that means it is only 12 foot with 18 inch beak...

The family had a 13' Whaler with a 40hp when I growing up, spent the summer in Brigintine, NJ where there was a Whaler dealer, so getting Whaler races was pretty easy. And there was a 13' Whaler with a 50 Mercury that was just faster, and that made my father look for speeed in my Whaler for me, he raised the X-dimension by putting a 2"x 4" piece of wood on under the transom bracket to raise the X - dimension, then bang some cup into the prop with the hammer (blueprinting Jersey garage style), the boat was faster but, still I could not get around that 50 hp Whaler. I like the looks of this 13' with the 55 hp. I had a ball driving the 13' Whaler growing up.

We just sold our 15' Whaler last summer and that had a 60 hp Johnson ran 43 mph, that was a great 15' boat.

Gotta love the Whalers. Here was the 15', I miss those easy six pack of Budweiser- Whaler rides, in the summer evenings at the shore...

You said shameless plug, I love the fact you posted this. I like that Whaler you have. Any 13' Whaler with a 55 hp on the transom is a winner. Great thread, great little boats, lots of great Jersey Shore memories were made in 13' and 15' Whalers...

Thanks, yes these boats were great boats to grow up with.

I was going to take off the lower and fab a nose cone with a low water pickup and send the prop out , but I came across the 17 montauk last year and I decided to put the money into that.

Keep that Whaler....

I learned how to ski behind one with a 50 merc.

15' hobie .. had a jet in it.. going to put a 70 hp ob on it .. have less than 200.00 in it so far

mine had a 40 2-stroke Evinruude!
if i'm not mistaken it'd do fourty mph

Bought my girls an 89 super sport with a honda 25 on it last year. i figured they could putt around on it over the summer. Turns out that boat gets twice the hours of any other boat in the fleet. Even my wife and I love taking it out. They are great boats and if you buy one used the value holds up awesome.

Yes , the value of these things hold up extremely well for a boat. It's amazing , you can buy one keep it clean use the crap out of it and get basically all your money back when you sell it. Try and do that with a performance boat....