Boat Porn!

[DEVO]

I met a guy year before last named Tom DeCosta, he keeps his green Parker 23 at Tripp's and fishes a lot, we hung out a little then but I never saw him last year for whatever reason. His boat was there all year two down from mine, not sure how I didn't see him. Maybe some relation? Can't be that many DeCostas around (unless it's a Portuguese name!).

Different Decosta. Lots of Decosta's in those parts

[willywhit]

I'm down in westport MA about half the time (soon to be full time thank baby jeebus I've been lucky), I keep my boat at Tripp's they used to make some decent South Coast boats. Also you can't forget about Dyer even though they're from RI. And Wasques were just from the other side of the Bay on the Vineyard, i think they count too. Ted Hood bought Wasque, they're making them in Marblehead now, sweet boats.

The South Coast boats are basically Downeast hulls, I'm a sucker for both. the Pettegrow 30 is maybe my favorite boat ever. It's a Wesmac-Pettegrow hybrid and so fucking badass.



I'll give The Suit the sporties if he'll buy me a Pettegrow 30 (this one's a 35 but I can't find a great 30 pic)

small world. I went Bishop Stang with Al Tripp, played football together. also went to friends academy with Marshall brothers from Concordia.
Chris fairfax ? ring a bell ? Biddles ? south Dartmouth was pretty salty growing up.

[Mazderati]

Good story and good production in this series. Restoration of a 1909 sailing yacht with a racing pedigree. Interesting story on the kid, too.

[Supermoon]

Got to spend the day out on the Alli Nui out of Maui the other day. Nice little day tourer.


Snorkeling, Maui, Hawaii by Phil Herbert, on Flickr

[The Suit]

Posting this because I fished a few days with Ritchie last week and he's a good guy.

60' Ritchie Howell:

[Mazderati]

Any relation to Thurston? Beautiful boat.

[The Suit]

Any relation to Thurston? Beautiful boat.

He didn't mention any, but maybe he's just humble like that.

[jgb@etree]

Robalo's finally in the water. Fortunately the delay didn't matter much as the water in my part of LIS is still hovering around 45 and the stripers don't start moving in en mass until the water reaches ~55. I guess it's time to start getting the rods and tackle ready for striper season.

[Supermoon]

Nice!

We just drove out to Portland this weekend to pick up our new wake boat. Unfortunately the weather was shitty, so we didn't get to take it out.

Axis T22 - going to be a blast this summer.

Here is a shitty screencap of an Instagram message our buddy send when he was prepping it. It was all wrapped up for transit when we picked it up.

[Sagamoron]

Posting this because I fished a few days with Ritchie last week and he's a good guy.

60' Ritchie Howell:

BOING!

There is one out of the cape I've seen fishing a few times, such an amazing looking ride.

[Bobby Stainless]

Wood paneling.

[SumJongGuy]

Wood paneling.

Pontoons with Paneling?? Family Truckster on Water!

[Bobby Stainless]

I want a pontoon boat. Double decker with slide and grill are must haves.

Bout like this.

[SumJongGuy]

Know what's better than owning a really nice boat? Having a good friend who owns a really nice boat!

[iceman]

I didn't know there was such a thing as a double-decker pontoon boat.

[schindlerpiste]

Finally in the water

[2FUNKY]

^ Sick, man!

[willywhit]

it's coun·ter·in·tu·i·tive

[TaosNH]

Nice canoe, green's an underrated color. you like paddling without seats?

I’ve done it a few times in other cedar/canvas boats, but it’s not ideal. There are seats in the boat but the picture angle doesn’t show them well. I generally sit/kneel any way as it is more stable.


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[willywhit]

Lotsa boats came out of the water for our lil Nor'Easter. Saw this beauty today on the Cape.
That's 4 350 outboards , pretty sick

[willywhit]

it's coun·ter·in·tu·i·tive

[Shredhead]

That's 4 350 outboards , pretty sick

That’s a lot of puppies to feed.

My roommate from college owns a chain of marinas in Florida and the center console, open fish is his market.

His personal boat never has more than two engines and the boat he leaves at his place in the Bahamas has one.

[neufox47]

That’s a lot of puppies to feed.

My roommate from college owns a chain of marinas in Florida and the center console, open fish is his market.

His personal boat never has more than two engines and the boat he leaves at his place in the Bahamas has one.

isn’t there only like a 10% increase by adding that fourth motor?

[Foggy_Goggles]

Yeah, but the CC and getting huge. The outboards are replacing inboards. What they can do by vectoring the motors which joy stick steering is amazing. If you want to run out to the Bahamas for the day and sleep in your own bed, it is the way to go. Ultimately it is just a dick swinging contest that makes little sense so what is the difference?

[schindlerpiste]

That's a cool boat. I will be on that red Nortech that I posted a pic of over Thanksgiving week. 3 400s. Top speed 80+ mph. I love center console boats. They are very versatile. Deep sea fishing, speed and comfort. I'm stoked and hopefully will catch 4 or 5 sails, a couple of roosters, dorado and ahi.