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Dick posted 12-16-2007 02:17 PM ET (US)
What boat did you have back in the 1960's? As it was prior to my Whaler days I had a 21' wooden cruiser on the Chesapeake Bay south of Annapolis.
fishgutz posted 12-16-2007 03:37 PM ET (US)
We (my dad) had a 15 foot SeaSprite (sort of a trihull) with a 33 Johnson. We all learned to waterski behind it. Nice boat and great memories. It was actually a center console model with cable steering. The mold was used by SeaSprite, SeaStar, Starcraft, and a few more. We pulled it behind a Ford Galaxie 500.
Those were great times. I think you can still find those times in northern Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan to name a few. Mostly in the time warped rural areas.
Read anything by Wisconsin author Michael Perry.
Truck, A Love Story or Population 485, Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time. They are present day true stories but they'll take you back to simpler times.
macfam posted 12-16-2007 04:56 PM ET (US)
We started back in 1962 with a wooden 16' Old Town lapstrake with a 40hp Johnson. This brand was popular in New England, Old Town Canoe Co. in Maine.
It was a wonderful boat, a true "classic".
My next door neighbor Rick bought a used (1958)
Boston Whaler with a 40 Johnson. Actually Rick had a severe problem with the hull delaminating just at the waterline, med-section of the bow.
He was treated very well by Falmouth Harbor Yacht Sales and somehow got a new hull. I think he paid something, but very little.
He finally put a 50 Mercury 4 cylinder on the back...what a rocket!
The reason Rick bought the 50hp was he HAD to beat Duncan Scribner who had a 13' with a 45 Merc.
I just loved that little 13' with the 50. And that motor just purred at idle.
Maybe that's why I just won't give up my 13' Super Sport. Just love that boat!
fabricator posted 12-16-2007 04:58 PM ET (US)
Thanks for the link! That was a great trip back in time. We didn't own a boat then, but we used to rent a wooden rowboat on Greenwood Lake in New York from time to time. My uncle would bring his Evinrude Light Twin, clamp it on the transom, and we'd go fishing. Great memories.
Binkie posted 12-16-2007 05:32 PM ET (US)
Thanks Dick, it brought back a lot of memories for me, the sixties was a tough decade,--compared to the fifties.
Just married, bought my own first boat. A noname 13 ft. plywood runabout, that was used as a Mercury test boat on Lake X in Fl. Powered it with a Mark 20 Merc., of course. Had to sell it when the wife became pregnant, it wasn`t a family boat. Went boatless till `71 when I got an 18` Thompson.
Rich
frontier posted 12-16-2007 05:44 PM ET (US)
Good topic, Dick.
When I was a kid, our family had a 14' Dorsett boat with a Mark 20 Merc on it. On a Tee Nee trailer - they would rust just looking at them.
It seems like most all the boat trailers back then had 8" wheels. For larger capacity, they went to dual axles with 8" wheels!
jjandpop posted 12-16-2007 06:27 PM ET (US)
Thanks for the memories!
I had a number of no name boats but in 1964 I purchased another no name 13' that had a 50 HP Mercury that we used for water skiing on a small lake outside Mt Ranier NP. In 1968 I purchased a 20 foot Seacraft with a 140HP OD. Great boat in Florida.
Jim
Kingsteven18 posted 12-16-2007 06:39 PM ET (US)
My dad had a 16' runabout that was actually made by Hinckley Yachts. When the original Mercury blew, we got an Evinrude Lark. I got to start taking it out by myself (on the south shore of Long Island / Freeport) at the ripe old age of 13, and no-one worried about anything back then.
scottfarm posted 12-16-2007 07:00 PM ET (US)
My dad had a 16' Lyman with mahogony bow, gunnels, seats and pop out windows and a 35 johnson. He made me and my brother sand and refinish it every year.
Binkie posted 12-16-2007 07:17 PM ET (US)
Hey King, I got my start in boats at 13 on Woodcleft Canal too, back in the `50`s. Bet your dad bought the Lark from Al Grover.
rich
JayR posted 12-16-2007 07:19 PM ET (US)
Old farts! I was born in the sixties :-0
1964 to be exact.
It's nice feeling young (er).
Hal Watkins posted 12-16-2007 07:26 PM ET (US)
My memory is a little fuzzy as I graduated HS in '67. My Dad bought a 14' "Yellow Jacket" with a 35 Johnson from my future brother in law when he got sent to Viet Nam. My future wife and I skied togther behind that 35 many miles.
fourdfish posted 12-16-2007 08:11 PM ET (US)
Thanks Dick, brought back some old memories! BTW JayR, I graduated HS in 1964!
