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I do not think there is anything particularly unusual or exotic about the 1995 OFFSHORE 27 that would require being explained in detail in an owner's manual. For many years Boston Whaler only published rather generic owner's manuals that covered many models and lengths of boat. In the REFERENCE sect...

I do not think there is anything particularly unusual or rare in the Mercury 225-HP engines. You should contact a Mercury dealer and inquire if you can purchase printed copies of the owner's manual. If you want wiring diagrams for the engine, you will have to purchase a printed copy of the service m...

Bawausa wrote:Q5: JIMH--do you know of any one that owns a OFFSHORE 27 offshore?

No. You can be certain that if I knew someone who owned an OFFSHORE 27 boat, I would have already suggested to you to contact that person.

Boston Whaler has published a great resource for information about gel coat resin colors, the years the colors were used, and what Spectrum Gel Coat resin part number would be the equivalent. The PDF document can be accessed at https://www.bostonwhaler.com/resources-and-maintenance.html#:~:text=2024...

For help with Boston Whaler boat owner’s manuals, contact Boston Whaler customer service. You can also find many owner's manual and diagrams for Boston Whaler boats at this resource: https://www.bostonwhaler.com/resources-and-maintenance.html The does not appear to be any information for the OFFSHOR...

For help with engine manuals read at https://continuouswave.com/whaler/reference/ownersManuals.html You should mention the model and model year of the Mercury engines so that readers will be better able to help you located the particular owner's manual and the wiring diagrams for the engines you hav...

Q1: what is the smallest RADAR that Montauk 17 owners have on their boat? I am not aware of any reliable statistical data about uses of RADAR on a MONTAUK 17 boat. Any reports of MONTAUK 17 boats having installed RADAR will be just anecdotal. Any advice and recommendation will be greatly appreciate...

ASIDE: Here is a short recounting of an incident related to using an electrically operated windlass to handle the anchor chores: Many years ago, we were anchored in a 30-foot sail boat in a vary nice cove in northern Lake Huron in the Benjamin Islands. Another boater came into the cove, operating a ...

The previous owner of this 2000 CONQUEST 23 must have been focused on simplicity. He removed two rather expensive options from the boat, the marine toilet with holding tank and pump out, and the electric windlass. I doubt that this fellow was the original purchaser of the boat: why would he pay for ...

Regarding a suitable replacement windlass: Q3: do you intend to use a windlass powered by an electric motor? Q4: if you intend to use an electric windlass, was the original windlass that has been removed also an electric-motor operated windlass? Q5: if the original windlass was operated by an electr...

If the 2000 CONQUEST 23 boat already has a black water holding tank with vent and pump out, you can use a marine toilet that does not have its own holding tank. If the boat does not already have a holding tank with vent and pump out, you may need to use a marine toilet that has its own holding tank....

December 2023 is an interesting time for the Global Positioning System, which has become such an essential part of boat navigation. I am old enough to remember boat navigation without any electronic aids, where I used just deduced reckoning to keep an estimated boat position between position fixes. ...

There must be some grant money going into electrification of boats, or at least that is my deduction from seeing the installation of a very large, very powerful boat charging facility at the local marina in tiny Northport, Michigan. I asked the harbor master who was paying for the installation, and ...

Q1: are the GUARDIAN model and red dot are the same? The red dot was a marker created by using tinted gel coat in the initial gel coat resin layer of the hull lamination in a female contact mold. The dot was placed on the hullsides near the stern and at a location near where the decal indicating th...

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I don’t think any cross-USA movement is going to be really inexpensive.

Regarding the elevation angle and path lengths calculated for a WAAS satellite, we have also found a typical path length as shown above, in the case of a receiver at 42-degrees latitude. The optimum path length for a WAAS satellite occurs when the receiver is on the equator and at the longitude of t...

NOTE TO MYSELF How I figured out a way to type the Greek lower case letter gamma using MacOS and enter it in the drawing program GIMP. In MacOS System Preferences, open the Keyboard. In the Input Sources tab, click the plus (+) sign at lower left. Browse through the language sources, and select Gree...

