Rick , Nice boat. There is a very similar ride in our marina that also has a custom anchoring system for wreck fishing. Who's doing the anchors?
Good luck with her
Mike

Thanks Alot Mike. A good buddy Bill Heath has devised the system - he runs a machine shop and has installed the system on a growing number of charter/private boats from NJ out to Montauk and Orient point. All hauling of the anchors is done from the cockpit. I can provide additional information/photos if anyone is interested.

beauty!

nice !!! real nice !!!

power,what's powering it

Very cool. Good luck she is a beauty!

Shiny!

wow !! i had to look again !!
love those downeasters !!

She's a beauty..Best of luck with her....

Awesome looking boat, best of luck with her.

Capt Rick, what king of power are you dropping in her....

really like the look of this rig...putting any hydraulic gear on board

it's amazing how popular the down east boats have become in our area.every year,seems like there's more and more on the water...

That is one beautiful boat! Good luck with her.

Wow guys!! Thanks a million!! Power... yeah that was a tough choice. Thing is with these smaller size downeasters, there is limited space below decks. So if you want your engine below deck with out an "engine box" like I did, you have to first see what will make it under there. So its not a question of which engine do I like best, it is which engine do I like best that will fit under the deck. My builder loved the Yanmar 440. The other choices were the Volvo D6-435 and the Cummins B Series. I went with the Volvo. Jim, regarding the hydro powered hauler, if I were a canyon bottom guy I definitely would have gone with the hydro. But 95% of my fishing is inshore (inside of 50 miles) so I opted for the electric hydro slave hauler-had the same set up on my last boat and she worked like a charm. I am not sure if this would be allowed on this site - but i have a thread documenting the building of this boat with all of the details posted on another site. If it is cool to post the link let me know and I will gladly oblige. If not, just let me know. Again, thanks guys for the kind words

Some more pictures Capt. Rick, good luck with your new boat......
She's a fine looking vessel...

Sweet ride Captain.....def a good looking rig....

That is one Hull of a work of art in progress, very nice would be an understatement.

Dang....that is one fine beautiful boat!!!! Keep us posted with pics pls.

Jim

Thanks Guys!!! I had inquired (see above) about posting up a site where I have the entire build posted. Well no one said no so far, so if you would like to check the whole building process out take a look here:
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Look under Boats/Boating/Electronics forum there - "Building an RP 31"
Hope you all enjoy.

Capt. Rick sorry I missed your question. If you wouldn't mind not posting the link to a competing forum we would appreciate it. If I can help in any way in copying and pasting the content from your build thread let me know.

Thanks,
Joe

No problem at all Joe, sorry about that.

Heard RP had a fire. Hope your beautiful boat wasn't involved.

Hi Woody, Thank you for your concern, SE Newman and Sons is doing the finishing for me and they are 2 hours north of RP 's shop in Steuben Maine. So that didnt affect me. A crying shame for RP to lose the molds - at least no one was injured in the explosion and fire.

Same thing happened a few years ago at Evan's down in MD, I think he lost all the molds too.

i do soooooo love those downeasters.......