Binkie posted 12-16-2007 08:18 PM ET (US)
Jay, your life has been condensed, you seem older than me;-)
rich
jimh posted 12-16-2007 08:45 PM ET (US)
I didn't have a boat in 1960 (as I was only ten years old), but I do have a lot of great memories of sailing with my Dad in a Flying Scott at the boat club on the Detroit River.
frontier posted 12-16-2007 09:30 PM ET (US)
Anybody remember the Glasspar boats from the 1960's? They had a factory here in Olympia, Washington. We had a 1966 Glasspar 14' Marathon with a 50 Merc. Beautiful boat - red gelcoat. Nice ride with the semi-vee hull.
WhalerAce posted 12-16-2007 09:51 PM ET (US)
I remember riding around on a mid-60's Glaspar Seafair Sunliner. It was probably around 17' but I was only around 10 at the time, but I do remember that it was an awesome boat. It had a Mercury 800 (80HP) HUGE engine on it, and was a great ski boat.
That was my first exposure to the Whalers, too, as the Wateree Sailing Club had a couple of 13' chase boats.
I rode in my first Evinrude boats (a 19' Rogue and a 16' Reveler) during the late sixties, as well.
My own personal boats were a 9'9" aluminum jon boat from Sears (cost < $100) and a 14' homemade kayak, made out of 1"x1"x14' spruce spars and canvas (that was painted to make it waterproof).
Ah, back in the good ole days . . .
jimh posted 12-16-2007 10:22 PM ET (US)
I saw a 50-year old 1957 Glastron--Is that different than Glasspar?
Photo Link
Dick posted 12-16-2007 11:15 PM ET (US)
There is no connection between Glastron and Glasspar.
I believe all Glasspars were built here in the PNW, when I was a Glastron dealer in the late 70s they were built in Texas.
BTW Jim I don't appreciate you changing the title of my thread. [TOPIC was "For those old enough to remember'; also removed link to music video with 1960's nostalgia music. Contact Dick via email for the URL to the 1960's music nostalgia video.-jimh]
frontier posted 12-16-2007 11:18 PM ET (US)
Glasspar and Glastron were two different companies. The classic Glasspar G3 sportboat is very collectible. It looks great even by today's standards. Classic enduring lines kind of like a Porsche 911 (and about the same age). May never go out of style.
Lil Whaler Lover posted 12-16-2007 11:33 PM ET (US)
Glastron and Glasspar. Ironically, Glasspar was bought out by Larson. After Irwin Jacobs bought both Glastron and Larson, he merged the lines so they are very much duplicative of each other today.
I have fond memories of 4 boats from the 1960's. First was a 1960 Lone Star Little Fisherman, 12' cartop aluminum. Second was a 1961 Crestliner Mustang 14" fiberglass. Third was a 1955 Penn Yan model CZT Swift. It counts as the 1960's because it did 42 mph with its 1967 20 hp Mercury on it. Lastly was the 14" Amesbury Skiff rented many times in Noank CT.
Chuck Tribolet posted 12-17-2007 04:58 AM ET (US)
What boat did I have in the 60's? Musta been a rubber tub
duckie -- I woulda been < 10 years old.
I had a job interview with Texas Instruments in Austin TX
in the spring of 1972. There was a Glastron display in the
airport. I remember metalflake paint and NO freeboard.

Chuck
sapple posted 12-17-2007 08:26 AM ET (US)
Back then I was a kid paddeling around in a local creek in Clearwater Flowida in a 50 gal steel drum that had been cut in half length wise.
jimh posted 12-17-2007 09:54 AM ET (US)
What I find most interesting is that if you had a Boston Whaler 13-footer from 1960, you'd have a boat that they were more or less still making today. You can't say that about too many other boats from 1960, can you? Any candidates?
frontier posted 12-17-2007 10:29 AM ET (US)
If you look at the classic lines of a 1960's era 17' 6" Glasspar Seafair Sedan cabin boat, you see hints of the 1980-on Boston Whaler Revenge.
