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Palm Beach Inlet Boat Gallery

January 16, 2021 By InTheBite Editor

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     InTheBite’s New Sportfishing Tournament Series        is open for registration. 5 Divisions | Over 90 Events  East Coast | Gulf Coast | International | Hawaii | Florida

 

January 16, 2021—Check out the gallery of some of the finest sportfishing teams returning to Palm Beach inlet. Most of the vessels are competing in the Operation Sailfish tournament. Scroll to the bottom for a new video showcasing the incredible speed of these modern-day machines as they return from the competition. 

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Filed Under: Boats, Builders, Featured Stories, General News, North America, Tournaments Tagged With: boats running, custom boats, Operation Sailfish, tournament fishing

Splash Update: American Custom Yachts New 68

August 2, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

The latest American Custom Yachts 68 is getting her final touches. Look for her to be chasing marlin in the near future!

The latest American Custom Yachts 68 is getting her final touches. Look for her to be chasing marlin in the near future!

American Custom Yachts – story on this boat winning a tournament soon after taking delivery Click Here

Filed Under: Boats, Builders, Featured Stories, General News, News, Splash Reports Tagged With: 60-70, 68-foot, amercian custom yachts, custom boats, Florida

Happy 100th Year Anniversary Rybovich!

May 21, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

InTheBite celebrated with the Rybovich family at their 100th Anniversary party. We’d like to thank Michael Rybovich & Sons Yacht Sales for putting on this great event, it was an honor to be a part of!
Photos by Chris Rabil

 

Filed Under: Featured Stories, General News, News Tagged With: anniversary, boat works, boats, celebration, custom boats, event, fishing, Florida, fort pierce, InTheBite, magazine, michael rybovich sons, offshore, palm beach, party, Rybovich, sportfish, sportfishing, Stuart

InTheBite Splash Report: Ritchie Howell 60′ Convertible – “Galatea”

April 4, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

Builder Ritchie Howell provides a guided walk through of the “Galatea”— a 60′ vessel he built seven years ago. Listed with Michael Rafferty of IYC, the Galatea is a beautiful boat whose story is told by the man who built her.

Filed Under: Dock Talk, Featured Stories, General News, News, Splash Reports Tagged With: 60-foot, billfish, boats for sale, carolinas, convertible, custom boats, Dock Talk, fishing, galatea, InTheBite, iyc, magazine, marlin, michael rafferty, Ritchie Howell, spalsh report, sportfish, sportfishing, Tuna, yachts

InTheBite Dock Talk: Tropic Star Lodge in Pinas Bay, Panama

March 19, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

Panama’s Tropic Star Lodge has been a staple of the sportfishing landscape since 1963. The present is a very interesting time at Tropic Star.

This all access pass provides a look at one of the most unique and historic fishing operations in the world:

Read Tradition and Trajectory at Tropic Star in our latest issue of InTheBite

 

March 2019 Issue – Volume 18, Edition 2

 

Filed Under: Dock Talk, Featured Stories, General News, News Tagged With: Bertram, billfish, Black Marlin, Blue Marlin, boats, custom boats, Dock Talk, dolphin, dorado, fishing destinations, InTheBite, lifestyle, magazine, march issue, Panama, pinas bay, sportfish, sportfishing, tradition, trajectory at tropic star, travel, tropic star lodge, tropical, Video, yachts

Broker Listing: Donnie Caison 49’ Custom Carolina Express “SPARHAWK”

February 27, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

Meet your next fishing machine! The 2010 Donnie Caison 49’ Custom Carolina Express, “SPARHAWK”, is a true cold-molded Custom Carolina built sportfish.  She is a proven fish raiser and tournament champion with a ride and fuel efficiency that are unparalleled for a vessel of her size.  “SPARHAWK” is the recipient of meticulous maintenance, continuous custom upgrades, and an electrical refit in 2018 in excess of $300,000.  If you are in the market for a beautiful, head turning, hard core custom express boat, your search should start and end with “SPARHAWK”.

