Bad ass 13 ft whaler
 

Anyone looking for a fast 13 whaler here is a link to my eBay listing. Shameless plug. Tom

281338559321. eBay item number

When I was a kid I had a 13'6" Whaler with a 40hp and it was FAST!!, that thing has got to fly. How does it handle with that power?

Lee there 13'4". I have 2 now and had one when I was a kid. Only reason I'm sure of this is Massachusetts requires a title for all boats 14' and over and they round up. So being 13'4" it still qualifies as 13' and no title needed.

That may be true in your case but I measured mine with an official Fountain measuring tape and I stand by my 13'6" :whistle:

NY gives u a transferable reg which is the title in those years. Maybe it is 13.4 that would be my mistake. Not a total whaler buff. I just decided to do this thing a few years ago. It was fun . I now have a 17 with a 90 hp yamaha , along with the other 5 boats. Tom

It will do 45 plus but, I think it will crack 50 if u got the balls.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281338559321...321%26_rdc%3D1

7K is all the money for that......You ought to post it on Continuouswave.com
http://continuouswave.com/cgi-bin/fo...ne=&LastLogin=


I have a 15 standard with a F60 Yamaha 4 stroke- runs 41 GPS but it likes to chine walk over 38-39....

Actually the reserve is less than 1k of the buy it now.

Tom hope it didn't sound like I was calling anyone out or being arrogant. I just had a panic years back with my first one when I got it and didn't have a title. Picture being 11 years old happy as hell to have your own first boat and dad says "good job and good luck registering without a title" I think I **** my pants, and my heart didn't recover until I found I could register it as 13' lol

When I was about 7 one of the kids in the cove had a 13' Whaler with 35 or 40 Merc 2 stroke. Me and him became friends real fast. Would love to have one now to relive old memories they are a blast

No problem . I wanted it as tender for my sea ray, but I never used for that. I ran it around a few times on the sound and my back killed me afterwards. This boat belongs on a lake or to be used during the week. A lot of fun, but you need a strong back if you want to run it in any real water. Tom

I have one. It had a merc 50. I put on a 70. It's a beast.

My first boat! Loved it. Had a 25 HP Johnson. No steering wheel - had to use the tiller and gear shift on the motor. Not permitted to take it out till I could crank it by myself (no battery start) and change the shear pin in the prop if I hit something. I was 9. Beat your brains out in a chop, but what a great boat for a kid.

Agree, I use to go water skiing every day during the summer when I was a kid with the same boat , but it had a 35 Johnson. When this one came around I bought it had a tiller handle 25 hp motor , ripped that off and the rest was history, had to create a fast whaler. Have to many toys , don't use this enough so it's time to cut it loose..

these things have a fierce following. In the last year i have had two in the shop for painstaking gel restoration per owner. One of them was brought in fully stripped and had 100% of the gel restored to OEM specs with new non skid done in Gibco flex at a cost of nearly 10K in gel work. The other is similar but the owner has opted to do a lot of the grunt work himself with me doing a partial Gibco flex and the finish gel. These guys really like these things and they seem to have a strong following. Great little boats

over theses lli lobf you have a sightseeing trip I'm there

:confused: . . . . . :D

That is hard liquor talkin right there!

He must have some hangover this morning......

I'm guessin noon before he gets back around to this lol

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....

On the subject of whaler hull lengths (post classic whalers, not current bathtub looking whalers)

A 13 is 13'4, the 15 is 15'5 and the 17 is 16'4.......It made a huge difference when I bought my 15 since it was going in a garage at a 2nd home 200+ miles away and I didn't want to be obligated to trailering it back/forth. The 15 fit in the garage (with a collapsible tongue on the trailer) by less than 1/2 inch. I measured, thought I had it until the first time I put it in the garage, the door supports on the back of the garage door stuck out like 4 inches and would hit the trailer with the door about 10 inches off the ground (so close). I thought of notching the supports on the lowest section until my uncle said, just tilt the trailer off to one side of the garage......he was right! Swing the trailer over a foot to one side and it gave you more walking space on one side and the door closed no problem!

The 13 is the most common, the 15 is supposedly the best ride and the 17 is a great all around boat though it can porpoise at higher speeds requiring the dolphin tale thing on the lower unit (at least that is what a guy told me with a high hp 17).

my 17 runs flat and does not porpoise with a 90hp yamaha 2 stroke. no dolphin wing.