JMARTIN posted 12-17-2007 11:37 AM ET (US)
A 15 foot Skagit Plastic with a 35 Lark pull start. Amazingly fast, scary in high speed turns, and in chop you could bounce right out of the boat. I really wanted a Glas-Ply. John

bayliner bob posted 12-17-2007 12:06 PM ET (US)
yo dog I think this discussion is about the boat you had in the 60's. I had 14 ft homemade wooden skiff with a 5hp Gale.
gamble posted 12-17-2007 12:33 PM ET (US)
Not much water around Lovelock, Nevada, but I remember experimenting with various rafts made from innertubes and plywood. I think I may have actually invented the first float tube! it was a truck tube with sandwiched plywood to which I bolted the seat of a kitchen stool. My mom always wondered what became of that stool, but I was pretty desparate to get to those ducks floating on TC's Slough each winter.
A later version had a fabric bag around it, holding the plywood down in the tube, the theory being that the center of gravity would be lower and the recoil wouldn't tip me into the ice and water.
Finally in about 1969 I liberated an old Grumman 15' canoe from Lake Lagunita at Stanford, painted it camo, and still use it to torture the ducks and geese in western Nevada.
First of several Whalers--1985 15'Supersport that still live at my house!
Thanks for stirring up the memories!
David
Whalerdog posted 12-17-2007 12:40 PM ET (US)
I had a small wooden runabout with a windshield. Spent all of 1967 fixing and painting it. It had a 25 Merc which was white. Went for a ride and knocked the bottom out the first day and it almost sunk. 1968 I got a new 14' Chrysler Charger 118 with a 55 Chrysler. Boat did about 30 MPH. Next year I put a 55 Evinrude new triple cylinder which made the boat go 40 MPH which was fairly fast back then. The motor was stolen and I had no insurance so I sold it. I worked at a marina when I was a kid and drove a inboard ski boat that went about 100 mph in 68-69.
I did not get another boat till 1983 25' Checkmate that I started racing offshore. Then went to Skaters from 24-40 feet ending in 1998.. I just saw a 14' Chrysler same boat on ebay for 4,000 which was a 1971 and never had a motor mounted on it. I wanted to buy it but it was in CA and I am on Long Island and shipping was nuts!.
Tohsgib posted 12-17-2007 12:44 PM ET (US)
Even though I was born 8/9/69, I was out in my parents 16 Nauset on Labor day weekend cruising with the 40hp Johnson in a crib under an umbrella. Yeah...Whaler was in my blood since birth.
Binkie posted 12-17-2007 12:54 PM ET (US)
I have two outboards from the sixties, that are still in service, not just for show, a 1966 Johnson 3hp, and a 1969 Merc 75, 7 1/2 hp. I use them as kickers
Rich
Ridge Runner posted 12-17-2007 02:08 PM ET (US)
My dad had a late 60's 23' Thunderbird, this boat was designed by Dick Cole who invented the original "Cathedral" tri-hull. The boat was very simular to the Thunderbird Iroquois that was used on the TV show flipper. Lots of folks use to ask my dad if it was the boat from the show.
jimh posted 12-17-2007 04:38 PM ET (US)
Re the missing link to a music video of 1960's nostalgia:
CONTINUOUSWAVE really does not collect links to music videos of nostalgic 1960's popular music. Also, we don't collect reviews of random music videos, either. And we don't encourage submission of links of favorite music videos, as well.
contender posted 12-17-2007 04:44 PM ET (US)
First boat 1962 13 whaler (brand new) father purchase it for me and my brothers. I forgot what HP motor it came with then but it was an Evinrude (pull start). My father bought a Bimini top and an extra 6 gal tank with the boat, Had a white trailer I think it was a Seminole. Mom would drive us to the ramp and we would be gone all day. We use to island hop all of the islands from 135st (Miami) north to Key Biscayne south. Boy the times have changed. We still have the same Whaler today.
mitch13 posted 12-17-2007 07:32 PM ET (US)
My friend and I built a 15' Glen L ski boat and mounted a 60 HP McCulough. He flipped it in the ocean outside the breakwater at Long Beach, CA and the motor is still there I presume.
macfam posted 12-17-2007 08:27 PM ET (US)
jimh,
You're right Jim, not too many boats built in 1960 are still being built today like the 13' Boston Whaler.
However, I can think of a few, all made in the great boat building state of Rhode Island.
The ever popular Amesbury Dory. 12, 14 and 16 ft.
See: www.stur-deeboat.com/
And some of the most beautiful boats I know, that may be the best re-sale values anywhere.