Note that in the diagram shown in Figure 1, repeated below https://continuouswave.com/forum/download/file.php?id=9409 the relationship shown in the drawing occurs in a particular situation with a geostationary satellite orbit which happens to be located on your meridian. In that case satellite subpo...

If you are seriously thinking about buying the boat for which you asked for an appraisal, I would not wait several weeks--unless the asking price is quite out of line. A popular Boston Whaler model in nice condition at a fair price will sell rapidly.

The molded-in HIN number seen in Figure 16 for c.1973 hull looks like it was done with a Dymo Tape Label printer. But I am trying to figure out how the process was accomplished. The hull is molded in a female contact mold, so the plastic tape must have been stuck inside the mold for the number to ap...

For comparison, I will use a 170 MONTAUK boat that was listed recently and sold in a very short time for $35,000 . That boat was newer, 2015, but its engine was older, also 2015. As far as the boat, as long as the condition of the 2005 boat is excellent, I do not see a great difference in value comp...

Regarding the modification you have described to the hull where it is cut in half down the center line through the keel, then an entirely new center section of the hull is created in some manner, and this new center section is then laminated to the two original halves of the hull, I don't see this a...

Regarding the dodger you mention as having been a modification to the hull of a 13-foot Boston Whaler boat, are you trying to describe a structure that was added to the hull? Or are you just describing a canvas and frame assembly creating a dodger? If you are just describing a canvas and frame assem...

As far as I have found, there are only two devices on the market that use wireless sensors to replace the normal physical lanyard engine shut off safety switch. Both devices are aftermarket products that are to be installed by the buyer. The two brands are FELL MARINE and ACR. The FELL MARINE wirele...

In the thread "Boston Whaler Leaders" ( pinned above ) there is a quote from the CEO of Brunswick, Dave Foulkes, in which he mentions Brunswick's "industry-defining ACES strategy." When recently re-reading that thread, I had no idea what an ACES strategy was. Upon some further re...

Thank you for the follow up. I was quite honestly thinking about making an inquiry myself about this offer. As I have always said, used Boston Whaler boats that are popular models, are in excellent condition, and are reasonably priced are then usually sold to the first person who inquires with actua...

Does Mr. Radon have a website? If so, perhaps you can give the URL for it.

I agree with your observation about the foredeck of the boat shown in Figures 1, 2, and 3 being quite different from what would be seen in a 17-foot boat build by Boston Whaler. My best inference based on the three photographs is the boat was copied from a Boston Whaler 17-foot hull. Perhaps a mold ...

As the weight of a hull increases while the propulsion power remains the same, the maximum hull speed will decrease. Perhaps your perception that adding weight increase the stability of the hull was a result of the boat speed decreasing. If adding weight to a hull incurred no penalty and inherently ...

The designation "gateway" in terms of networking refers to a device that connects to TWO networks, usually of different types using different protocols, and is intended to translate data from one network and that network's protocol to a second network and that second network's protocol. Th...

The Boston Whaler boat most appropriate to use for offshore angling is probably the OUTRAGE 25. That boat has a very wide and completely open transom. The engine splash well is also full-width. The splash well can capture water coming over the transom and immediately drain it out to the sea via the ...

When a radio engineer is faced with the problem of creating a reliable radio circuit between two locations, the distance between the stations is already known and is a fixed constant. The radio engineer begins the design of the communication system with that distance as the principal parameter, and ...

To make a guess at your boat total weight with engines and gear, take the dry hull weight and double it. Then add the trailer weight. Using your weight numbers: 2 x 3,300-lbs = 6,600-lbs for boat and gear Adding the 1,500-lbs of trailer gives 6,600-lbs + 1,500-lbs = 8,100-lbs Use a 3/4-ton truck wit...

Being stern-to to large ocean waves in an open 17-foot skiff is probably not the best situation. Perhaps a larger boat with a full transom, a cockpit whose deck level is above the waterline, and large scuppers to permit rapid draining would be better for those conditions. Or, invest in a really good...

Calculating Range of Communication In any radio circuit, an important topic of interest is the anticipated or expected range of communication. There are several elements that affect the range of communication, namely ⋅ transmitter output power ⋅ transmitter transmission line los...

