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

Lee,

Since OMC sold engines to other companies there's no guarantee any specific
engine was in a OMC boat. The Stringer's were still being built after the
boat line was discontinued.

Another interesting fact/question, some of these boats and trailers where
"one of a kind". OMC had a Special Services Division the engineers and
exec's could have a boat built to there spec's, and a lot of them did. They
also built boats for various boat shows around the country, the boats at the
shows where for sale. The 1968 Rogue I bought was the display model for the
Chicago Boat Show. Even the trailers on some of these where one of a kind.

Glenn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Shuster" <lib1@...>
To: <omc-boats@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:42 PM
Subject: 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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