pro angler

starcrafttom · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: pro angler

http://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/boa/450037184.html

look at what I found

oldgrowth · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:38 am Post subject:

It looks like a C-Dory with a flat top, forward sloped front windows and like it may have been designed for an inboard. There is no cut out for an outboard in the transom.

Sure looks like a nice boat.
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Dave

Sea Wolf · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:51 am Post subject:

If you're interested in this boat, you might want to read this threads from the past!:

C-Dory 26' Pro Angler

C-Dory Pro Angler 26???

26 C-Dory?

That's a lot of boat for $35,000!!!

P.S.: It's in Gustavus, Alaska, next to Glacier Bay and the Icy Straits!

Buy it and drive it to Seward and bring 'er home on your trailer!

Joe. (Your sometimes Librarian of the Archives)

Jack in Alaska · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:27 am Post subject:

The 26' CD for sale in Gustavus, Alaska in one of 6 that they had and used as charter boats. I think this one is the last one. I looked into it last fall but decided no. The hull is the same as the two that are shown in my photo album. The gunnels and house are different though.

Also I just got done kicking myself in the butt AGAIN for not buying that last new ProAngler in Fla. last year. What a dope i was.

Maybe there was a reason. I am still looking for something different but having a hard time replacing my old 22' Angler.

Squarehead · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject:

*drool*

me likey Cool

B~C · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

Jack- there was still about six of those pro-anglers running around Gustavus this summer. I snapped some pics of a few of them. There is a guy in Pelican that has one of them also.

Last winter, on a tip from a friend, I e-mailed that outfit with the c-dorys looking for summer work....damn glad I never heard back from them and ended up in Elfin Cove instead. Those poor buggers have a long drive to get to the good salmon fishing in the ocean and when they get back they have to deal with that crummy transient dock and mooring bouys....arg

pics- http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_albumName=Blue%7EC&id=C_D1&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

cool boats

http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_albumName=Blue%7EC&id=C_D2&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

Sea Wolf · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject:

Ken-

I know you don't specifically now about this individual boat, but would it be possible to speculate a little on what kind of shape a boat like this that's been in the charter business might itself be in???

Joe.

B~C · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject:

Hell, I know liitle about anything but speculate about many things Smile

I spent most of a day killing time at the dock in Gustavus and had a chance to eyeball a few of them rascals up close and best way to put it would be "work boat like" A charter boat is going to have some bumps and bruises, your always going to have that wayward gaff or 3# halibutt weight banging into the gel coat but hell, it's a C-dory, wash out the puke, throw a good coat of wax on it & maybe update the interior and you have a nice boat..........if my eyes didn't decieve me, those boats looked like they had a self bailing deck, at any rate, the deck was not the standard issue C-D, probably due to the different hull design.

I'll some better pictures next year Smile

seahooked · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:09 am Post subject:

Last year I traveled to Juneau to look at a 2003 CD-25 that had been used as a fishing charter. The marine surveyor stated the boat was in 'very good' condition with many years of life remaining. I was shocked when examining the boat. The boat was beat to crap, corrosion was everywhere (in fact many of the 'notorious' galvanived angled brackets discussed on prior threads were completely corroded in half), and parts were missing. Hard to believe a 3-4 year old boat could be in such poor shape. I'm convinced the seller and the surveyor were buddies.

It was a good lesson for me though and convinced me (no, actually my wife) to buy new. Yeah!!

The lesson: All boats need TLC- and be especially skeptical of the condition of prior Alaskan fishing charters!

Jimbo · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:29 am Post subject:

So this would be like... 30,000.00 Cdn??? Sorry guys, just got to enjoy this better buck thing while it lasts!!!!
Jimbo

Pat Anderson · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:57 am Post subject:

Enjoy, folks in the border towns in Washington are loving it! Thanks to the strength of your dollar the shoppers are baaaack! The U.S. is such a bargain!