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John Brownlee

bob lico wrote: morons whom have spent there life in there cute Columbia sport ware chasing marlin in ideal water condition a modern day Marie antionette .

Bob, you need to cut down on the caffeine.

John Brownlee

Personally, I thought the 37 bertram should be on there, since I own one of course.

John Brownlee

It seems like the guys who voted were swayed by one of several criteria; either boats were worthy of mention because they had become famous through great accomplishments on the fishing grounds (Merritt, G&S, etc.), or they were included because they were an original design (Whaler Nauset, Aquasport ...

John Brownlee

I do like that the Seacraft 20 you used for the picture (Stancyzk's), is a boat that I personally rebuilt and restored during my time at Islamarine. A lot of work went into that hull, and sweat, and blood... I didn't know you worked at IslaMarine. Tom has my Yellowfin bay boat there right now doing...

John Brownlee

JP Dalik wrote:340 Luhrs? Yikes

JP: I agree, but votes are votes.

John Brownlee

Several years ago Marlin Magazine put the 31 in the top ten of all sport fishing boats. There was no Sea Craft in that list I can asssure you of that. I hear you, but Marlin is a totally offshore focused magazine, we cover everything. Marlin covers no center consoles or outboard powered boats at all.

John Brownlee

The original OY 48SS maybe, but that's even a strech. An outboard Catameran? Forget it! And what about Sonny Hines' Hines/Farley? Not even on the list?? You're right about the Hines/Farley, maybe the nicest boat ever. A lot of readers are lighting us up for leaving out the 44 Garlington too, anothe...

John Brownlee

I was surprised so many of our guys voted the 20 SeaCraft so highly too, but you have to remember that it was a hugely influential boat, and a lot more people could afford them than 31 Bertrams.

John Brownlee

Hi guys, At the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show, a group of us got into an after dinner conversation about the best boats in history. It was pretty interesting and a vigorous debate, and it inspired me to poll our staff and a large group of our contributors to get their thoughts on the subject. We pulled a...

John Brownlee

It was definitely a "Holy Shit!" moment.

John Brownlee

Pete, I have been keeping up with your posts here and I feel for you, you've had perhaps the worst experience with replacement that I've heard of. I sincerely hope they eventually sort it out for you. Like everything else, when you start talking about getting a joint replaced, you find out that a wh...

John Brownlee

Tom: I know it's true. I'm ahead of schedule on rehab, but some days are better than others. Yesterday's session kicked my ass so it was back on full doses of pain meds last night. But I feel stronger every day. Ironically, that's another thing Jose advised me on. He had both hips replaced four or f...

John Brownlee

Mark,

May had shipped before the accident occurred. We will likely do something in the June magazine, but we've primarily covered things related to it on our website:

http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/blogs ... ewell-jose

JB

John Brownlee

Tom, The knee is getting better fast. Pain is subsiding and I'm weaning myself off painkillers. Rehab is a bitch, but I know it's for my own good! At Jose's service, Capt. Steve Huff had a great line about Jose. He said, "Just seeing him walking down the dock toward you was always enough to lift you...

John Brownlee

I attended his memorial service Sunday at The IGFA. It looked like close to 1,000 people were there. It was a great service, lots of tears as well as lots of funny stories and remembrances of good times gone by. He touched a lot of people.

John Brownlee

Hey Guys, Forgive me for taking so long to respond, I've been out of the country and away from the Internet for awhile. I just saw this today. Thanks for the kind words, it was a lot of fun and a great time to reunite with many friends I hadn't seen in a long time. I still want to organize a Bertram...

John Brownlee

I would recommend Capt. Chris Trosset, son of legendary Capt. RT Trosset:

http://www.christrosset.com

305-747-4719

John Brownlee

True, they are harder to stow. Mine lives in my bow pulpit. But they do work better in grass than danforths in my experience.

John Brownlee

I'll be the lone dissenter. I use a 33-pound Bruce anchor on my 37 and have had excellent results with it.

John Brownlee

It's at Marsh Harbour Marina: http://www.jibroom.com/

John Brownlee

A friend passed along information about this B31 that's for sale in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, in the Bahamas. The owner just passed away and his wife wants to sell it. The boat was repowered from gas to diesel with Volvos (model unspecified) around 1996/97 in Miami. It is apparently in good running shap...

John Brownlee

Peter:

This guy makes great aftermarket wells and pump boxes. I have two on my 37 and they work flawlessly. You can drill your own water supplies and drains so you can make a custom installation that works no matter where you need to place it in the boat.

http://www.offshorebaitsolutions.com/

JB

John Brownlee

A boat like the Luhrs will run great with outboards in calm water. The problems come when it gets rough and you have to push that much mass up the back of a steep wave. The outboards simply don't have enough prop surface and they tend to slip, badly in some cases. It's bad enough with some inboard p...

John Brownlee

This one's pretty good:

http://www.riverhouserestaurant.com/

John Brownlee

Could be Walter, it sure is confusing. I do think creating ACLs for dolphin, wahoo and cobia is a bad idea, and I also think catch shares for charter boats is a bad idea. But I also think the government has made a mess of fishery management. It's hard to imagine that anyone thinks the current system...

John Brownlee

Doug, I think they should reduce the overall swordfish quota if we can't catch it. Leave them in the water. The idea that these fish are somehow "wasted" if someone doesn't harvest them is nuts, but that's what's happening, and the eastern Atlantic fleets can't wait to suck up our quota. On the catc...

