If I built a boat,

[hubris 1]

I think about it everyday. My mind is so busy trying to sort through all the crap that goes in my brain.......I wake up, I already have a question for myself.
I love the 37 merritt, 36 cubavich, 36 rybovich..........but I really dont want the constant work and maintenance a boat like that requires. Plus, lets admit it.........50 year old technology. I want to fish in North Carolina, not Costa Rica. It aint flat every day. I also believe the answer isnt just.....go bigger! That seems to be the answer for alot of guys. "Your boat isnt big enough"
Why doesnt anyone except Ocean offer a day boat design? Not everyone wants an express.........
See, maybe Im different. I dont think the key to happiness is a bigger boat. I want to revisit youth. I want the old ideas, with new technology. Am I the only one?

Simply put, Why is there no market or builder for a 38 ft day boat? With a beam thats not 10'6". Im starting to get pissed off.

[Capt.Troy Crane]

Hubris,
that's why I bought a 1973 35 Bertram and refurbed it to my liking. It's a tank that will take what you give it and hauls *** with the QSB 380 Cummins under the hood while being easy on the fuel.

But I feel your pain, with all of the "bigger" boats on the market you would think there would be a market for the mid size sport fisher. I guess the manufactures think that you are either really rich or really poor !

Troy

[donald/tri-again]

I guess the manufactures think that you are either really rich or really poor !

Troy[/QUOTE]
aint that true.... no middle class left either super rich or working stiff poor or welfare. thats what change has done

[Capt.Troy Crane]

Yep,
still waiting on my check Donald ha ha.

I take pride in knowing that my old boat was once a well sought after ride ! and I enjoy taking the rich folks discards and making them new again !

Troy

[TunaTeaser1]

hubris,
Sonny Briggs will do it!

[scattered_grass]

hubris,
Sonny Briggs will do it!

aside from Spencer, Bayliss and Howell, anybody else would cream in their jeans if someone would contract a 38 footer...

[seapower]

Hate to spoil it for ya, but you're not the only one that think's that way. Everything I've got is "old", well according to some. Boat's are a piece of equipment that's made to be functional, that's it. All the stuff that get's added on past the basic's make them dis-functional. Boat's are made to be owned by the guy's running them, not the other way around. I have been quietly looking for a bigger boat for the last little bit. Now mind you a bigger boat to me is around 35 foot and yes I am looking at only "old" boat's. My commercial day's taught me that simple is good. I'm with you on this one. Frank

[N2theBlue]

Caison in Wilmington built one almost exactly like that. I think there were some build pics posted here, lemme see what search finds

[donald/tri-again]

hey troy what 's your cruise and fuel burn # s ? cato breezed thru this year was only with us a couple weeks. poor sumabitch made every wrong turn this year.
do you know what ever happened to the 35 bert "knockdown" that sunk right off the beach on his way from rudee to oi last year , did they ever raise her ?

[Agitated88]

you build it, i will come fishing with ya...