Isn't the Revenge (Sam Jennings' boat) a carbon fibre hull?
Speaking of which, how effectively do prop pockets focus propellor thrust, which would in theory increase manoeuverability?
Congratulations on taking on the stewardship of a beautiful classic. What do you mainly target, by the way? Many have said that unglassed wooden...
My only experience of Rivs is having fished for a few weeks on a 1998, 36 foot model. It seemed a reasonable choice for the more casual...
Very clean looking wake for a 100 footer! :cool:
It depends on the type of fishing you are intending to do. For light tackle billfishing where the fish are fast and incredibly agile and...
When you get into that sort of size a mothership/sportfisher operation becomes very compelling. Big comfortable vessel to live on and a smaller...
Beautiful rebuild, thanks for putting up those photos. Your boat looks amazing and I bet she'd be a really good fish-raiser too.
Good luck when you go! I found this link of the one I fished on, trolling for marlin (yes) just off the high sea cliff of Cabo Girao, Madeira:
Really enjoyed reading this thread and have rewritten this post several times as I worked through my thoughts on this issue. For the dedicated...
Crossed paths with the Vava2 a couple months back. [IMG]
Really enjoyed the photos and hope to see more. I spent quite a bit of time crewing on a friend's sport fishing boat in Phuket some years ago....
Apologies for the long post above. I was looking at the photos of the boats JeffSheu posted, especially the Customs 2 boat and RB-01, as well as...
I realize this post is over two years old and the original poster may well have moved on, but there are bits in there that still are/could be...
I'm quite fascinated by big game fishing in the old days and have read a reasonable number of the classic fishing books (Farrington, Grey,...
I've been told that French fisherman targeting bass by trolling do in fact use outriggers. If you troll for bass it's not difficult to see how...
My total net worth at the moment would not add very much to US$3m so if it happened to me I'd buy/build myself a place to stay in one of my...
