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| renoduckman |
Posted on 05/10/09 - 8:31 PM
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Being a whaler nut, over the years i have noticed them several times on different tv shows and movies. Anybody else notice this or is it just i watch too much tV? The other day my wife was watching a old movie that was made in the phillippines, and i was supprised to see a 16ft with the old blue interior and a 100hp Johnson. The shots were not really close up enough to make out the exact model. I was thinking that it must have cost a fortune to have it shipped there. Joe
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| MW |
Posted on 05/10/09 - 11:15 PM
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"Flipper" - Bud's 13' Whaler !
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| mattgeiger |
Posted on 05/11/09 - 3:31 AM
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"The Italian Job" - The getaway boat looks like an Outrage 22
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| sraab928 |
Posted on 05/11/09 - 3:38 AM
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Striking Distance - A couple of Guardians - Lots of Whaler action.
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Posted on 05/11/09 - 4:26 AM
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MW wrote:
"Flipper" - Bud's 13' Whaler !
CLASSIC! I remember they referred to it as the 'skiff'.
One 17 footer in a Magnum P.I. episode, It had a lame 'podium style' console. I think it exploded.
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Posted on 05/11/09 - 8:00 AM
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sraab928 wrote:
Striking Distance - A couple of Guardians - Lots of Whaler action.
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As a former Marine Patrol officer I really enjoyed that movie, but I have never Jumped a Whaler over a waterfall
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| renoduckman |
Posted on 05/11/09 - 6:16 PM
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Thanks, i guess im not the only one. On Ncis i noticed a 17 tied up in the back ground when they were on a larger boat. And i do remember another one on Magnum pi where they were on an older outrage that had twins on it.
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Posted on 05/11/09 - 6:22 PM
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There was also a 13 in a Wrangler Jeans commercial a few years ago.
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Posted on 05/11/09 - 6:26 PM
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There is a very faint shot of a 17 in "Jaws". . .also if anyone has ever seen "Reno 911" movie, they use an outrage 22 as a getaway boat in one scene.
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| DaveS |
Posted on 05/12/09 - 5:52 AM
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Let's not forget my wife's favorite movie, "What About Bob?" with Bill Murry...great flick and even though the Whaler is just moored, it still looks good!
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| Troy |
Posted on 05/12/09 - 6:27 AM
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There's a science based reality show called Mythbusters. They tested the myth of a trailer staying attached to the boat while in the water. (As if someone unhitched from the tow vehicle and left the trailer and boat strapped together.) They took a 13' with the trailer still on it and went for a little cruise. Got up to about 5mph with an old 25 horse Mercury. One could argue that its not a fair test since a Whaler has so much more flotation than some other boats. Wonder what would have happened with another brand???
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Posted on 05/12/09 - 7:22 AM
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Whaler was also featured on a Discovery Channel show called "Some Assembly Required", they opened with the cut in half Whaler driving around a FL waterway and then went into the construction process. Here's a clip from that show of when the introduce the foam to the mold:
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/disco...-video.htm
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| uncledeck |
Posted on 05/12/09 - 10:38 AM
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In either "Flipper" or "Gentle Ben" the school bus was a 16'7" with a standard wood console, but with rows of bench seats.
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| ChelseaFish |
Posted on 05/12/09 - 3:47 PM
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MW wrote:
"Flipper" - Bud's 13' Whaler !
There were 3 diffrent 13 Whalers used in that movie and I was left one. My grandfather did some underwater filming and the underwater research for Miami Sea Aquarium.. the boat is just being refinished and named "Flipper" =)
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| mattgeiger |
Posted on 05/12/09 - 5:24 PM
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Troy wrote:
There's a science based reality show called Mythbusters.
And in the episode where they tested to see if a rowing team could pull a water skier, you can see an 18, a 15 and a 13 - all used by the film crew.
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| CES |
Posted on 05/12/09 - 5:25 PM
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ChelseaFish wrote:There were 3 diffrent 13 Whalers used in that movie and I was left one. My grandfather did some underwater filming and the underwater research for Miami Sea Aquarium.. the boat is just being refinished and named "Flipper" =)
Wow...that is awesome! Do you know where the other to 13's are located?
Sure would be kind of cool to find out all three serial numbers too.....my boat came from south Florida and is a 1966 13' sport. I always wondered if it were ever in Flipper.
Post some pictures!
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Posted on 05/12/09 - 6:18 PM
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Am I the only one who saw the 13 named little wizard on The deadliest catch. They lowered it over for the dude to dive under the boat a couple of weeks ago.
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| MW |
Posted on 05/13/09 - 1:10 AM
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WOW the original "Flipper" Whaler, THAT'S COOL ! I wonder what Sandy and Bud are doing now ? Remember when "Bud" went into the old shark cage and got stuck ? "Flipper" swam all the way back to "Coral Key" and got Dad for Help.
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| ChelseaFish |
Posted on 05/13/09 - 4:39 PM
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CES wrote:
ChelseaFish wrote:There were 3 diffrent 13 Whalers used in that movie and I was left one. My grandfather did some underwater filming and the underwater research for Miami Sea Aquarium.. the boat is just being refinished and named "Flipper" =)
Wow...that is awesome! Do you know where the other to 13's are located?
Sure would be kind of cool to find out all three serial numbers too.....my boat came from south Florida and is a 1966 13' sport. I always wondered if it were ever in Flipper.
Post some pictures!
Wish I knew where the others were! I bet yours was! I will take some pics tmrw...I put one up on my profile of the first Flipper..It's pretty cool =)
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| LabCab |
Posted on 05/13/09 - 6:05 PM
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The original movie "Flipper" was released in 1963 starring Chuck Connors. The TV show "Flipper" ran from 1963-1967. The boat featured in that was a blue 13 unsmirked standard. Chelseafish shows a '76 on his or her personal page. Maybe it was used in the 1996 movie "Flipper" starring Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood? Any way the under sea photography in the original "Flipper" TV show is wonderful. The colors are still crisp on a new HDTV. I got the series first 30 episodes on DVD from eBay for 12.99. My preteen children love it. And there are shots of the Whaler in almost every episode. What a cool boat for a couple of minimally supervised kids to tool around in.
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