The Dyer 10' "dink", the venerable Dyer 29, and the Dyer 40
See: www.dyerboats.com
Although these may not be the classic 'production' boats like the Boston Whaler, they are similar in their 'classic' design and utility. All have stood the test of time, quite short lived in the boating industry.
jimh posted 12-17-2007 09:05 PM ET (US)
I have been admiring those Dyer 29's for some time, and they seem to hold their value even better than old Boston Whalers.
Tohsgib posted 12-17-2007 09:21 PM ET (US)
I know it is 160's which I already posted about but...My first boat(1978) was a 9' squall. I got my 2nd in 1981 as a 1964 13' with a 25hp....happy days!
brisboats posted 12-18-2007 11:12 AM ET (US)
I was born in the 60's too so my memories are limited to the bathtub boats mostly plastic. I did own a 1962 Glaspar G-3 dual cockpit for a time and converted it to a 20" transom, the boat really flew with a 75 horsepower Stinger. To answer Jim's question the one boat I can think of that would give the Whaler 13' a longevity run would be the Sunfish produced by AMF-alcort. I think it was introduced in the late 60's or thereabouts.
We did have a wooden ribbed old canoe in the 70's and my still living the 60's hippie Dad was to enviornmentally conscious to purchase any stinkpot power. I spent hours and entire Summers paddling that leaky 17' canoe. Lucky for me our neighbors had a tin Starcraft with a 6 horsepower mercury. Riding around the an Adirondack lake in the bow of that boat at what seemed like warp speed were some fond childhood memories. One of those Summers I made a vow to never paddle again as soon as I could afford it. It took a long time but eventually I did get my own powerboat. It took awhile after that to come into the Whaler faithful.
Brian
cbgann posted 12-18-2007 08:50 PM ET (US)
Thanks for the Memories: 13' Aristocraft "SeaFlash" with 35hp Evinrude and later a 45hp Merc pullstart, 14' Speedliner with the Merc., Homemade Custom Craft 14' Tornado still with Merc, Project 21' Century Coronado with 331 hemi, 16' Glass Speedliner 155 I/O and finally a 17' Stevens SK with 327cid/350hp Chevy.
frontier posted 12-18-2007 10:33 PM ET (US)
Is the Aristocraft the one with the sliding hardtop?
cbgann posted 12-19-2007 12:59 AM ET (US)
No, same company but earlier; they made 3 models. A 13' Sea Flash, a 14' Torpedo and a 15' Avalon. All epoxy painted plywood, nontrip chines and fins. The Grandson Bill Turner, still builds the Torpedo and shows up at the Mt. Dora,Fl. antique boat show each year. Bill
maverick posted 12-19-2007 04:53 AM ET (US)
My Dad owned Jackknife Marina, Port Clinton, Ohio until 1978. I grew up there....first real boat at about age 12 was a 20' 1939 Lymna, solid mahogany lapstrake, 125HP Gray Phantom, 6 cyl inline inboard. 13x13 prop, spent many days water skiing the Portage River.....pulled in a HUGE log once with, turned out the log, about 12' long and about 4' in diameter, was black walnut. 10 years later Dad had it sawed up by the Amish, I still have a 1" thick plank in my attic. Hard as steel, just like the winters on Lake Erie. Had a wooden boat sink on me on Lake Erie, that's why I prefer Whalers now....the unsinkable legend. Mav
maverick posted 12-19-2007 04:54 AM ET (US)
Make that a LYMAN sorry for the typo.
Jkcam posted 12-19-2007 05:44 AM ET (US)
14' Wolverine, molded plywood, 35hp Merc.
erik selis posted 12-19-2007 07:10 AM ET (US)
As a small child in the sixties I never had a boat myself but my parents did. I loved being out on the water and going fishing with my dad, my uncle and their friends. It laid out the foundation for the love of boats and fishing that I have today.
Here's a picture from 1965 (I think) showing my parents boat, with me sitting up front. I have no idea what kind of boat it was. I think it's a Johnson engine but of that I'm also not sure. Ahhhh....nostalgia
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c86/erik069/Old%20Pics/ Erikparents1964.jpg
Erik
Binkie posted 12-19-2007 09:20 AM ET (US)
Erik, Your Dad`s motor looks like a 1958 35 hp Evinrude Lark, same as my current motor on my 13 footer. Still a great motor, and gets a lot of approving looks at the ramp.
rich
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/boats2/132.jpg
erik selis posted 12-19-2007 09:33 AM ET (US)
Rich, if I haven't said it before I'll say it now: that's a sweeeeet boat you have there. You're probably right about the engine. They seem to have the same general shape and size. I'll ask him what type of engine it was when he comes over this weekend.
