and my pieces and parts keep breaking down...But I will not give up my Whaler until they peel my *cold*, *dead* fingers from around the throttle on my center console - or something like that...
Long live the lost boys! (Larry, sometimes in moments of weakness, I do wonder about "the life" on a 45' SeaRay with all the creature comforts, but then I think of all the places I've been fortunate enough to have boated in *my* boat by virtue of its trailerability and all the places I have yet to go, and I settle back in right where I am. Havin' my kind of fun my kind of way with a whole lot of easy options. Don't get no better than this...
TahoeChris posted 07-06-2000 10:04 PM ET (US)
I visited my buddy last weekend in the Delta (CA). He recently purchased a 2 year old 40 foot Bayliner or SeaRay (I don't pay attention to the make of the boat unless it's a Whaler). My wife and I spent half the day with him...SITTING ON THE DOCK NEXT TO THE BOAT. The bloody thing is so big it's a chore to get it into and out of the slip. I did get out on the water though, on his 6 foot Zodiac dinghy. Hard to relate how much fun that was. We left early so I could get home and take my Montauk down to Donner Lake for some evening fishing. No way I would ever buy a boat that 1) isn't a Whaler, 2) isn't trailerable and 3) forces my friends to wish they were out on the water instead of sitting on the dock. By the way, haven't seen the movie but if it's as good as the book, I'll be stoked. Happy whalin'.
jimh posted 07-06-2000 11:05 PM ET (US)
"The Perfect Storm" and I go way back...
We were down east in Nova Scotia in 1997. We flew in to Halifax and rented a car. On the car radio you can only get about 2-3 stations in most of Nova Scotia, and they're mainly CBC stations.
We were listening to "the literary hour" radio show with a young author whose book had just come out: Sebastian Junger and "The Perfect Storm."
We couldn't find the book on Cape Breton Island, where we happened to be, but as soon as I got back to the States I got a copy.
By the way, while in NS, we visited Port Hebert, Little Port Hebert, and East Port Hebert.
--Jim Hebert
jimh posted 07-06-2000 11:10 PM ET (US)
Oops.... forgot to add...
It was being around all that beautiful water in Nova Scotia and not having a boat that convinced us we had to get a trailerable boat.
We bought a Whaler later that summer!
--jihm
kingfish posted 07-07-2000 08:11 AM ET (US)
Jim,
Don't know if it was the same interview but at about that same time I was initially exposed to "The Perfect Storm" via an NPR broadcast featuring Sebastian Junger. I was so intrigued by his descriptions of the fundamental physics that affect and limit wave size, and by his treatment of various other aspects of the story that were further developed in the book, that I too rushed out to the library to get it. Didn't lead me to buy a Whaler (already had a Montauk), but it was a terrific read. BTW, Linda Greenlaw's book, "The Hungry Sea" (or "the Hungry Ocean", I'm not sure)is a great one, too.
jcf
Clark Roberts posted 07-07-2000 09:17 AM ET (US)
Re: growing up> Most of us suffer from "Whaleritus", a social disease spread by casual contact for which there is no cure, only constant treatment required! And I for one hope that no one ever develops a cure... hey, they're always trying... Happy Whalin'... Clark.. the Old Man and the Sea
dgp posted 07-07-2000 09:51 AM ET (US)
Clark, I refer to this social disease as "Whaler Simplex II". Don
lhg posted 07-07-2000 12:32 PM ET (US)
Clark: I'm convinced the folks at Brunswick/Sea Ray think they've found a cure, or at least are working very hard on same.
Amputation & surgery, resulting in systematic removal of the supposedly diseased models, seems to be helping.

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Author	Topic: Perfect Storm...
sport15er	posted 06-30-2000 10:46 PM ET (US) I just got bk from seeing The Perfect Storm, if the boat could only have been a Whaler....
kingfish	posted 06-30-2000 10:49 PM ET (US) Me, too..."Whale" of a movie - G. Clooney didn't even drive me anywhere near as nuts as he usually does!!
Shadowcatcher	posted 07-01-2000 12:35 AM ET (US) Aren't there any Whalers in the movie? I once paid six bucks to see a Bruce Willis movie just for the Whalers. Unfortunately, the idiot sound men overdubbed jet engines instead of outboard sounds.
Shadowcatcher	posted 07-01-2000 01:35 AM ET (US) MSNBC is running a news special on the Storm this week:Saturday at 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. ET, Sunday at 3 pm ET; Monday at 7 pm; Tuesday at 1am and 1pm. I just saw part of it -- serious coastguard rescue footage etc. or visit their web site at http://www.msnbc.com/news/427171.asp
djmerrill	posted 07-04-2000 09:37 PM ET (US) Shadowcatcher: Thats funny, I thought I was the only one that saw that movie. I think I rented it though. The whaler scenes were the only worthwhile part of the movie, or at least the only parts that I can recall. I do remember thinking it was a riot that someone dubbed turbine sounds into the soundtrack. I remember everytime they tied it up you could here it winding down. I kept thinking that it was one heck of a bilge pump! For those of you that haven't seen it, some great shots of large outrages getting abused, but you have to put up with Bruce Willis playing the drunk washed up underdog cop... Doug
lhg	posted 07-05-2000 05:03 PM ET (US) My own 25 Outrage, with me in it, was in a "made for television" CBS Movie of the Week back in 1991, and televised nationally at that time! It was called "Good Night, Sweet Wife, A Murder in Boston" and was about a fellow named Chuck Stewart who killed his pregnant wife, and when finally found out to be the killer, jumped to his death from a bridge in Boston. The movie was filmed in Chicago (City of Boston refused to allow the filming) and they were desperately searching for a Boston Whaler to duplicate the scene where his body was fished out of the water, by none other, a Coast Guard Boston Whaler!! It was an interesting experience to be in the film, and they even paid me $1000 for the effort. My boat was also hired to be in "Backdraft", also filmed in Chicago, but the footage got cut.
