[click photo to enlarge - awesome photo!]
[click photo to enlarge - awesome photo!]
Hull side door
Hard to believe but this one is true. One of our owners uses his Ocean Master 31 as a tender to his big yacht - a 100+ foot vessel. This big yacht spends much of the year in charter so the Ocean Master tender gets its fair share of hard use. But this time it was really put to the test.
While being towed behind the big yacht in 10-12 foot seas well offshore, the Ocean Master broke loose (it was later found out the tow eye snapped). Unfortunately, the crew of the big yacht had their hands full just navigating the primary yacht in the storm and the disappearance of the Ocean Master was not noticed until it was too late. They lost track of it in the big seas.
After a few days of searching, the Ocean Master was given up as lost. Here's where the story gets amazing. The captain of the large yacht was then driving along the Florida beach and noticed a crowd forming around a boat on the sand. Yep, it was the Ocean Master and he had stumbled upon it by chance while driving back to his home base.
After being adrift at sea, UN-MANNED, for 4 days in a rough storm and then washing up on the beach, the Ocean Master hulled suffered no real damage! The boat was towed home and touched up and is now back on the water. The only lasting damage was a big dent...in the beach.
Postscript:
As if the above wasn't enough, when speaking to the captain he said years earlier the same boat had broken loose from its mooring and ended up on the beach in CT. That time they rolled it on logs back out to the water and it was good to go. That happened twice, so this boat has had a total of 3 encounters with the shore in it's life...
Katanga I - a 1991 model
Katanga II - a 2006 model, refitted in 2008
Pair of Ocean Master Ocean Skiff 27's in Europe. Both are powered by single diesels and feature pilothouse with full 360-degree protection. As you can tell from the photos, both are engaged in commercial operations. Click here for more info on the 27 Ocean Skiff Diesel with Pilothouse.
www.oceanmasterboats.com/news/pilothouse.htm
We recently had the 336 Sport Cabin undergoing certification for European use - here are a couple of photos. The new Sport Cabin features full 360 degree enclosed cabin. As an option it can be ordered as a Day Boat (ie, open bulkhead). This first boat had an open transom as it is destined for commercial search and rescue work, though it would also be perfect for use as a dive boat (commercial or just for the diehard recreational diver).
somewhere in this mess is an Ocean Master 31
We were recently at one our dealers and snapped a few pics of one of our 27-H Diesel boats for sale. This one was matched to a Mercruiser I/O.
In City Limits Fishing, professional angler Mike Iaconelli is challenged to catch a limit of fish entirely within the boundaries of some of the USA’s greatest cities - and Captain Joe Mattioli (On the Bite Charters) and his Ocean Master 31 are there to provide the fishing platform.
Feb 15th - Schedule and Channel Info
(when you get to Versus site, enter your zipcode in upper left to find your local channel number. The show is titled City Limits and is scheduled for Feb. 15th on Versus)
The NEW 336 Express just launched - photos taken off Fort Pierce inlet. The boat is headed to our newest dealer, Cape Custom, in North Caroline.
Recent photos of the 31 Express Side Console taken in Marathon, Florida Keys. More photos and info coming soon.
Just delivered to Highborne Cay in the Bahamas. This is the owner's third Ocean Master! More pics to come shortly. FYI, while there, Southern Boating Magazine was shooting its annual swimsuit issue - there are wose things that can happen when delivering a new boat to the Bahamas... This particular Ocean Master was sold and rigged by Keys Custom Marine in South Florida. More pictures here: http://www.oceanmasterdealer.com/thisArticle.cfm?x=10
The Murry Bros. fishing boat from the old files. This photo was taken quite a few years ago but it struck us how nice the red hull color was. Not a typical color for sportfishing boats but it works well, especially with the ivory deck.
Just planting a seed for those of you shopping for a new Ocean Master...
Every Ocean Master is semi-custom and built for a particular owner. This means your Ocean Master will be set-up and rigged to YOUR specs. As an example, note the custom woodwork and controls on this Ocean Master 31 (work done by Keys Custom Marine, our south Florida dealer).
Over the 3 decades we've been in business we've pretty much done everything you can imagine. Call and let us build your ultimate boat.
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Came across this old shot - one of our owners in Louisiana. He misjudged the tide a little and had a spend a few hours waiting for the next one. He joked at the time that he was just testing his 31 out to see how it would do as a flats boat. Not so good, apparently.
No harm, no foul. Tide came back things were fine. No damage to the boat.
Remember. Tide Tables...
We spend more time in the southeastern Bahamian Archipelago where Cat Island, Long Island, San Salvador and Rum Cay are located. It’s “fishy” down there and it’s far from Florida. It’s only a small, serious group of fishing people that travel there…no big crowds. That’s fine by us.
Here are some photos of a recently launched 31 Center Console. The boat was headed to Texas for some hardcore fishing. She sports a custom hull color, an option now available on our boats (we're waiting for someone to order one in Fighting Lady Yellow like the old sportfish boats from the 60's). Conditions were a little lumpy for the boat's first day.
She was equipped with bracket transom and twin 250-hp outboards. And of course the custom hull color. Click on the link below for more photos.
1976, give or take...
Four Ocean Master 31' boats used by the Navy as charter boats, may very well be world record holders.
Operating in the treacherous waters of the Indian Ocean, much of the time in 8' to 10' close coupled waves, the Ocean Masters used by the US Navy at Diego Garcia have just surpassed 300,000 miles of use. This means that each boat has traveled the equivalent of 12 times around the world.
Master Chief Petty Officer Brian Limer, a serviceman in the Navy stationed at Diego Garcia, chartered one of the 31's up to three times a week for the year he was based at Diego Garcia. Said Brian "Until just recently, the Navy did not adhere to changing stages in weather. The captains were ordered to run the charters in all weather conditions."
The captain of the 31' Ocean Master that Brian fished from has been the captain of same boat for the last 9 years. The Navy has no plans to retire the Ocean Masters.
Below is a video from YouTube of fishing on Diego Garcia. You can see the Ocean Master 31 in the background on some of the shots.
These photos just arrived from one of our customers here in South Florida. Looks like a successful night of fishing by any measure.
"Say Joe, ya think this one's over the minimum?"
The world famous Pesca Panama lodge in Costa Rica employs a fleet of Ocean Master 27's with twin outboards. These boats are run day in and day out, year round. This is fishing at it's finest, enough to make us want to hop on plane and fly down asap. Their website has some great fishing photos (go to the section called Fishing Reports) along with a video of the lodge and the Ocean Master boats they use. Check it out.
9.7 mpg during an average day's use!
Oooh, NOT a good time to be running low on the brews...
