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Valhallas in Key West

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The team on the Valhalla 46 Trust Fun shows their spirit.

Valhalla Boatworks, April 13, 2022—The eighth annual Viking Key West Challenge (VKWC) was a smashing success, with 50 boats and more than 500 people attending the three-day event. “The Viking Key West Challenge is an amazing event that just keeps getting bigger and better, with more boats and more people participating every year,” says Viking President and CEO Pat Healey. “It’s now the largest tournament on the island. Key West is really the perfect location where everyone can thoroughly enjoy the boating and fishing lifestyle that we all love.” Valhalla Boatworks has become an important part of the festivities as more owners are discovering the great family fun and fishing camaraderie of the VKWC. Trust Fun features triple Mercury 600s, a custom Palm Beach Towers gap tower and a host of accessories for live bait fishing.

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Release Boatworks’ First 43′ Gameboat

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The 43’ Release Boatworks Gameboat is for the boat owner who values compact maneuverability paired with a large cockpit and spacious sleeping accommodations. This family-friendly battlewagon combines Release Boatworks’ classically engineered seaworthy hull with lofty accommodations below for overnight trips, as well as a highly fishable cockpit and clean wake for chasing pelagics offshore.

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A Classic 49-Year-Old Ribside Whaler is Given New Life

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the new boat after the refit

By Captain Stephen Rhodes

Having myself owned a classic 13-foot Boston Whaler as a teenager, since becoming a father it has been my dream to restore a Whaler for my own sons as they enter their teenage years. Our offshore boat is a custom 35 Henriques Express, Legacy. Like many other offshore fishermen, I wanted an inshore boat for flats fishing, tubing, water skiing and other adventures that are not feasible on a twin diesel sportfisherman. Beyond the fishing and boating applications, I knew from experience the many lessons that restoring a boat can impart to the boys.

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On the Waves of Change

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By Captain Kevin Deerman

Two things constantly changing our industry are technology and innovation. Fishing will always be fishing, but with all of the advancements there are many more crews traveling farther, faster and more comfortably and easily than ever before.

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Ready for the Worst: Boating Accidents and Beyond

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boating accidents can happen to anyone

Photo: Richard Gibson

By Winslow Taylor

If you are reading this and are on social media, I’d bet a full tank of fuel that you follow The Qualified Captain. I don’t know about you, but I had no idea so many trucks sank at the boat ramp or how many boating accidents occurred, and that is coming from someone (me) who represents injured individuals in boating and maritime accidents.

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Advanced Boat Building

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Photo: Chris Rabil

By Christopher Swanhart

The construction of marine vessels has long relied on multiple kinds of materials. Starting with wood, other techniques developed and continue to evolve including steel, aluminum, fiberglass, high tech foam cores, exotics like carbon fiber, and…wood. The sportfishing world employs many of these for different reasons. This discussion is centric to higher performance planing hulls, so we’ll examine wood and various composites, metal doesn’t make sense for this segment. Like they say, there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

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2021-22 Sportfish Build Report: Scarborough Boatworks

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Check it out! Enjoy our annual build report showcase of the newest projects from the industry’s leading boat builders. Scarborough Boatworks is the final builder of 22 boat builders featured. Check out the rest of the builders below!

Sponsored by Riggs Yacht Sales.

Amid the age of immediate gratification fostered through blistered fingertips navigating smartphone apps, self-checkouts and next-day deliveries, some things simply cannot be rushed. From master shipwrights working in massive facilities to those covered in dust emerging from makeshift sheds, the expertly crafted sportfish yacht is an amazing pedigree. What follows is a selection of the newest projects from the industry’s leading boat builders.

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2021-22 Sportfish Build Report: Tribute Boats

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Check it out! Enjoy our annual build report showcase of the newest projects from the industry’s leading boat builders. Tribute Boats is the twenty-first of 22 boat builders featured. Stay tuned!

Sponsored by Riggs Yacht Sales.

Amid the age of immediate gratification fostered through blistered fingertips navigating smartphone apps, self-checkouts and next-day deliveries, some things simply cannot be rushed. From master shipwrights working in massive facilities to those covered in dust emerging from makeshift sheds, the expertly crafted sportfish yacht is an amazing pedigree. What follows is a selection of the newest projects from the industry’s leading boat builders.

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71 Garlington Miss Behavin: An Inside Look ▶️

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Owner David Finkelstein takes us on a tour of his new 71′ Garlington Miss Behavin. Ask anyone who has taken delivery of a new sportfishing boat similar to the 71-foot Garlington Miss Behavin and it’s not uncommon for little nuances to surface during the initial “shakedown” period. For Miss Behavin, the shakedown was a 1,900-mile journey from builder Garlington Landeweer’s factory in Stuart, Florida to Los Sueños Marina in Costa Rica.

 

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How Aesthetics Will Save the American Sportfishing Industry

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By Patrick Knowles 

Imagine a time of consistent and identifiable customers who kept your order books, and the shipyards, filled to maximum capacity. An industry where business flows in as steadily as the tides. This was the state of the U.S. marine industry three decades ago upon my entry as an American yacht designer. The client base was well-grounded, stable and secure.

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