![]() ![]() ![]() The Chrysler ad from 6/73 lists as options: “Spinnaker with gear foredeck launcher tube boom vang hiking straps cockpit cover seat cushions motor bracket jib barber haulers Chrysler trailer.” The early photos from 19 also show a motor mount on the port side of the transom. The earliest marketing photos (sail #17 in a 1971/1972 Chrysler ad) shows the Mutineer with a fabric or vinyl flap ostensibly covering the launching snout in front of the jib tack, and photos in the 1972/1973 ads show the boat sailing with a spinnaker. The original model had a large opening in the bulkhead to access the entire forward hull space with a removable fiberglass cover, jib tracks on the gunwale, a centerboard trunk cap that was riveted onto the lower half of the fiberglass trunk, with 2 narrow trim pieces of teak on top. The mahogany rudderhead was soon changed to the cast aluminum rudderhead. ![]() Roy Bacon, Chrysler Sales Manager, at the helm of an early Mutineer with the mahogany rudderhead. The original Mutineers sported a mahogany rudderhead and tube-on-tube jib furling. Released in August 1971, they had a model year of 1972 which is a standard practice in the marine industry. Because of its success, Chrysler approached the Buccaneer designers Rod Macalpine-Downie and Dick Gibbs to design a “smaller, less expensive Buccaneer” that would appeal to families as well as potential racers.ġ971 – Chrysler Boat Corporation (CBC) introduces the Mutineer, Model 283. Chrysler released the Buccaneer 18 sailboat in 1971.
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