kingfish	posted 07-05-2000 05:48 PM ET (US) Larry, (as Sidney Greenstreet so eloquently said it) "By gad, sir, you are a character!" I told Louis Kokonis that if I ever grew up, I wanted to have a boat like his; I am currently thinking that if I ever grow up, I want to have a life like yours!! ;-) Great stories- jcf
triblet	posted 07-06-2000 12:59 PM ET (US) I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up. ;-)
lhg	posted 07-06-2000 01:54 PM ET (US) That's the problem with all of us Whaler guys. If we had any sense, we'd all graduate up to the Euro 45' Sea Rays, complete with wet bars, cocktail tables, lounge seating, recessed lighting, bedrooms with attached bath, and generally all the comforts of home, and instead, have a Whaler for a tender!
kingfish	posted 07-06-2000 05:57 PM ET (US) CAUTION!! MIXED METAPHORS AHEAD Never gonna grow up, never gonna grow up, never gonna grow up...No matter how many times I say it though, my hair still keeps getting lighter and less, and my pieces and parts keep breaking down...But I will not give up my Whaler until they peel my cold, dead fingers from around the throttle on my center console - or something like that... Long live the lost boys! (Larry, sometimes in moments of weakness, I do wonder about "the life" on a 45' SeaRay with all the creature comforts, but then I think of all the places I've been fortunate enough to have boated in my boat by virtue of its trailerability and all the places I have yet to go, and I settle back in right where I am. Havin' my kind of fun my kind of way with a whole lot of easy options. Don't get no better than this...
TahoeChris	posted 07-06-2000 10:04 PM ET (US) I visited my buddy last weekend in the Delta (CA). He recently purchased a 2 year old 40 foot Bayliner or SeaRay (I don't pay attention to the make of the boat unless it's a Whaler). My wife and I spent half the day with him...SITTING ON THE DOCK NEXT TO THE BOAT. The bloody thing is so big it's a chore to get it into and out of the slip. I did get out on the water though, on his 6 foot Zodiac dinghy. Hard to relate how much fun that was. We left early so I could get home and take my Montauk down to Donner Lake for some evening fishing. No way I would ever buy a boat that 1) isn't a Whaler, 2) isn't trailerable and 3) forces my friends to wish they were out on the water instead of sitting on the dock. By the way, haven't seen the movie but if it's as good as the book, I'll be stoked. Happy whalin'.
jimh	posted 07-06-2000 11:05 PM ET (US) "The Perfect Storm" and I go way back... We were down east in Nova Scotia in 1997. We flew in to Halifax and rented a car. On the car radio you can only get about 2-3 stations in most of Nova Scotia, and they're mainly CBC stations. We were listening to "the literary hour" radio show with a young author whose book had just come out: Sebastian Junger and "The Perfect Storm." We couldn't find the book on Cape Breton Island, where we happened to be, but as soon as I got back to the States I got a copy. By the way, while in NS, we visited Port Hebert, Little Port Hebert, and East Port Hebert. --Jim Hebert
jimh	posted 07-06-2000 11:10 PM ET (US) Oops.... forgot to add... It was being around all that beautiful water in Nova Scotia and not having a boat that convinced us we had to get a trailerable boat. We bought a Whaler later that summer! --jihm
kingfish	posted 07-07-2000 08:11 AM ET (US) Jim, Don't know if it was the same interview but at about that same time I was initially exposed to "The Perfect Storm" via an NPR broadcast featuring Sebastian Junger. I was so intrigued by his descriptions of the fundamental physics that affect and limit wave size, and by his treatment of various other aspects of the story that were further developed in the book, that I too rushed out to the library to get it. Didn't lead me to buy a Whaler (already had a Montauk), but it was a terrific read. BTW, Linda Greenlaw's book, "The Hungry Sea" (or "the Hungry Ocean", I'm not sure)is a great one, too. jcf
Clark Roberts	posted 07-07-2000 09:17 AM ET (US) Re: growing up> Most of us suffer from "Whaleritus", a social disease spread by casual contact for which there is no cure, only constant treatment required! And I for one hope that no one ever develops a cure... hey, they're always trying... Happy Whalin'... Clark.. the Old Man and the Sea
dgp	posted 07-07-2000 09:51 AM ET (US) Clark, I refer to this social disease as "Whaler Simplex II". Don
lhg	posted 07-07-2000 12:32 PM ET (US) Clark: I'm convinced the folks at Brunswick/Sea Ray think they've found a cure, or at least are working very hard on same. Amputation & surgery, resulting in systematic removal of the supposedly diseased models, seems to be helping.