John Brownlee

Another perspective, without the hysteria. JB Opinion Another Foolish Move By Congress By Peter Roff Published March 01, 2011 FoxNews.com A new Government Accountability Office details billions in potential cuts Congress can make to the budget just by streamlining the federal government. The 345-pag...

John Brownlee

Great shots! Headed down there myself in a couple of weeks.

John Brownlee

Tom is right, that's a Warsaw grouper, not a Goliath (formerly known as jewfish). Pretty nice one too. A rare catch and a fish that's considered threatened.

John Brownlee

So the Florida Keys Commercial Fishermen are going to show up at the meeting and argue against catch shares, even though many of them benefit from two of the most successful catch shares programs in existence: spiny lobster and stone crabs. Those fisheries have fared very well under a catch shares p...

John Brownlee

Wayne: I've been wanting to redo my rub rail too, and Alex and his group have given me a great price on a new one, but it's a major undertaking and expensive. My mechanic was working on the boat recently and I told him I was thinking about replacing the rail. He looked at me like I was crazy and sai...

John Brownlee

Is overfishing ended? Top US scientist says yes (AP) â€“ Jan 8, 2011 BOSTON (AP) For the first time in at least a century, U.S. fishermen won't take too much of any species from the sea, one of the nation's top fishery scientists says. The projected end of overfishing comes during a turbulent fishin...

John Brownlee

[The march organizers refused to let Eric Schwaab speak, they paid for the march and told him to take a hike.]

Probably for the best, he might have confused them with facts.

John Brownlee

Ed: Now we're taking money from Pew AND getting paid?! Somebody's been holding out on me, I haven't seen a dime yet! But seriously, if you do happen to come across a volunteer board position that pays $80 grand, let me know, will you? I could use the cash. Hey Patrick, how much dough did you walk aw...

John Brownlee

Evil, fascist AND genocidal? That's quite a paranoia trifecta. JP, you really should cut down on the caffeine.

John Brownlee

I don't understand why you guys are so surprised about this, it's routine. In any fatal accident situation, be it a car wreck, airplane crash, or even a boating accident, the authorities always investigate to determine the cause of the accident. It's not necessarily about assigning blame as much as ...

John Brownlee

Brewster, you make a great point. We have more in common than we ever admit, recs and commercials. On the overall discussion, you must admit that there is no such thing as unlimited entry and hasn't been for some time. In virtually every commercial fishery (remember that the recent catch shares docu...

John Brownlee

We're lemmings because we don't drink the RFA Kool-Aid? Give me a break. As I said before, catch shares have been in use for decades, and I never heard the RFA whining about them before now. You guys are way paranoid about this issue and seem to lack faith in the free market system. The enviro group...

John Brownlee

Hey, I know everyone is nervous about these things, me included. But the letter Bruce posted is a response to a request from them (NOAA) for input. The alternative would have been to not respond and sit on the sidelines while these decisions were made without recreational input. The fact is, catch s...

John Brownlee

JP:

There is NO money trail, no matter what you've been told.

JB

John Brownlee

Read it closely, and you'll see that this is not a letter of support, it is a letter expressing concern over crucial allocation issues that were excluded from the original draft document. The organizations listed at the bottom of the letter were ultimately successful in getting those concerns addres...

John Brownlee

JP: I'm on the board of directors of The Billfish Foundation and served as chairman the last couple of years. I can't comment on the IGFA, but your comments about TBF are totally wrong. TBF has never taken a penny from Pew, has never signed a letter of agreement with them on catch shares, and as a m...

John Brownlee

Mike:

Backing into a nasty inlet is one recommended way to do it, and much safer. The worst that will happen to you is you'll take one over the bow which is no big deal in most cases.

JB

John Brownlee

We went out Jupiter inlet headed for the Bahamas Friday about an hour after this happened. We had no clue it had occurred until we got back on Monday, although there were still a few Coast Guard boats around. It was breaking about six feet all the way across, the swell from Earl. It's obviously easi...

John Brownlee

I know Awlgrip and Imron are the standards, but I will second the recommendation for Perfection from Interlux. I'm having my cockpit painted as we speak, and the Perfection is super-easy to work with, and looks great.

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Hey Bill:

That would be great, give us a shout and let's get together.

JB

John Brownlee

To you guys who painted your old rails; did you remove the stainless trim pieces first? Mine aren't ever coming off until I replace the thing because every time I try to back out a screw it breaks off. Only way I can see to paint the aluminum rail beneath the stainless is to tape off the stainless, ...

John Brownlee

I'll second Patrick's words of caution, and also the recommendation of Steve Dodge's Crusing Guide to Abaco. It contains specific waypoints to get you around, and if you follow if closely, you'll be fine. http://www.wspress.com/detail-cga.htm Be sure to visit Man-O-War Cay while you're there, a dry ...

John Brownlee

Hueso:

Many thanks! I shoot Nikon D300s. I was a late convert to digital (I have about 10,000 transparencies still in my office closet), but it's amazing technology. We don't even accept slides at the magazine anymore. It's amazing how the world changes.

JB

John Brownlee

Thanks Patrick!

Poppy says "hello" right back at ya. And a quick note on the single 31 Bahia Mar: That's the personal boat of the owners, Mike and Terri Andrews.

JB

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