Below please find a summary of highlights onboard The “SPARKHAWK”:

  • Cold molded custom Carolina construction
  •  Unparalleled ride and fuel efficiency
  •  Mezzanine seating
  •  C 9 CAT power
  •  Zeus pod drives with Joystick control
  • Skyhook dynamic positioning system
  • 2018 extensive refit
  • 8000 series GARMIN fully networked electronics package
  • FLIR night vision
  • EPLEX state of the art electrical system with touch screen breaker panel and ship board monitoring system
  • SAT TV and phone system
  • Custom full anodized aluminum tower with clear ceramic coating
  •  Ice chipper
  •  Water maker
  •  Custom faux teak painted transom and toe rail
  •  Miya Epoch US9 super HD electric teaser reels (NEW 2018)
  •  2018 custom SEA DECK on helm deck
  •  Unprecedented rod storage for over 30 rods out of sight in custom storage lockers
  •  Fresh bottom paint and prop speed 6/18 SEE MORE ON THE 2010 Donnie Caison 49’ Custom Carolina Express, “SPARHAWK” HERE

Filed Under: Featured Stories, General News, News, Splash Reports Tagged With: 49-foot, boat electronics, boats, broker listing, Cat Power, classifieds, custom boats, custom carolina express, donnie casion, exterior, fishing, Florida, Garmin, helm, HMY, interior, InTheBite, jupiter, magazine, new listing, palm beach, sparhark, Splash report, sportfish, sportfishing, tournaments, yachts

Willy Vac – 2019 Latest Model

February 13, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

Owner Bill Wallace shows us the latest model of the Willy Vac— a system that vacuums up standing water in the trouble areas that every boat has.

Filed Under: Dock Talk, Featured Stories, General News, News Tagged With: bilges, bluewater, boat maintenance, boating, cleaning, custom boats, engines, Florida, InTheBite, magazine, marine electronics, new products, palm beach, sportfish, sportfishing, standing water, vaccum, Viking VIP, will vac, yachts

New High-Resolution Charts and Maps From Garmin

February 13, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

Garmin® adds high-resolution relief shading to its premium BlueChart® g3 Vision and LakeVü g3 Ultra cartography

New charts and maps offer unrivaled detail and enhancements

OLATHE, Kan./Feb. 13, 2019/Business Wire – Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN), today announced that it has added high-resolution relief shading to its exclusive BlueChart g3 Vision and LakeVü g3 Ultra cartography products for coastal and inland fishing and boating. High-resolution relief shading brings an entirely new level of detail to the ocean floor and lake bottom, making it easier than ever to find structure, artificial reefs, underwater shelves and more – the kind of detail anglers and divers depend on.

With industry-leading coverage, clarity and detail, Garmin’s new g3 cartography blends the best of both Garmin and Navionics content together, and offers enhancements like built-in Auto Guidance1 technology that searches through relevant charts to create a suggested route based upon the user’s desired depth and overheard clearance. For mariners who want the most feature-rich data available, the premium BlueChart g3 Vision and LakeVü g3 Ultra accessory cards and downloads include everything available with g3, and now for the first time, add high-resolution relief shading that combines color and shadow to give mariners an easy-to-interpret, clearer view of bottom structure than contour lines alone. Garmin’s high-resolution relief shading is available with coverage for U.S. coastal waters – east coast, west coast and Gulf of Mexico – along with more than 150 Garmin-surveyed lakes.

“The recent upgrades we’ve made to our g3 cartography products – more detail, dimension and routing sophistication – is a true testament to our long-standing commitment to continually improving our cartography to give our customers the highest quality and most detailed, accurate charts and maps on the water today,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin worldwide vice president of consumer sales. “We’re excited to offer high-resolution relief shading to our premium BlueChart g3 Vision charts and LakeVü g3 Ultra maps and look forward to continuing to bring even more detail to our customers.”

The new Garmin g3 cartography products brings unrivaled detail and convenience to users with navigational aids, spot soundings, depth contours, tides and currents, and detailed harbors and marinas. The data offers seamless chart presentation with up to 1-foot fishing contours that provide a more accurate depiction of bottom structure for improved fishing charts and enhanced detail in canals, marinas and port plans. Raster cartography that gives the chartplotter paper-chart like views of NOAA nautical charts, has also been added to the new g3 cartography product line and is available as a free downloadable feature via the Garmin ActiveCaptain® app.