Erik

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Author	Topic: Your Boat From the 1960's
Dick	posted 12-16-2007 02:17 PM ET (US) What boat did you have back in the 1960's? As it was prior to my Whaler days I had a 21' wooden cruiser on the Chesapeake Bay south of Annapolis.
fishgutz	posted 12-16-2007 03:37 PM ET (US) We (my dad) had a 15 foot SeaSprite (sort of a trihull) with a 33 Johnson. We all learned to waterski behind it. Nice boat and great memories. It was actually a center console model with cable steering. The mold was used by SeaSprite, SeaStar, Starcraft, and a few more. We pulled it behind a Ford Galaxie 500. Those were great times. I think you can still find those times in northern Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan to name a few. Mostly in the time warped rural areas. Read anything by Wisconsin author Michael Perry. Truck, A Love Story or Population 485, Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time. They are present day true stories but they'll take you back to simpler times.
macfam	posted 12-16-2007 04:56 PM ET (US) We started back in 1962 with a wooden 16' Old Town lapstrake with a 40hp Johnson. This brand was popular in New England, Old Town Canoe Co. in Maine. It was a wonderful boat, a true "classic". My next door neighbor Rick bought a used (1958) Boston Whaler with a 40 Johnson. Actually Rick had a severe problem with the hull delaminating just at the waterline, med-section of the bow. He was treated very well by Falmouth Harbor Yacht Sales and somehow got a new hull. I think he paid something, but very little. He finally put a 50 Mercury 4 cylinder on the back...what a rocket! The reason Rick bought the 50hp was he HAD to beat Duncan Scribner who had a 13' with a 45 Merc. I just loved that little 13' with the 50. And that motor just purred at idle. Maybe that's why I just won't give up my 13' Super Sport. Just love that boat!
fabricator	posted 12-16-2007 04:58 PM ET (US) Thanks for the link! That was a great trip back in time. We didn't own a boat then, but we used to rent a wooden rowboat on Greenwood Lake in New York from time to time. My uncle would bring his Evinrude Light Twin, clamp it on the transom, and we'd go fishing. Great memories.
Binkie	posted 12-16-2007 05:32 PM ET (US) Thanks Dick, it brought back a lot of memories for me, the sixties was a tough decade,--compared to the fifties. Just married, bought my own first boat. A noname 13 ft. plywood runabout, that was used as a Mercury test boat on Lake X in Fl. Powered it with a Mark 20 Merc., of course. Had to sell it when the wife became pregnant, it wasn`t a family boat. Went boatless till `71 when I got an 18` Thompson. Rich
frontier	posted 12-16-2007 05:44 PM ET (US) Good topic, Dick. When I was a kid, our family had a 14' Dorsett boat with a Mark 20 Merc on it. On a Tee Nee trailer - they would rust just looking at them. It seems like most all the boat trailers back then had 8" wheels. For larger capacity, they went to dual axles with 8" wheels!
jjandpop	posted 12-16-2007 06:27 PM ET (US) Thanks for the memories! I had a number of no name boats but in 1964 I purchased another no name 13' that had a 50 HP Mercury that we used for water skiing on a small lake outside Mt Ranier NP. In 1968 I purchased a 20 foot Seacraft with a 140HP OD. Great boat in Florida. Jim
Kingsteven18	posted 12-16-2007 06:39 PM ET (US) My dad had a 16' runabout that was actually made by Hinckley Yachts. When the original Mercury blew, we got an Evinrude Lark. I got to start taking it out by myself (on the south shore of Long Island / Freeport) at the ripe old age of 13, and no-one worried about anything back then.
scottfarm	posted 12-16-2007 07:00 PM ET (US) My dad had a 16' Lyman with mahogony bow, gunnels, seats and pop out windows and a 35 johnson. He made me and my brother sand and refinish it every year.
Binkie	posted 12-16-2007 07:17 PM ET (US) Hey King, I got my start in boats at 13 on Woodcleft Canal too, back in the `50`s. Bet your dad bought the Lark from Al Grover. rich
JayR	posted 12-16-2007 07:19 PM ET (US) Old farts! I was born in the sixties :-0 1964 to be exact. It's nice feeling young (er).
Hal Watkins	posted 12-16-2007 07:26 PM ET (US) My memory is a little fuzzy as I graduated HS in '67. My Dad bought a 14' "Yellow Jacket" with a 35 Johnson from my future brother in law when he got sent to Viet Nam. My future wife and I skied togther behind that 35 many miles.
fourdfish	posted 12-16-2007 08:11 PM ET (US) Thanks Dick, brought back some old memories! BTW JayR, I graduated HS in 1964!
