by The Captain | Jan 3, 2021 | Captain's ships, Project boats
Lack of experience or budget didn’t slow the Palumbo brothers down. After three years, their Invader is finally finished and the boys are already ankle-deep in fish blood and cray legs. How’s life on the WA coast? We’re only 5km from the coast and it’s a...
by The Captain | Jan 3, 2021 | Captain's ships
Will Reynolds is only 15, but the lucky bugger already rocks his father’s Regulator 34SS. Meanwhile, his developer dad is co-owner of a Hatteras 68. This father-and-son team are running dream machines and The Captain has been given the green light to take both for a...
by The Captain | Jan 2, 2021 | Captain's ships
The Captain plunges bravely into the fibreglass dust storm to get the drum on this superbly reconfigured Bertram 25. Most blokes toil away on tinnies and 15ft CrapCrafts before laying tools on their first big project, but — amazingly — this beaut Berty...
by The Captain | Sep 26, 2020 | Captain's ships
The Captain heads to Mackay, North Queensland, to take a ride in Ryan Turner’s seriously pimped-out brand new Svensson NQ Fisher Maxi 7500. When The Captain stumbles up to the Mackay boat ramp at 5am, Ryan Turner is showing less enthusiasm than you’d expect from...
by The Captain | Sep 20, 2020 | Captain's ships
With the best yellowfin tuna bite off the NSW east coast since The Captain could legally drink proof rum, we tee up a session with rock-steady Rod Findlay aboard his smooth new Grady-White Seafarer 228. When it comes to yellowfin tuna bites off...
by The Captain | Aug 27, 2020 | Captain's ships
One of our favourite pocket rockets, the Stabicraft 1410 has been beefed up. It’s now called the 1450, and the boys from Invercargill reckon it’s the most well-appointed sub-5m boat in its class. The new version is longer, wider and more solid than the previous model....
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