Re: [omc-boats] Sportsman engine model/serial # lookup?

Ah yes, yet another interesting little fact/question on our beloved boats!

With respect to your question about white gunwales on the 16-foot Evinrude hulls:

My guess is you are talking about the cover shot of the Sweet 16 running the 90-S on the 1965 MOTORS brochure:
http://www.old-omc.de/e_1965/seite_01front.jpg

The answer is yes. The original 1964 introduction of the Sweet and Sport 16 outboards had the deck gel color (blur or gray) extending down the sides to the rub or spray molding rail and also over the brow on the bow.

As either a running change or a model year change the "1965" Sweet/Sport-16 ran the "white" gel up the sides to meet at the horizonal surface. But the more interesting variation is the bow treatment above the rub rail. Some remain dark while some were white. Also, the cutoff for this change isn't real clear. Some boats that people think were registered as 1965 models, may have been leftover 1964 models, or they may have just been incorporated as "running" change.

In my opinion this was done to give the illusion of more freeboard, rather than better looks. The 66 and 67 model Sportsmans continued with white sides and white brows at the bow.

When the upper deck molding changed with the 68 models, they used a dark navy blue side above and below the rail.

That gave way to a red/blue combination treatment on the 69 - 70 models.

Hope this makes sense.

Lee Shuster

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Phil Budne <phil@...>
Reply-To: omc-boats@...
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:42:37 -0400 (EDT)

>> From: <lib1@...>
>
>> Over at www.fiberglassics.com they like to use JEGO for
>> Johnson/Evinrude/Gale/OMC as they are typically talking about older
>> outboards, not stringer sterndrives. see: http://www.fiberglassics.com/jego/
>
>Thanks! I've added this link to my site. The JEGO page also has a
>link to www.old-omc.de which is replete with old catalogs.
>
>The 1965 Evinrude engine catalog;
>
> http://www.old-omc.de/index2.html
>
>Shows a Sweet '16 with white gunwales -- did boats ever come from
>the factory like this?
>
>> Note: Us old farts remember when Gale was another badge-engineered brand of
>> OMC outboard and later the Parts & Accessory Division of Outboard Marine
>> Corporation.
>
>I was born in '61, and they stopped using the gale name around then,
>so at least I'm not an old fart in one part of my life!
>
>P.S.
>I've never tried to make a list of engine model numbers, but
>I do note them on my boat models list when people send them to me:
>
>
>http://www.gull-wing.net/data.html
>
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