Binkie	posted 12-16-2007 08:18 PM ET (US) Jay, your life has been condensed, you seem older than me;-) rich
jimh	posted 12-16-2007 08:45 PM ET (US) I didn't have a boat in 1960 (as I was only ten years old), but I do have a lot of great memories of sailing with my Dad in a Flying Scott at the boat club on the Detroit River.
frontier	posted 12-16-2007 09:30 PM ET (US) Anybody remember the Glasspar boats from the 1960's? They had a factory here in Olympia, Washington. We had a 1966 Glasspar 14' Marathon with a 50 Merc. Beautiful boat - red gelcoat. Nice ride with the semi-vee hull.
WhalerAce	posted 12-16-2007 09:51 PM ET (US) I remember riding around on a mid-60's Glaspar Seafair Sunliner. It was probably around 17' but I was only around 10 at the time, but I do remember that it was an awesome boat. It had a Mercury 800 (80HP) HUGE engine on it, and was a great ski boat. That was my first exposure to the Whalers, too, as the Wateree Sailing Club had a couple of 13' chase boats. I rode in my first Evinrude boats (a 19' Rogue and a 16' Reveler) during the late sixties, as well. My own personal boats were a 9'9" aluminum jon boat from Sears (cost < $100) and a 14' homemade kayak, made out of 1"x1"x14' spruce spars and canvas (that was painted to make it waterproof). Ah, back in the good ole days . . .
jimh	posted 12-16-2007 10:22 PM ET (US) I saw a 50-year old 1957 Glastron--Is that different than Glasspar? Photo Link
Dick	posted 12-16-2007 11:15 PM ET (US) There is no connection between Glastron and Glasspar. I believe all Glasspars were built here in the PNW, when I was a Glastron dealer in the late 70s they were built in Texas. BTW Jim I don't appreciate you changing the title of my thread. [TOPIC was "For those old enough to remember'; also removed link to music video with 1960's nostalgia music. Contact Dick via email for the URL to the 1960's music nostalgia video.-jimh]
frontier	posted 12-16-2007 11:18 PM ET (US) Glasspar and Glastron were two different companies. The classic Glasspar G3 sportboat is very collectible. It looks great even by today's standards. Classic enduring lines kind of like a Porsche 911 (and about the same age). May never go out of style.
Lil Whaler Lover	posted 12-16-2007 11:33 PM ET (US) Glastron and Glasspar. Ironically, Glasspar was bought out by Larson. After Irwin Jacobs bought both Glastron and Larson, he merged the lines so they are very much duplicative of each other today. I have fond memories of 4 boats from the 1960's. First was a 1960 Lone Star Little Fisherman, 12' cartop aluminum. Second was a 1961 Crestliner Mustang 14" fiberglass. Third was a 1955 Penn Yan model CZT Swift. It counts as the 1960's because it did 42 mph with its 1967 20 hp Mercury on it. Lastly was the 14" Amesbury Skiff rented many times in Noank CT.
Chuck Tribolet	posted 12-17-2007 04:58 AM ET (US) What boat did I have in the 60's? Musta been a rubber tub duckie -- I woulda been < 10 years old. I had a job interview with Texas Instruments in Austin TX in the spring of 1972. There was a Glastron display in the airport. I remember metalflake paint and NO freeboard. Chuck
sapple	posted 12-17-2007 08:26 AM ET (US) Back then I was a kid paddeling around in a local creek in Clearwater Flowida in a 50 gal steel drum that had been cut in half length wise.
jimh	posted 12-17-2007 09:54 AM ET (US) What I find most interesting is that if you had a Boston Whaler 13-footer from 1960, you'd have a boat that they were more or less still making today. You can't say that about too many other boats from 1960, can you? Any candidates?
frontier	posted 12-17-2007 10:29 AM ET (US) If you look at the classic lines of a 1960's era 17' 6" Glasspar Seafair Sedan cabin boat, you see hints of the 1980-on Boston Whaler Revenge.
