What kind of boat is this
 

Taking a break, watching flipper, "the angry female congressman episode"
flipper teaches her a valuable life lesson and she spares coral key park from the chopping block.
Anyway theres this twin engine boat in that episode that made me think of the monkey crashing the boat episode.
as luck would have it its on youtube but its been adulterated.

Looks like Bertram, Donzi, Aronow. I would say definitely something Arowon built. But just a guess.

Thunderbird is my guess
as was the tri hull

I am would think a 25' +/- Thunderbird or Bertram.

I'm still struggling with the idea of searching "Flipper" on YouTube. :)

..........Why not? I'm gonna take my 3 year old daughter to see a local dolphin show today so this thread is a winner for me!

RR



P.S. Off topic but we're home from the dolphin show now and she loved it! Thank you 'outonsafari' for giving me the idea. 🙂

Saw this on the internet, so it must be true!...........


"Update: Alert Viewer Bob Stone says the boat used in Flipper was NOT a Chris Craft, but a 25-foot Thunderbird, made in North Miami. “It was a new design and was given to the show for promotion use.” The boat also had one of the first Inboard/Outboard engines from OMC – which was quite an innovation at the time.Aug 1, 1996"

Formula

That was one of my guesses on first glance at the hull line but I was told all the vintage Formulas were Stb helms.

Thunderbird which was the predecessor to formula

Nothing like a Formula 233, well maybe a Nova Marine Sprint 24 is the ultimate.
 

It's a Formula 233 by Thunderbird. A local to me 1964 Formula 233 got the port helm(photo), and so did many post Aronow produced Formula. This local 1964 was made in the Thunderbird California plant, and the second photo shows Peter Rothschild, Larry Smith(Team Scarab founder at port helm) and Chuck Daigh in Peter's Formula 233 during the legendary 1966 Los Angeles to San Francisco offshore endurance race, when they beat Don Aronow and the whole East Coast offshore racing elite.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...01e5ca19c3.jpg
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...fc1ade4a8b.jpg

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...9e65c8e955.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...8c21f1320a.jpg
this is the boat in earlier episode, thats the angry female and her aid in the back, they came in hot and were getting hollered at by ranger ricks.
the footage of them coming in was used in the crash scene and the boat pictured was the one that crashed.
easy to see the red stripe on the crashed boat in the video.

Ahh...Flipper. A staple in my day, loved the boat, loved the house/dock, loved the life, loved the fish.
Thunderbird Iroquois:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...1775ac2941.jpg

One thing I respect about OSO is the knowledge that is available here, I made a statement and proved wrong (and that is what this place is about).

There is a Formula boat website that has all the 1970's brochures, when I went through them some time ago, I am pretty sure that the boats were Stb helms...also had a client with an oldie that he loved that claimed they were all Stb..

https://www.formulaboats.com/brochur...ula-brochures/

I saw this boat for sale down in Fla few yrs back.
In fact it was for sale by Cadillac who sold the old 30’ Velocity race boat to the two brothers.

A cool dude.

I set it up for a couple buddies and I to ride our motorcycles down for a visit/tour.