In addition to high-resolution relief shading, BlueChart g3 Vision also includes high-resolution satellite imagery that provides the user with a realistic view of their surroundings. Unique 3-D views, including MarinerEye and FishEye, provide additional perspective both above and below the water line, and aerial photography shows exceptional detail of many ports, harbors and marinas, which is especially useful when entering unfamiliar ports. For inland customers, LakeVü g3 Ultra includes maps of more than 17,000 lakes with up to 1-foot contours. Of those, over 150 are Garmin Elite surveyed lakes with high-resolution satellite imagery, multi-beam sonar views shore-to-shore, side scan photos and photos of notable spots above the water too.

The new BlueChart g3 Vision and LakeVü g3 Ultra accessory cards and downloads vary in price from $249.99 to $349.99 and will be available with high-resolution relief shading in Q2 2019. At this time, high-resolution relief shading and raster charts are only available for the U.S. Availability for other regions is expected in Q4 2019. To learn more, visit garmin.com/maps.

Garmin is the world’s leading marine electronics manufacturer2 and was recently named Manufacturer of the Year for the fourth consecutive year by the NMEA, an honor given to the most recognized marine electronics company for support of products in the field. Garmin’s portfolio includes some of the industry’s most sophisticated chartplotters and touchscreen multifunction displays, sonar technology, high-definition radar, autopilots, high-resolution mapping, sailing instrumentation, audio, entertainment and other products and services that are known for innovation, reliability, and ease-of-use. Other Garmin marine brands include FUSION Entertainment, Navionics, a premier supplier of electronic charts, and EmpirBus.

For decades, Garmin has pioneered new GPS navigation and wireless devices and applications that are designed for people who live an active lifestyle. Garmin serves five primary markets, including automotive, aviation, fitness, marine, and outdoor recreation. For more information, visit Garmin’s virtual pressroom at garmin.com/newsroom, contact the Media Relations department at 913-397-8200, or follow us at facebook.com/garmin, twitter.com/garmin, instagram.com/garmin or youtube.com/garmin.

Filed Under: Featured Stories, General News, News, Press Releases Tagged With: BlueChart g3 Vision, boat electronics, custom boats, Garmin, high resolution, imagery, InTheBite, LakeVü g3 Ultra, magazine, maps, marine, new charts, new products, outdoors recreation, relief shading, satellite, sportfish, sportfishing, yachts

The Young Guns of Sportfishing: Chris Kubik

December 18, 2018 By InTheBite Editor

By Elliott Stark

Although you have to be pretty dedicated to fishing to buy and run a bluewater charter boat, there are some people whose desire to make a sportfishing career happen goes the extra mile. Captain Chris Kubik is one of those people. Having grown up in Atlanta, Kubik travelled to the Outer Banks in the summers as a child. When he was 16, he saved up enough to charter a boat. After catching a white marlin, he was hooked.

Growing up Kubik would read anything about fishing he could get his hands on – magazines, fishing reports, you name it. “I read a story about a guy who wanted to fish and headed to the dock to start handing out ice until he got a job fishing…So that’s what I did,” Kubik recalls.

“I loaded up my Honda Accord and headed to Oregon Inlet. I drove overnight from Atlanta, it took about nine hours. I got there early and slept in my car for an hour and I started handing out ice. I got a job on an inshore boat about three weeks later and started picking up freelance offshore trips from there,” he says.

Kubik rented a place to sleep while waiting for his fishing dreams to materialize. Does this sound like an awesome thing to do? “It definitely was not awesome. It was terrible. I rented a piece of crap trailer – it was the most God-awful place you could imagine. It was rented by the week, if that tells you anything. There was a house on some land with a bunch of trailers on the property. It was a bunch of crackheads and me. I was afraid to unload my stuff out of my car because they might have stolen it,” Kubik says.