JMARTIN	posted 12-17-2007 11:37 AM ET (US) A 15 foot Skagit Plastic with a 35 Lark pull start. Amazingly fast, scary in high speed turns, and in chop you could bounce right out of the boat. I really wanted a Glas-Ply. John
bayliner bob	posted 12-17-2007 12:06 PM ET (US) yo dog I think this discussion is about the boat you had in the 60's. I had 14 ft homemade wooden skiff with a 5hp Gale.
gamble	posted 12-17-2007 12:33 PM ET (US) Not much water around Lovelock, Nevada, but I remember experimenting with various rafts made from innertubes and plywood. I think I may have actually invented the first float tube! it was a truck tube with sandwiched plywood to which I bolted the seat of a kitchen stool. My mom always wondered what became of that stool, but I was pretty desparate to get to those ducks floating on TC's Slough each winter. A later version had a fabric bag around it, holding the plywood down in the tube, the theory being that the center of gravity would be lower and the recoil wouldn't tip me into the ice and water. Finally in about 1969 I liberated an old Grumman 15' canoe from Lake Lagunita at Stanford, painted it camo, and still use it to torture the ducks and geese in western Nevada. First of several Whalers--1985 15'Supersport that still live at my house! Thanks for stirring up the memories! David
Whalerdog	posted 12-17-2007 12:40 PM ET (US) I had a small wooden runabout with a windshield. Spent all of 1967 fixing and painting it. It had a 25 Merc which was white. Went for a ride and knocked the bottom out the first day and it almost sunk. 1968 I got a new 14' Chrysler Charger 118 with a 55 Chrysler. Boat did about 30 MPH. Next year I put a 55 Evinrude new triple cylinder which made the boat go 40 MPH which was fairly fast back then. The motor was stolen and I had no insurance so I sold it. I worked at a marina when I was a kid and drove a inboard ski boat that went about 100 mph in 68-69. I did not get another boat till 1983 25' Checkmate that I started racing offshore. Then went to Skaters from 24-40 feet ending in 1998.. I just saw a 14' Chrysler same boat on ebay for 4,000 which was a 1971 and never had a motor mounted on it. I wanted to buy it but it was in CA and I am on Long Island and shipping was nuts!.
Tohsgib	posted 12-17-2007 12:44 PM ET (US) Even though I was born 8/9/69, I was out in my parents 16 Nauset on Labor day weekend cruising with the 40hp Johnson in a crib under an umbrella. Yeah...Whaler was in my blood since birth.
Binkie	posted 12-17-2007 12:54 PM ET (US) I have two outboards from the sixties, that are still in service, not just for show, a 1966 Johnson 3hp, and a 1969 Merc 75, 7 1/2 hp. I use them as kickers Rich
Ridge Runner	posted 12-17-2007 02:08 PM ET (US) My dad had a late 60's 23' Thunderbird, this boat was designed by Dick Cole who invented the original "Cathedral" tri-hull. The boat was very simular to the Thunderbird Iroquois that was used on the TV show flipper. Lots of folks use to ask my dad if it was the boat from the show.
jimh	posted 12-17-2007 04:38 PM ET (US) Re the missing link to a music video of 1960's nostalgia: CONTINUOUSWAVE really does not collect links to music videos of nostalgic 1960's popular music. Also, we don't collect reviews of random music videos, either. And we don't encourage submission of links of favorite music videos, as well.
contender	posted 12-17-2007 04:44 PM ET (US) First boat 1962 13 whaler (brand new) father purchase it for me and my brothers. I forgot what HP motor it came with then but it was an Evinrude (pull start). My father bought a Bimini top and an extra 6 gal tank with the boat, Had a white trailer I think it was a Seminole. Mom would drive us to the ramp and we would be gone all day. We use to island hop all of the islands from 135st (Miami) north to Key Biscayne south. Boy the times have changed. We still have the same Whaler today.
mitch13	posted 12-17-2007 07:32 PM ET (US) My friend and I built a 15' Glen L ski boat and mounted a 60 HP McCulough. He flipped it in the ocean outside the breakwater at Long Beach, CA and the motor is still there I presume.
macfam	posted 12-17-2007 08:27 PM ET (US) jimh, You're right Jim, not too many boats built in 1960 are still being built today like the 13' Boston Whaler. However, I can think of a few, all made in the great boat building state of Rhode Island. The ever popular Amesbury Dory. 12, 14 and 16 ft. See: www.stur-deeboat.com/ And some of the most beautiful boats I know, that may be the best re-sale values anywhere. The Dyer 10' "dink", the venerable Dyer 29, and the Dyer 40 See: www.dyerboats.com Although these may not be the classic 'production' boats like the Boston Whaler, they are similar in their 'classic' design and utility. All have stood the test of time, quite short lived in the boating industry.
jimh	posted 12-17-2007 09:05 PM ET (US) I have been admiring those Dyer 29's for some time, and they seem to hold their value even better than old Boston Whalers.
