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Quint's Boat in "Jaws"?
Can anyone tell me the make/ model of the boat, ORCA used by Robert Shaw (Quint) in the movie "Jaws", or was it just something generic whipped up by the studio?
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- HoneyBunnyLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
According to the boat handlers who worked on the film, Quint's boat, "Orca", was a studio fabrication based upon a boat purchased locally. After the special effects team finished with it, it was so top-heavy as to be unseaworthy. Ballast would correct that, but the only large quantity of lead that could be located locally was owned by a local dentist who was going to use it to shield his X-Ray room. So that was rented from him at an exorbitant fee. The fake Orca, designed to sink, was actually more seaworthy than the real thing.
Source(s): IMDb trivia section - sunburstLv 69 years ago
I can't tell you the make and model and I don't know whether they were built especially for the movie, but I know that they used two boats. One was rigged deliberately to sink so that they could film the final scene with the shark climbing into it, and it was made so that they could un-sink it and film the scene over if necessary. (My source: book, The Making of Jaws.)
