My Center Console: Gary Caputi’s Pathfinder 2700 Open
By Gary Caputi I recenntly bought a Pathfinder 2700 Open, having been a center-console fan for close to 40 years, since leaving my freshwater bass fishing days behind with a move to the Jersey shore. I’ve worked for fishing and boating magazines for even longer and tested hundreds of boats for familiar titles like Salt […]
My Center Console: Scott and Ash Rinehart’s SeaHunter 33T
By Scott Rinehart My wife (Ash) and I bought our SeaHunter 33T from SeaHunter’s Eddie Leon and Marky Berta in March of 2025. We then sold our 25-foot SeaCraft within a day. We bought the SeaCraft in 2021 as I needed a stress reliever from my career as a mortgage broker. Boating opened the door […]
My Center Console: Front Runner 36 CC, Knot on Call
By John Brownlee Capt. Jason Spell of Port Orange, Florida, runs a 2023 Front Runner 36 CC named Knot on Call for Dr. John Hill, who owns and operates the West Volusia Family and Sports Medicine practice in DeLand. The Front Runner is powered by triple 300 hp Mercury Verados. This team fishes hard out […]
My Center Console: The Famous Paty Beehive
Around Palm Beach County, Florida, few if any boats have attained the legendary status of the Beehive, a boat created when local attorney B.F. Paty Jr.’s son sank the family’s 22-foot AquaSport coming home from the Bahamas. So Paty set out to create a similar, yet better new boat. By Neilson Paty, B.F. Paty Jr.’s […]
My Center Console: John Tracy’s Victory 33
By John Tracy I bought my Victory 33 on my birthday in 1995, and I was fortunate enough to be the first person to see it when it came up for sale. I had recently sold a 224 Mako that I had for several years and was looking for a used 27-foot Contender project boat. […]
My Center Console: Bill Buckland’s 39 Invincible
By John Brownlee Bill Buckland is a well-known figure in the South Florida fishing community. He owns and operates The Fisherman’s Center, one of the top tackle stores in the Palm Beach area and is known for building some of the best custom fishing rods in the business. His personal boat is a 39 Invincible, […]
My Center Console: Ben and Tara Brownlee’s 33 Invincible
By John Brownlee Ben Brownlee captains a 75-foot Ricky Scarborough boat named Game Time, based in Quepos, Costa Rica, so he’s familiar with boats, having grown up driving a wide assortment of his father’s vessels over the years since a very early age. In addition to the Scarborough, the owner also had a 39 Invincible, […]
My Center Console: Mike and Joanne McCorkle’s 37 Freeman
By Mike McCorkle I grew up on a small lake in Iowa, where boating was a way of life. Back then, it meant waterskiing, not fishing. My early attempts at angling involved bullhead and carp from the shoreline with nightcrawlers. Safe to say, it didn’t exactly hook me. That changed after I moved to Florida […]
My Center Console: Mark and Alexandra Maus’ 36 Yellowfin
By John Brownlee For more than 18 years, Captain Mark Maus and his wife Alexandra Maus, along with Captain Dillon Maus, have been competitively sport fishing. Today, as Team Raymarine on their 36 Yellowfin CC powered by triple Honda V8 BF350s, they also use TACO Pro Series GS-390 Outrigger Mounts, 19′ Internal & Collapsible Carbon […]
My Center Console: John Abplanalp’s Chittum Islamorada 21
By John Brownlee John Abplanalp is a diehard fly fisherman who loves chasing striped bass near his home in Connecticut. This can mean fishing the innumerable bays, rocks, and stretches of shoreline along the western shore of New York’s Long Island closer to New York City, but it often entails fishing out of Montauk. That […]