Kubik worked on the inshore boat over the summer and soon made friends with a mate who had an extra room where he stayed. His living conditions improved and Kubik has never looked back. “Fin Gaddy had an opening,” Chris recalls. An owner/operator, Gaddy runs the Qualifier, a 54-foot Mann, out of Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. “I knew the mate who was leaving and Fin let me freelance for a couple of days. I’m not sure why he hired me because to be honest at the time I was not very good… I guess he thought he could teach me and he did.”

Captain Chris Kubik – Point Runner, 60-foot Guthrie

Kubik would fish with Gaddy for ten years. Fin provides a bit of perspective on what makes Kubik such a force on the water. “He just has a competitive spirit about him. When I first met him, he’d only fished a little bit offshore. He was such a genuinely nice and sincere person that it almost made me uncomfortable,” Gaddy says with a bit of a laugh. Soon after hiring Kubik, Gaddy and the Qualifier headed to Isla Mujeres, Mexico. “He’d never caught a sailfish. After two days he’d caught 58. It was sort of a trial by fire. Chris got to learn in the right places. It was his dream to come here and fish and he made it happen.”

“Fin taught me everything I know about marlin fishing – teasers, dredges, maneuvering on fish. Attention to detail was the biggest thing – the importance of keeping everything perfect… knots, connections, everything. He is very meticulous in that regard,” Kubik recalls. “If he wanted to teach me to rig something on our day off, he would pull out five or six mackerel and show me how to do it. A lot of guys won’t do that because they don’t want to waste the bait.”

“When I left the Qualifier, I started mating on the Point Runner. I would run it when Capt. Danny Wadsworth (owner/operator) needed a day off. I worked there for three years and bought it last year,” says Kubik. The Point Runner is a 60-foot Guthrie powered by c12.9 Cats. Kubik’s operation is based out of the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. Kubik follows in one of sportfishing’s greatest traditions – the North Carolina owner/operator charterman.

When asked about the lessons he has learned along the way, Kubik provides some wise perspective. “Spend time learning before you think about moving up,” he says. Advice to young guys breaking into the industry? “Don’t feel like you deserve anything… because you don’t. These days it seems like there is a lot of entitlement. All the young kids want to be paid to ride out. Don’t be afraid to start on the bottom and work your way up. If you work hard and are motivated, you’ll succeed in fishing. If you look around at tournaments, most guys pull the same thing. But if you pay attention to detail, you can stand out.”

You can find Captain Chris Kubik and the Point Runner available for charter out of Oregon Inlet most of the year. In the winter time, Kubik runs a private boat – the Sea Hag, a 61-foot Blackwell – in Florida and Isla Mujeres. If you’d like to book a trip with Captain Chris Kubik, send him a note at Chris@pointrunner.com

or visit www.pointrunner.com.

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Filed Under: Featured Stories, General News, News Tagged With: boats, Charter Fishing, custom boats, fishing center, Florida, guthrie yachts, InTheBite, Isla Mujeres, magazine, Mates, north carolina, Oregon Inlet, Point Runner, sea hag, sportfishing, tournaments, Tuna, yellowfin, young capatains, young guns of sportfishing

November Sportfish Sales

December 12, 2018 By InTheBite Editor

Here are some boats of interest sold this November. Congratulations to both the buyers and sellers.

Note: Final selling prices are not displayed.

SLO-FIGHT

2011 42’7” Viking

Engines: Cummins QSC 8.3 Zeus

Hours: 633

List Price: $695,000

Sold Date: 11/9/2018

OUTLAW

2013 50’ Viking

Engines: MAN

Hours:

List Price: $1,395,000

Sold Date: 11/15/2018

Sold By: HMY Yacht Sales

JOLLY ROGER

2000 55’ Viking

Engines: MAN 2842LE

Hours: n/a

List Price: $539,000

Sold Date: 11/27/2018

Sold By: HMY Yachts

Filed Under: Featured Stories, General News, News, Splash Reports Tagged With: boat brokers, boat sales, Captain, company, cummins engines, custom boats, Florida, HMY Yacht Sales, InTheBite, magazine, man engines, november, sportfish, Viking, Viking Yachts

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