wahoo boats

[crabman]

Does anyone know who bought wahoo? I can't find any info on my wahoo 2050 efs. There has to be some trail to where this company went.

 

[11 footer]

Re: wahoo boats

Someone from the Boston Whaler company left whaler and started produceing Wahoo's, or so I've heard. I also heard from the classic whaler forum that I post on that they ended up getting sued by whaler, I think they stoped makeing them.<br /><br />They look to be the same thing as a real whaler, I saw a 15foot Wahoo this summer and if it wasn't for the sticker I would know have known it wasn't a whaler.

 

[MajBach]

Re: wahoo boats

My understand is that the two were brothers or in-laws. Who know, maybe just co-founders that split up. I thought they stopped making them too. A friend has an 18' Wahoo and is every bit as good or better than the Whaler.

 

[WHALER27CC]

Re: wahoo boats

I have 16 Wahoo and it was/is a terrific boat.Wahoo was a company out of Ashland Virgina that started building tri-hulls VERY similar to Whaler, with the same claim of unsinkable, foam filled.The main difference in the overall design/build was that Wahoos had a separate hull/liner that were foam LINED, with a void(bilge) in between. Whaler is foam FILLED with the hull/liner being one bonded unit with no voids.Wahoo started building boats under the original ownership from roughly the early to mid 80s to early 90s. After many years of legal battles with Whaler,and low market share they went into bankruptcy, and the company was ironically sold to Brunswick. Brunswick kept the company, eventually shuffling it into the the Robalo line. Robalo phased out the molds in a short period of time, bringing an end to the Wahoo lineage.<br />Wahoo By Pacemaker, was a MODEL not a line of boats. Pacemaker only made the 26, which is no relation to the Wahoo line of boats.<br />I hope this helps clarify .