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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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"Flipper" - Bud's 13' Whaler !

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"The Italian Job" - The getaway boat looks like an Outrage 22

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Striking Distance - A couple of Guardians - Lots of Whaler action.

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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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As a former Marine Patrol officer I really enjoyed that movie, but I have never Jumped a Whaler over a waterfall:o

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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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There was also a 13 in a Wrangler Jeans commercial a few years ago.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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'B). 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

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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.

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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".

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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 :P

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................

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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!

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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!

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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]

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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.

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I saw a Whaler on the "A"-Team but tracking the episode eludes me for now.

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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!