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whalers on tv and in movies?
renoduckman	#21  Posted on 05/13/09 - 8:49 PM
Member Posts: 81 Comments: 0 Joined: 08/12/05	yes interesting about the whaler on flipper. I watched the reruns of that in the 70's. That was before i became a whaler nut, i didnt realize it was a whaler.
Ambush	#22  Posted on 05/31/09 - 7:11 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 32 Comments: 0 Joined: 05/05/09	All this talk of the old "Flipper" television program got me feeling nostalgic as that program and our yearly family vacations to the Keys (some of the underwater sequences were shot at the John Pennekamp underwater preserve and park) were instrumental in my moving to Florida from New Jersey as soon as I turned eighteen. The internet site "Hulu Television" has episodes of many older TV programs we all grew up with including, of course, "Flipper". I have just started watching episodes with my two girls (eight and ten) nightly before bedtime. They have just discovered "Flipper" and are mad about him already. They are insisting on more than just our one annual trip to the Keys for Spring Break and are begging to run up the coast a bit to the old Marineland park (just south of St. Augustine), which is now a dedicated porpoise research/learning center after being decimated in the '05 hurricane season. Anyhoo, the 13' 'skiff' is in more episodes than I remembered. A lot of action in an episode; "Dolphins Don't Sleep". Tonight I watched an episode "An Errand for Flipper" that features a nice Nauset, a float plane and a few 1960's era 'hotties'. Below are the links. Funny, I sure was naive as a kid. A LOT of the plot line and particulars we are expected to swallow with regard to all things aquanautica are pretty unbelievable. In the first episode a marine biologist/specimen hunter pull starts the skiff's Merc motor. There is a soundtrack of engine noise, but it's obvious the skiff was pulled out of the frame not under it's own power. Also, it's amazing how many sea miles Bud and Sandy can cover on their 'paddle boards' in about five minutes. Hilarious! Enjoy! http://www.hulu.com/watch/66469/flipp...dont-sleep http://www.hulu.com/watch/66477/flipp...or-flipper Doug Only in a Whaler!
cjg	#23  Posted on 05/31/09 - 8:28 PM
Member Posts: 20 Comments: 0 Joined: 08/22/08	On Discovery Channels the Deadliest Catch, the Wizzard unloaded thier 13', "The Wiz" into the Bearing Sea @ 200 miles out, to aid with work on the big boat. Now theres a testament to whalers toughness.
MW	#24  Posted on 06/01/09 - 3:26 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 1827 Comments: 10 Joined: 01/08/06	I forgot about the "Paddle Board's" on "Flipper", In just a few minutes of paddling "Sandy and Bud" were out of sight of land, and in "open water" LOL ! and it "NEVER" Rained in "Coral Key". Matt
Ambush	#25  Posted on 06/01/09 - 4:54 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 32 Comments: 0 Joined: 05/05/09	cjg wrote: unloaded thier 13', "The Wiz" into the Bearing Sea @ 200 miles out, to aid with work on the big boat. Now theres a testament to whalers toughness. Yup, there you go! I often plan my late Spring jaunts in my Montauk to catch up to the schoolie 'Peanut' Mahi-Mahi off Daytona (Ponce) and you really have to go a minimum of 25 miles to find at least 100ft depths and maybe a finger of the 'Stream' floating that close to shore just kissing the East Ridge or Half North. Then too, as a kid in Jersey, chancing the 'Klondike' for Blues and Skip Jack, all of what? Seven miles down range from Manasquan Inlet? Still for a twelve year old, well offshore I won't argue with anyone that considers it foolish to go offshore in a 17' center console, especially solo as I often do. I do overkill safety precautions, S.O.S 'Penders the auto-inflate model, kill switch lanyard, two batteries and a 12volt jump kit, three VHF radios, one a handheld submersible on my belt, with a personal E.P.I.R.B,/ strobe flasher right next to it, and file a float plan with my wife and Sea Tow, call in about three times a day, make contact with any vessel I can see nearby and raise ( I have a lot of commercial longliner friends), still, it is foolish. I know. Everyone here will testify; if it can go all wrong on the water it will, and a NOAA report of 1.3-2 ft seas was never read by mother nature, but, you go to war with the army you got, not the army you want. I tell my friends who just shake their heads in disbelief, and in the back of my head; "If we were on a 75 foot yacht cruiser that was going down thirty miles offshore and a Montauk was on the foredeck davit? You couldn't ask for a better life boat. Hence my signature................ Doug Only in a Whaler!
LabCab	#26  Posted on 06/01/09 - 7:13 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 100 Comments: 7 Joined: 01/17/09	We still haven't worked our way through the 30 episodes of "Flipper" we have on DVD. During a chase scene my 9 year old son pointed out a third wake from the camera boat. I was proud of his attention to detail. The best part of that series is that they never seem to go to school! And there are constant scenes of them painting the bottom of the boat white. Why? It appears to be brand new! Thanks for the Hulu tip!
Finnegan	#27  Posted on 06/02/09 - 12:19 PM
Member Posts: 1926 Comments: 16 Joined: 05/02/08	My 25 Outrage, with me in it, was used in a CBS "Movie of the Week" aired on National television prime time in 1991, titled "Good Night Sweet Wife, A Murder in Boston". Although the setting is Boston, it was actually filmed in Chicago because of delicate racial overtones in the Boston area. Stars were Ken Olin and Margaret Colin. It was a real life then recent news story, about Chuck Stewart who killed his pregnant wife and shot himself to cover it up. When found out, he jumped off a bridge, and guess what, a USCG Whaler was used to fish his body out of the water. So they used my boat to portray those scenes!
ChelseaFish	#28  Posted on 12/11/09 - 12:06 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 3 Comments: 0 Joined: 05/10/09	Restored 13 Whaler from the original "Flipper" I still need to scan and upload pics from the set! Promise I will soon! [img]http://www.whalercentral.com/images/ppimages/13524/Flipper-1.jpg[/img]
CES	#29  Posted on 12/11/09 - 1:08 PM
Member Personal Page Photo Albums Project Albums Posts: 2681 Comments: 7 Joined: 04/27/07	Wow Chelsea, we're certainly looking forward to seeing those pictures. Did anyone see the movie "Hoot" last night on the Disney channel? They showed a classic 13' BW in many of the scenes. My kids were pretty hyped about seeing a whaler just like ours in the movie. Cliff 1966 13' Sport with a 1993 40hp Yamaha 2 Smoker
Mark Finkenstaedt	#30  Posted on 12/11/09 - 8:39 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 195 Comments: 4 Joined: 08/20/08	I saw a Whaler on the "A"-Team but tracking the episode eludes me for now. 2001 18' Dauntless - 150HP 2010 E-TEC
DaveS	#31  Posted on 12/13/09 - 5:35 PM
Member Posts: 69 Comments: 1 Joined: 04/22/05	I saw a few whalers lately. One was on NCIS when some guy fishing at night gets too close to a drug deal gone bad. The other one was just on the other night, some psycho movies, "The House by the Lake," interesting enough, one of the main characters in the movie is also on NCIS!