Da Bait

A 70-footer for an owner who releases well over a hundred blue marlin a year, built to fish the Virgin Islands: four staterooms with a tackle room off the crew quarters, freezer space, insulated ice dump and transom fish box, in-deck fittings for removable livewells. On her sea trial out of Palm Beach Inlet she cruised at 36 knots and touched 42 on twin Caterpillar C32Bs, with her delivery due in St. Thomas for the Marlin Moon.