Bad Kitty at the Big Rock.

[gofish34]

Otseg graciously gave me the day off Friday so i could go fish The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tourney with a friend on his 50' Carolina Custom Sportfish - Miss Tammy. We didn't catch a winner but his mate did have a fishing license! When i got back Friday night - I hadn't had enough of the crystal coast yet so i had to go back Saturday. I'm (helping my Dad) in the process of building a 34' center console for our use - its got about 30 more to days to finish so i was able to grab the 22' Catamaran from the office to take out Saturday. I have ran many hours on the Pamlico River in this boat but we haven't gone out of Beaufort Inlet yet. Although it wasn't real snotty going out of there Saturday - it was typical for that inlet with 2-3' chop with occasional 4' roller coming in. I was totally amazed on how the boat ran and handled. To be honest i had never been in a catamaran in the ocean - it was unbelievably smooth. To be able to sit on the leaning post and drive in 3' chop @ 42 - 45 mph and not being beat to death is something you don't get to experience too often. My last boat i sold in order to build the 34' was 28' True World (Master Marine) center console with twin 225 Optimax - great boat - still miss it - but riding in 3 - 4 @ 40-45 you would get beat and be about 33 GPH - Saturday i was burning 12 GPH @ 40 - Now I have big decisions to make this fall when king fishing, with the group i normally fish with - they all fish really nice 28 - 34' center console production boats which I will have my custom that i can fish with them, but I'll be burning 25 GPH compared to 12 GPH and I'll probably be able to pass them if i take the catamaran. Oh well i still got a while to decide before cooler weather brings the big king bite.
I have decided I'll be making more trips to Atlantic Beach and few other areas in the coming weeks - if you would like to get a test ride on the catamaran just let us know and we will do our best to make that happen and as always we can always go out on the Pamlico any day - we gotta have excuses to get out of the office some.

[otseg]

I had a crew replacing my roof at home and we ran over timewise the week of the tournament so that I could not go.

My operations manager did take the cat out the last day of the tournament and while we could not take pictures ourselves, he said a photo helicopter folowed him for 10 minutes and NC Boat Photos has posted 4 photos on their web site. I tell you its a good thing to go out and be seen with the woman you're supposed to because your going to find yourself on the internet sooner than later.

http://ncboatphotos.com/albums.php?s...ient=&plboxId=

http://ncboatphotos.com/albums.php?albumId=115342

[otseg]

I took the cat to Newport R.I. for a month. It has been used as a photo boat from Maine (Shipyard Cup) to New York and back to Newport ( Newport Bucket and Newport Boat Show). The photographer is likely to be our first or second sale. His wife tells me she uses hypnosis to make him sleep as he lies awake at night thinking about the boat.

Its a long haul from N.C. to pick it up this week but It gets a T-top and the rest of the electronics installed upon its return. It was, after all, built as a fishing boat, time to see if it can.

[WAHOONBOX]

IF YOU EVER FEEL LIKE CREATING AN OCTOBER BLOODBATH ON THIS RIG TO SHOW SHE CAN HANDLE THE SLAUGHTER...BRING HER TO MHC


I HAVE THE AE SNIPER...THE POLES AND THE HOOKS..........

[otseg]

The Catamaran has been collecting dust unfortunately, because I had a couple paying jobs that dominated all my time. We built a 53' twin diesel water jet patrol boat that I have to knock the end of the building out to remove at the end of the month. The plus is that I get a needed 24' wide door

The T top is roughed out and the plan was to build lenticular carbon fiber legs to support it. All the electronics are in boxes ready for installation. Of course, by the time I get done its going to be freezing again.