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Boston Whaler 190
Everybody knows the Boston Whaler Montauk. It’s hard to name a center console, any center console, with a more illustrious history and pedigree. The Montauk has been around for so long, and so many of them have been built, that it’s a good bet that most of you reading this have spent time on one.
I sure have. I learned to water ski behind a Montauk, and caught lots of fish out of that same boat, a classic owned by a friend of my father’s.At any point, throughout my entire life, I’ve known at least one person who owns a Montauk, a remarkable statement and a testament to the boat’s enduring legacy.
But in addition, all Montauks shared something else—a length of 17 feet. Now, after all these years, Whaler has had the audacity to introduce a new, larger Montauk! Heresy, you say? Hardly. Once you see the new 190, you’ll wonder why they waited so long, because this boat makes a lot of sense.
Like previous versions, the new 190 is an eminently practical all-around platform, which will prove adept at a great many tasks. Like all Whalers, it comes with unsinkable Unibond construction, wherein the hull and liner are bonded together with high-density structural foam filling all interior spaces of the boat. This creates a very rigid, super strong final product, which Whaler compares to a “structural Ibeam” in terms of strength. That’s how they can keep sawing them in half and driving giant dump trucks over their hulls to display this strength.
But as a potential Whaler owner, none of you are likely to drive a dump truck over your boat, nor saw it into pieces, so, to you, this strength means warranty—a ten-year transferable limited hull warranty, one of the strongest in the business.
The new Montauk features the same wide-open design that has made many of the smaller Whalers so popular. There’s a bow locker forward, in the center of a raised casting deck, useful for holding the boat’s anchor and rode, and the bow platform is surrounded by a high profile stainless steel bow rail.
Another pair of stainless rails extend aft along the sides of the boat and provide sure handholds.You can order an optional filler piece that converts the forward casting platform into a sun lounge and you can also delete the bow rail. The console contains the boat’s battery, accessed through a door on the port side, and a cooler serves as the forward console seat.
At the stern, a storage box just forward of the engine well can be optionally plumbed as a livewell, and the leaning post has lots of storage space beneath the seat, plus a reversible seat back, a design pioneered by Whaler. There are two rod holders on either side of the aft storage box/livewell, and four more on the forward edge of the console.
The 190 Montauk only comes with one power option, a 115 hp Mercury four-stroke. At a 4500 rpm cruise, the 190 hits 28.3 mph with the 115, and it tops out at 40 mph at 6100 rpm.We ran the boat in flat water, but like all smaller Whalers, count on this new Montauk to hold its own in a chop, and be extremely stable underway or at rest.
This new, larger Montauk will be a sure hit. It’s fun, versatile, and may be the ideal choice for a fishing family. And that’s what Boston Whaler has been about for almost 50 years.
