- Founded
- —
- Headquarters
- Edgewater, Florida, USA
- Shipyard location
- Same as headquarters
- Official website
- https://www.bostonwhaler.com/
Brand Overview
American builder of foam-filled, 'unsinkable' outboard boats from Edgewater, Florida, part of Brunswick Corporation — twenty-one models from 6.5 m entered here, from the 210 Montauk to the 13-metre 420 Outrage, in the Montauk, Dauntless, Vantage, Conquest, Realm and Outrage series.
YachtCodex Analysis
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What this builder is
Boston Whaler says it was founded more than sixty years ago by Richard Fisher, who was so confident in his fail-safe boat that he tested it in public, a demonstration LIFE magazine documented; the yard still says you can cut a Whaler in two and drive away in the half with the engine. Its Unibond construction fills the hull with proprietary foam for flotation and strength — the Unsinkable Legend — and government agencies and military forces use the boats. Whalers are built at the factory in Edgewater, Florida, whose campus houses the Brunswick Boat Group Technical Center, where designers, engineers and naval architects develop boats for Boston Whaler and Sea Ray; the company is part of the Brunswick family. The range has seven series: the Super Sport and Montauk small boats, the Dauntless bay boats, the Vantage dual consoles, the Conquest cabin boats, the Realm express cruisers and the Outrage offshore centre consoles, up to the flagship 420 Outrage. All are outboard boats, with Mercury power, Simrad electronics, Seakeeper gyro-stabilisation and, on the 405 Conquest, Simrad AutoCaptain auto-docking. Each model page prints imperial specifications, and its downloadable spec sheet adds metric figures: length, beam, draft, dry and wet weight, tanks, persons capacity and the maximum and minimum horsepower.
Who sails them
Whaler owners are anglers, divers and families who want a boat they trust when the weather turns — inshore and bay fishermen on the Montauk and Dauntless, families who cruise, fish and tow on the Vantage, owners who stay aboard overnight on the Conquest and Realm, and offshore crews on the Outrage centre consoles, alongside the government and military fleets that use the same hulls.
Signature models
The Montauk is the time-tested classic of the range and the Outrage the offshore line, crowned by the 420 Outrage flagship; the 405 Conquest with Simrad AutoCaptain and the 330 Outrage are presented on the site as award-winning models.
Strengths
Boston Whaler is known for Unibond foam-filled unsinkable hulls, 316-L stainless rails and hardware, a gel-coated finish even in the bilges, a long list of patents, an in-house development team at Edgewater, Mercury, Simrad and Seakeeper partnerships, a range from 13-foot boats to the 42-foot 420 Outrage, and use by government and military fleets.
Considerations
The model pages print imperial units only; the metric figures come from each model's spec sheet PDF, which in places disagrees with its own imperial figures (the 380 Realm's 38 feet printed as 11.89 m, several fuel and draft figures), so those are converted from the imperial figures and noted, and the 280 Vantage beam is left empty. Horsepower is the boat's total rating, not per engine, and the 280 Outrage page and sheet differ (600 and 800 hp). No speeds are entered (the performance sheets each cover one test boat), no cabins or berths are printed, and boats under 6 m (Super Sport, 150 to 190 Montauk) are not entered.
Analysis generated 10/17/2026
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Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 21
- Length range
- 6.5–13 m
- Hull forms
- Motor Monohull 21
Models by this brand
21 models
Vantage4
Dauntless3
Outrage7
Conquest4
History
Boston Whaler says that since its founding more than sixty years ago it has set out to build the safest, easiest-to-own and most exciting boats on the water. Its founder, Richard Fisher, was so confident in his fail-safe boat that he tested it publicly, and LIFE magazine documented the whole thing; the company still says you can cut a Whaler in two and drive away in the half with the engine. That promise rests on its proprietary foam-filled Unibond hull construction, which gives the flotation and strength behind the 'Unsinkable Legend', and government agencies and military forces around the world rely on the boats. Whalers are built at the factory in Edgewater, Florida, where the company's designers, engineers and naval architects hold a long list of patents; improved facilities and technology have let it build more and larger boats, up to the flagship 420 Outrage. Boston Whaler is part of the Brunswick family.
History written frombostonwhaler.com/us/en/about-boston-whaler· About Boston Whalerread 10/17/2026