What's your boat?

I never really see any one's boats here. I like to see pictures of every subject...for I learn from the content to be a better traveler in Baja.

Anyone like to share their boat pics and maybe some good insider's info on why you have that particular boat/setup...would be great.

I plan to get a something next year.....and dont have a clue. I am sure there are others here...in the "same boat" :-)

My Gregory is a duplication of "The baja Catch". Yes....works well for hard to get places. The roll wheels on the back are very helpful. Oh...is the set up good as the Baja Catch was? Yes. Yes. Yes. I just added a umbrella for shade.





[Edited on 10-30-2010 by mcfez]

mcfez, Looks like you've got a good one

no boat but I have a little dingy and I can't post the pic here

We started cartopping with a 12' Duroboat. I don't like pulling a trailer if I can help it, and I think a 14 would be too much to lift alone. We have been out far enough for tuna and dorado, but it is better for inside. When I bought a house in Baja, I also bought a trailer, and now launch the boat with a quad. The boat stays in Baja.





[Edited on 10-30-2010 by msteve1014]

This year I got a new boat so we can all get out to the tuna, so of course there are none, YET.

Just traded my panga for this one,

...we upgraded too, but I think we're having more fun:

After Carlos Fiesta took the "Vaka Viti" from San Pedro down to Cabo and then back up to the Colorado River by himself...he was ready to sell it. Seeing the value in the boat, Juan y Juan went into partnership with Carlos. We brought it back up to Long Beach where the old, 40 hp Yamaha was taken off (yes, over 2,500 miles cruising both sides of the Baja with it!), replaced it with a couple of Honda's and a great seat that has a cooler below. Brought it back to San Somewhere, had a local welder make a very cool launching/towing set-up for the surf and haven't looked back. A great fishing platform that is totally Baja proven for sure! Originally from Fiji, the Vaka Viti is right at home and loves to be pulled by the "Baja Ferrari" (Suzuki Samurai)...a towing match made in Heaven!







[Edited on 10-31-2010 by Juan del Rio]

The fishin boat vs a tree in the back yard, I wish it would have got the crestliner with the Honda BF40, the noisy SeaDoo is at my son's house, the Reinell was sold a few years ago (sweet ride). JH

McFez, here are some boat pictures:

My Boat "Plan B":




Their Boat "Stay Away":




San Juanico "No Float Boat":

Sold my 18' Westcoast'r a couple of years ago to build my new Baja Casa ( completed thank you very much) and now we just play around on these. This is a transition photo, two were for sale and two were just purchased.

I would like to get another tin boat for Baja though, maybe next year. My wife wants one with a console, I said, OK!



[Edited on 10-31-2010 by BajaWarrior]

Here's last winter in my Yarcraft tiller on the beach at Pt. Conception. Fun times on those beaches!!
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Above is another Yarcraft I use for the wheat fields in Saskatchewan, Canada.

[Edited on 10-31-2010 by Pompano]

KLAMATH 15'

KLAMATH + PHOTO

DAng - Nomads gets me every time . . .here's the pic.

here is mine

Rob, That's some setup you have there! I had a 15' Klamath too. My 1st Baja boat.


Edit: also from WA

[Edited on 11-1-2010 by Russ]

Also Had a 15' High Laker. Really high free board but not very seaworthy. It did catch a lot of salmon.



Then there was my 1st 8' Livingston. Even had a cabin Great "little" mooching boat if the current wasn't too strong.


[Edited on 11-1-2010 by Russ]

TILT AND SURF/LOADING BOAT

re TILT CONTROL AND SURF When we launch the boat here at the ranch, Pacific surf runs from 3-4ft on a normal day to 6+ft (anything more than that is a holiday).

The tilt-control "locks" the engine in a given position and when you hit the bottom between waves, that impact is transferred directly through the drive shaft and transom. One of these days something is going to give - and with my luck we will be staring directly at some monster tsunami about 400m from the beach . . . the fishermen here know what works - a panga with a free-swinging engine that just bounces when it hits the bottom.

HOW WE LOAD the boat travels on teflon-lined beams. To launch you just push the boat backwards until it "falls" down the incline, usually straight into the water on the Cortez side, or at the edge on the Pacific. To load, attach winch cable to transom, wet teflon and push button (at top of slope, lifting the bow eases the strain on the transom.

Quote:

Originally posted by Russ Then there was my 1st 8' Livingston. Even had a cabin Great "little" mooching boat if the current wasn't too strong. [img] [Edited on 11-1-2010 by Russ]

mooching with downriggers?

[Edited on 11-1-2010 by durrelllrobert]

Dizzyspots rig

Dizzyspots asked me to post this pic for him after I redid the picture to 44 k 4 him.

Good looking boat there. I like the yellow paint job

[Edited on 11-1-2010 by mcfez]

Here is mine. It's lightweight, easy to transport, you can fish from it, you can cruise around in it, and in a pinch you can even surf with it.

18' Baja Bayrunner named OSO DE ORO, works great in choppy water.

Need a sailboat in here too.

Getting bottom painted

....AND, even sip on a beer while surfing with it!!

This is my third Baja boat. First was a 15' Gregor with an Evinrude 35. Second was a 19' Bayrunner Baja with a Nissan 70. Now this 21' Bayrunner Baja with a Johnson 115. I thought it was my ultimate Baja boat. Now I'm reconsidering because I hate getting beat up when the wind and swell come up. And I've watched 4Baja head out to the island for big yellows way too many times when I didn't want to make the run because I knew it would be a rough run back. Now I'm thinking a 20' fiberglass center console (something with a deep v, maybe an old Mako) with a 4-stroke.

23' WA with 225 Yamaha 4 stroke
130 gal fuel tank
30 gal bait tank

Reason's for purchase:
Most of my fishing is in So Cal and I usually weekend onboard so I went with the cuddy cabin plus the locking cabin let's me secure all my equipment if I go out for dinner. I chose the Striper because it had sufficient fuel capacity to give the boat more range than I have. and a decent size bait tank. I limited myself to the 23' as it is easy to tow down Mx 1. ( 3 trips to La Paz, 1 to Mag Bay, 2 to Loreto and several to BoLA) but is still large enough to fish anywhere I want (with a decent ramp or packed sand)

I absolutely love my Yamaha outboard. I have had I/O's but white worms are a problem in SoCal so I can now tilt the engine completely out of the water. At idle the engine is so quiet I have to shut off the bait pump to hear if it is running Of course the downside is I am sure I have nicked my flywheel several times by trying to start it when it is already running.

Egads!...in almost 40 years of boating in Baja, I've collected a few ..some for fishing, some for gunkholing, some for c-cktails, some for sailing...some for planting flowers in...it's been a blast so far.

This is my US boat but I'll probably tow it down this summer. I've always wanted to overnight off La Guardia and points further south. The biggest negative to a big boat is the hassle of fueling it up when I live five miles down a rutted dirt road from the local pemex.

I suggest that you re-torque every one of your trailer's bolts after each trip to the Pemex. I had an axle come off on THAT road! (Of course the trailer was so new at the time the bolts had no rust on them yet)

I think I would just launch it at Guillermo's and anchor just offshore at Gecko's so I could keep my trailer off that road

[Edited on 11-25-2010 by Alan]

Let me know when you are ready to donate it to a worthy cause