Buddy Davis · HIN DBF61115D101 · 2001 · 4 names since 2001

Hook'n Gingers

FormerlyBlack Tip IIBlack TipCuda

A Buddy Davis 61 built at Wanchese in April 2001 and documented that June as Black Tip II. Black Tip out of Key West by 2020, then Cuda out of Carolina Beach, she has been documented as Hook'n Gingers since January 2026 and was entered in that year's Big Rock.

Her story, name by name

  1. From 2001

    Black Tip II

    Reported · cgmix.uscg.mil

  2. April 2001

    Build

    Built by Davis Boat Works: HIN build code April 2001, model year 2001; 61.0 ft registered, 17.5 ft breadth, 64 GRT. Documented as Black Tip II, certificate issued June 13, 2001.

    Confirmed · cgmix.uscg.mil, U.S. Coast Guard

  3. Undated

    Black Tip

    Reported · U.S. Coast Guard

  4. 2022 – 2026

    Cuda

    Reported · U.S. Coast Guard

    Documented as Cuda (Carolina Beach, NC) by the February 2022 USCG file; January 2022 still carried Black Tip (Key West, FL) under the same official number and HIN.

  5. 2026 – present

    Hook'n GingersCurrent

    Confirmed · U.S. Coast Guard, tournament.thebigrock.com

    Documented as Hook'n Gingers (Southport, NC) by the January 2026 USCG file; December 2025 still carried Cuda.

  6. June 2026

    Tournament

    Entered the 2026 Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, Morehead City, as Hookin' Gingers, 61' Buddy Davis.

    Reported · tournament.thebigrock.com

SistersOther Buddy Davis 61s, then 2001 builds

  1. My Buddylaunched as Pelagic Magic III · 2 names since 2001HIN DBF45101E101 · 45200146.8 ft

Not yet on record: photographs.