Also, the hull was NOT properly prepared for continual immersion in the water. The hull should have been given a barrier coat and perhaps an anti-fouling coat to protect the gel coat resin from intrusion of water and attachment of marine growth. The hull stains from the water may be able to be remov...

If I can find a higher resolution and larger image and zoom in [to show the HIN], I will update this thread. The HIN should be visible in Figure 2, but I doubt there is sufficient resolution in that image to show anything useful. Actually, the HIN is really not seen at all in that image, which is s...

Regarding the HIN number as BSCYA431K697 This is the so-called NEW FORMAT that was mandatory after Auguest 1984 I will interpret the HIN as follows: BSC = the manufacturer's identity code. As already mentioned, the expectation would be for the MIC to be BWC. That the HIN is BSC and resolves to BOATS...

From the three photographs the boat certainly looks like it was made by Boston Whaler and could be a SENTRY model. Q2: do you have a photograph that is clear and high resolution that shows the actual HIN on the boat transom? I suspect that somewhere in the process of this boat's ownership and transf...

A further problem with the compliance to the federal regulations (as excerpted above) regarding criteria that the method of identification of the hull must possess is the notion that the identification can be "stamped" in place. I suspect that this might be the basis for Boston Whaler usin...

Regarding the photographs which are said to shown HIN placement on c.1970 OUTRAGE boats, the quality has become even worse. About all that is seen are faint blobs of contrasting colors or empty holes. Photo-evidence of the method of attachment or indication of the federal HIN would be much better ac...

The examples seen in newly added Figures 6, 7, and 8 are very small images and really are not sufficient to even determine what is being seen. To get to the bottom of the claim of use of orange gel coat resin to mold-in a HIN number on a Boston Whaler boat, photographs of higher resolution that clea...

That Boston Whaler continued to use a metal tag that was riveted to the hulls as the method of complying with regulations that required the HIN to be “bonded” and to be “permanently affixed” to the hull and to exhibit "scarring or...damage...if removed" and did this well past the change in...

I very much doubt that you will find any canvas vendor who has canvas in-stock that was specifically designed to fit a 1998 150 DAUNTLESS boat from Boston Whaler. This is mostly due to the boat being 25-years-old. Canvas vendors do not and could not in 2023 maintain a stock of products that were spe...

Q1: in the history of Boston Whaler OUTRAGE 18 boats, has one ever been rigged with a single 90-HP engine? Given the popularity of that hull, I would expect that someone, somewhere, at some time must have run the boat with just a single 90-HP. For example, in the case of the famous GAMBLER boat wit...

Another factor influencing boat prices: the craze and rush into boating by people who previously were not boaters that occurred during the pandemic and drove boat prices to unprecedented high levels is now over, and demand for boats and sales of boats have fallen way off, also affected by big inflat...

Here is a nice snapshot of Whaler Ace and BigShot aboard Whaler Ace's TEMPTATION 2500 while underway at the 2004 Stuart, Florida, Boston Whaler Rendezvous at the Marine Max dealer there:

: Fig. 2. Craig, Nick, and Joy aboard TEMPTATION 2500 at 2004 Boston Whaler Rendezvous in Stuart, Florida.; bigshotWhalerAceStuart2004.jpeg (96.88 KiB) Viewed 895 times

A 2005 170 MONTAUK boat is from the third year of production, as the model was introduced in 2002. The boat originally sold in 2002 in a package with engine and trailer for about $18,000. That was an extremely low introductory price. By 2007 the 170 MONTAUK was selling with some factory incentives, ...

My 1990 Montauk 17 has the HIN on an aluminum plate riveted to the stern on the starboard side. Boston Whaler continued to use this identification method until the mid-1990s, when they transitioned to molding the HIN into the hull. My 1990 Boston Whaler boat has the federal HIN molded into the hull...

This is very sad news. In the earliest days of the forum at continuouswave.com Nick was a very active participant. He had owned several dozen Boston Whaler boats, and he always had something useful to comment on them. I met Nick only once, when I attended a Boston Whaler sponsored event in Stuart, F...

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