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

Hi Glenn,

There seems to be a handful of tandem axle EJO trailers around, mostly under Deluxe 17's. Or they might have been modified over the past 40+ years by their owners? I've often been curious why the 19's didn't get treated to a tandem axle as std equipment?

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From: "Glenn comcast" <glennhalweg@...>
Reply-To: omc-boats@...
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:19:44 -0500

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