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The original 1961 Life magazine ad pictured Dick Fisher sitting in a floating 13-foot (4.0 m) Whaler with a crosscut saw halfway through the hull. [5] After the cut was completed, Fisher used the stern section to tow the bow section back to shore. Modern Whaler advertising uses a chain saw.
Dick Fisher marketed his first foam-filled Boston Whaler as unsinkable. Here he sits watching as a lumberjack saw cuts the boat in half.
In 1958, in a garage in Braintree, an eccentric Harvard grad named Dick Fisher revolutionized nautical design when he began crafting a little boat that looked like a blue bathtub. He called his...
Boston Whaler was founded in 1958 by Richard T. “Dick” Fisher, who introduced the revolutionary Unibond construction method. This innovative technique involved moulding the boat hull and deck into one piece, then filling the cavity with foam, creating a boat that was virtually unsinkable.
A history of Boston Whaler was recently published, chronicling the fascinating story of how partners Dick Fisher and Bob Pierce, working with designer Ray Hunt, developed the hullform inspired by the Hickman Sea Sled.
That gave Fisher a compelling reason to come: His father, also named Dick Fisher, was the father of the Boston Whaler, a boat he conceived in conjunction with famed boat designer and...
Four years after building the first Boston Whaler, company founder Dick Fisher resorted to drastic measures to prove to people that he also had developed the first unsinkable production boat.
