The Boatniks is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Norman Tokar and starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Don Ameche and Phil Silvers.

Wally Cox had a supporting role playing a man who manages a boat for girls to give parties for the purposes of socializing with men.

Lieutenant Jordan, U.S. Coast Guard, responds to a number of pleas for help from civilian pleasure boat sailors around Southern California's Balboa Island.

It also does not take long for him to fall for Kate Fairchild, a "girl next door" who runs a local boat rental and sailing school spot on the coast.

With Kate's suggestion that the crooks' suspicious behavior might indicate criminality, she and Tom begin to suspect that they are indeed the three men reported about in a newspaper article.

"[9] Writing in The Washington Post, Judith Martin thought the film was "better than most", but she expressed concern about the "humor based on national and sexual stereotypes", including "[t]wo separate instances of the old Mexican-American caricature done in a way that no one would dare do about blacks these days.

"[10] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Characteristically wholesome Disney comedy, quite enjoyable on its own unsophisticated level though not in the same class as The Love Bug, mainly because of a surfeit of dialogue (and a consequent lack of sight gags) and Robert Morse's slight unease in conveying the central character's easygoing amiability.