17′ 1969 Boston Whaler

Redone by the folks at Barton & Gray

Walking for coffee at the Ocean Reef Club’s 2025 Vintage Weekend and right off the bat, you run into this beautiful 1969 Whaler 17. She was redone by the folks at Barton & Gray and serves as one of their runabouts. Simply stunning—and with a modern Yamaha, reliable too. The full spray of bedliner protecting the trailer has got us thinking too. Stay tuned for more from Vintage Weekend. We’re already seeing a couple of big old boats lined up at the dock that are mind-blowing.

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Chris Dixon

Senior Editor, Power & Motoryacht
Chris Dixon is the author of Ghost Wave and The Ocean, The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge. His writing has appeared in The New York Times bestseller The Southerner’s Handbook. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Outside, Popular Mechanics and Garden & Gun. He grew up boating, fishing and surfing along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, once spent a year working and traveling with Jimmy Buffett and today lives in Charleston with his wife, son and daughter.

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