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

My "one of a kind" trailer comment refered to some trailers that were made
stronger with dual axle's and sealed drum style brakes.

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From: "Tom Paquette" <tpaquette@...>
To: <omc-boats@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: [omc-boats] Sportsman engine model/serial # lookup?

> Man my trailer could hold a house and it's for a 14'. Well said Lee.
>
> Tom
> Charlotte, NC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-omc-boats@... [mailto:owner-omc-boats@...]
> On
> Behalf Of Lee Shuster
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:46 PM
> To: omc-boats@...
> Subject: RE: [omc-boats] Sportsman engine model/serial # lookup?
>
> Jeff,
>
> You don't say (a picture would be worth a thousand words) what trailer you
> have under your boat, but most of our boats (mine was an exception) were
> sold as a package with the OMC custom-designed trailer, tailor-made by the
> factory for the specific boat.
>
> Back in the late fifties and early sixties, boat dealers and unsuspecting,
> newbie buyers would specify the bare minimum trailer in a short-sighted
> effort to save $25 to $50 (back then that was a lot!).
>
> OMC engineers came up with a very innovative and well-designed, very
> robustly built trailer, first for the 17, then the 14,16, & 19-ft. See:
> http://hhscott.com/evinrude/omc_trailers.htm
>
> They even used disc brakes and an innovative torsion-bar, rubber isolated
> (a
> la Torflex ?) independent suspension axle and a great titlting mechanism.
> Yes, by today's standards they are a bit long in the tooth (narrow track
> axle & rather odd size tires) but rickety and flismy they were not
> (properly
> maintained, especially compared to the trailers of their era. And because
> they were designed specifically to match the boat, they were well-balanced
> with respect to forward-bias tongue weight, something a lot of dealers
> didn't bother to do properly (some still don't).
>
> Lee Shuster
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "jdood" <jdood@...>
> Reply-To: omc-boats@...
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:37:13 -0700
>
>>I'd like to know who came up with the trailer design for my 65
>>Deluxe......that rickety thing scares the hell out of me every time I
>>have to unhitch it!
>>
>>jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>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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