Tohsgib	posted 12-17-2007 09:21 PM ET (US) I know it is 160's which I already posted about but...My first boat(1978) was a 9' squall. I got my 2nd in 1981 as a 1964 13' with a 25hp....happy days!
brisboats	posted 12-18-2007 11:12 AM ET (US) I was born in the 60's too so my memories are limited to the bathtub boats mostly plastic. I did own a 1962 Glaspar G-3 dual cockpit for a time and converted it to a 20" transom, the boat really flew with a 75 horsepower Stinger. To answer Jim's question the one boat I can think of that would give the Whaler 13' a longevity run would be the Sunfish produced by AMF-alcort. I think it was introduced in the late 60's or thereabouts. We did have a wooden ribbed old canoe in the 70's and my still living the 60's hippie Dad was to enviornmentally conscious to purchase any stinkpot power. I spent hours and entire Summers paddling that leaky 17' canoe. Lucky for me our neighbors had a tin Starcraft with a 6 horsepower mercury. Riding around the an Adirondack lake in the bow of that boat at what seemed like warp speed were some fond childhood memories. One of those Summers I made a vow to never paddle again as soon as I could afford it. It took a long time but eventually I did get my own powerboat. It took awhile after that to come into the Whaler faithful. Brian
cbgann	posted 12-18-2007 08:50 PM ET (US) Thanks for the Memories: 13' Aristocraft "SeaFlash" with 35hp Evinrude and later a 45hp Merc pullstart, 14' Speedliner with the Merc., Homemade Custom Craft 14' Tornado still with Merc, Project 21' Century Coronado with 331 hemi, 16' Glass Speedliner 155 I/O and finally a 17' Stevens SK with 327cid/350hp Chevy.
frontier	posted 12-18-2007 10:33 PM ET (US) Is the Aristocraft the one with the sliding hardtop?
cbgann	posted 12-19-2007 12:59 AM ET (US) No, same company but earlier; they made 3 models. A 13' Sea Flash, a 14' Torpedo and a 15' Avalon. All epoxy painted plywood, nontrip chines and fins. The Grandson Bill Turner, still builds the Torpedo and shows up at the Mt. Dora,Fl. antique boat show each year. Bill
maverick	posted 12-19-2007 04:53 AM ET (US) My Dad owned Jackknife Marina, Port Clinton, Ohio until 1978. I grew up there....first real boat at about age 12 was a 20' 1939 Lymna, solid mahogany lapstrake, 125HP Gray Phantom, 6 cyl inline inboard. 13x13 prop, spent many days water skiing the Portage River.....pulled in a HUGE log once with, turned out the log, about 12' long and about 4' in diameter, was black walnut. 10 years later Dad had it sawed up by the Amish, I still have a 1" thick plank in my attic. Hard as steel, just like the winters on Lake Erie. Had a wooden boat sink on me on Lake Erie, that's why I prefer Whalers now....the unsinkable legend. Mav
maverick	posted 12-19-2007 04:54 AM ET (US) Make that a LYMAN sorry for the typo.
Jkcam	posted 12-19-2007 05:44 AM ET (US) 14' Wolverine, molded plywood, 35hp Merc.
erik selis	posted 12-19-2007 07:10 AM ET (US) As a small child in the sixties I never had a boat myself but my parents did. I loved being out on the water and going fishing with my dad, my uncle and their friends. It laid out the foundation for the love of boats and fishing that I have today. Here's a picture from 1965 (I think) showing my parents boat, with me sitting up front. I have no idea what kind of boat it was. I think it's a Johnson engine but of that I'm also not sure. Ahhhh....nostalgia http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c86/erik069/Old%20Pics/ Erikparents1964.jpg Erik
Binkie	posted 12-19-2007 09:20 AM ET (US) Erik, Your Dad`s motor looks like a 1958 35 hp Evinrude Lark, same as my current motor on my 13 footer. Still a great motor, and gets a lot of approving looks at the ramp. rich http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/boats2/132.jpg
erik selis	posted 12-19-2007 09:33 AM ET (US) Rich, if I haven't said it before I'll say it now: that's a sweeeeet boat you have there. You're probably right about the engine. They seem to have the same general shape and size. I'll ask him what type of engine it was when he comes over this weekend. Erik