Boat Porn!

[iceman]

Mercurys are solid, learned to sail on them, look out port tack rudder rule[/quote}

Hey I learned on Mercury's too, you didn't happen to go to Monomoy (cape cod sea camps) by any wild chance?

I always liked South Coast bass boats, Fortiers and Brownells

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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)

[The Suit]

Same thing, different league

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Hey, that's the Penade! I remember that boat fishing in the Nantucket Billfish Tournament in the late '90s. If I'm remembering correctly it was a husband & wife that owned and fished her. I remember the wife telling me she didn't like catching tuna, because they were too much work. I couldn't understand that back then, but now I totally get it.

[iceman]

Suit, are you familiar with the Stradivarius saga?

[dunfree]

Best boat I’ve ever had, though I’m on the lookout for a 16’ or 17’ royalex whitewater machine to add to the stable too...


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

[The Suit]

Suit, are you familiar with the Stradivarius saga?

I think so, vaguely. That was a custom raised bridge express boat that some dude built in Rhode Island and documented the whole process online? I looked at the build thread a few times, if that's what you're talking about.

Edit: Holy shit! I googled it. Collided with a trawler going 20 knots in a dense fog. I found this gem in a The Hull Truth thread:

we can make the following assumptions about the strad:

-- They were operating at an unsafe speed for their conditions
-- They failed to maintain a proper watch
-- They failed to monitor vhf communications during reduced visibility
-- They weren't monitoring their radar
-- They drove an ugly boat

[iceman]

It was such a shitshow. Guy was a total braggart about his boat "the best sportfisher ever built" (perhaps not a direct quote but really close) and he rubbed everyone's noses in it. He spent literally millions on it. Then it sank. Without hitting anything. And the guy's very lucrative business fell apart about the same time and it all went to shit. And the guy got crazier and crazier as it went on.

I can provide some pretty juicy (but very long) links if you want, let me know if so.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Ice, what do you think about a Back Cove 37?



Pretty sweet to be able to cruise at 20kts up the ICW. First time driving a boat with bow and stern thrusters. I'm a sailor at heart but this is one sweet boat.

[warthog]

That's a beaut.

[refried]

I used to have a 22' Sisu Bass Boat, full keel with an outboard and a big flat deck, It was a great fishing boat


internet picture, but it had the same blue hull

[Marshall Tucker]

Look close there are 3 of them on the back-350 Verados.
I get the hate.

Just messin man but you know that. I know your pedigree. As you've probably guessed been out of that scene a long, long time. To memory they also came in white in the late 60s early 70s some

[iceman]

Foggy those back coves are nice. Not as spendy as say an MJM, but not cheap. Never really heard a bad thing about the company. I bet it was fun to run.

Refried those little Sisu's are nice. So versatile and economical to run and able to handle about anything.

With outboards they're all good these days and they all seem to have some haters too. Price and availability of good service in your area are deciding factors in my mind.

[Skistack]

I used to have a 22' Sisu Bass Boat, full keel with an outboard and a big flat deck, It was a great fishing boat


internet picture, but it had the same blue hull

BASS BOAT?

Son, this is a bass boat.

[refried]

BASS BOAT?

Son, this is a bass boat.

Those little things you catch on 6 pound test in the farm pond aren't bass, This is a real bass


internet picture

[Marshall Tucker]

sorry can't resist

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-l...ssomatic/n8631

[2FUNKY]

That stripah is fucking huge. Love chasing those fish on the Delta in Cali. and in the Sac river. I'm due for a trip.

[Mazderati]

sorry can't resist

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-l...ssomatic/n8631

Yes. Excellent reference.

[XXX-er]

Look close there are 3 of them on the back-350 Verados.



Some of the best boat builders in the world are sold, but I get the hate.
BTW- they come in white now too.

in bali last year I noticed every boat had out board power, however wide the transom was if there was room to hang another motor they did ... not unusual to see 3 4 5 or 6 out boards

[warthog]

Easier maintenance, easier to replace, less draft, if one dies, you still get home... eventually.

You lose the transom room and the platform off the back.
Also not advisable to wake surf behind an OB boat.

[abraham]

I can provide some pretty juicy (but very long) links if you want, let me know if so.

This is the internet, we have time. Post the story (or links)

[warthog]

With outboards they're all good these days and they all seem to have some haters too. Price and availability of good service in your area are deciding factors in my mind.

True- Yammi, Merc, and Suzuki are well represented here, so that is all you see. I would add that availability of parts is a big issue too. Suzuki sold a mess of motors for cheap with huge warranties, but they are light on replacement parts due to the volume they sold. Warranty is no good if the boat sits for months waiting for the "free" parts and labor.

[iceman]

@ abraham: Well some of the old threads have been deleted by the owner of the bot and a lot of the old pics are gone because of photobucket. This guy from Boston was making a ton of money selling window systems for highrises back in the early 2000's. He was insufferable, just going on and on about how it was the ultimate sportfisherman. Best design, best construction process, best engine, etc etc.

The boat was ugly as sin in the opinion of many including me but the guy scoffed. Well he finally got it done and it basically broke. Stringers cracked and there was no way to get at them. Plus thr guy's business went in the shitter and he was out of money. Then the builder went bankrupt too. The boat was put up for sale but who would want a broken boat? Some boat builder bought it for pennies on the dollar. Years went by and they finally got the boat back together and it was put back up for sale. Here's that thread (it's long)

on the first trip from the yacht broker it crashed into a trawler in heavy fog at 20 knots plus. Here's that thread: https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating...adivarius.html

Here's how it ended up:



total loss

It's kind of a slog in those threads, that's the clifs notes version. The guy was such a cocky fuck and so full of himself that nobody was crying.

[DEVO]

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

Iceman, you don't happen to know a Gary Decosta who keeps his boat at Tripps? Real good striper fisherman. Caught my personal best with him (45lb). Great guy.

[iceman]

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!).

[Sagamoron]

It was such a shitshow. Guy was a total braggart about his boat "the best sportfisher ever built" (perhaps not a direct quote but really close) and he rubbed everyone's noses in it. He spent literally millions on it. Then it sank. Without hitting anything. And the guy's very lucrative business fell apart about the same time and it all went to shit. And the guy got crazier and crazier as it went on.

I can provide some pretty juicy (but very long) links if you want, let me know if so.

Arguably, the greatest thread on the Hull Truth. That guy had people sucking him off right and left just to get a boat ride to canyons... He was such a douche, calling out his own crew who missed gaff shots on yellowfins(mostly b/c his crew were inexperienced b/c no one would go out with him). Bragging about getting 4 yellowfin on a canyon trip.. talking about eating ice cream sandwiches all day b/c his freezer was so big.

I believe it sank not too long after it found to have major issues with the stringers de-laminating from the hull.

That boat was ugly as fuck too!

[Supermoon]

Arguably, the greatest thread on the Hull Truth. That guy had people sucking him off right and left just to get a boat ride to canyons... He was such a douche, calling out his own crew who missed gaff shots on yellowfins(mostly b/c his crew were inexperienced b/c no one would go out with him). Bragging about getting 4 yellowfin on a canyon trip.. talking about eating ice cream sandwiches all day b/c his freezer was so big.

I believe it sank not too long after it found to have major issues with the stringers de-laminating from the hull.

That boat was ugly as fuck too!

Sounds like an insurance job right there. Find out your super expensive boat is unrepairable, then it sinks?