Michael Rybovich & Sons · Hull No. 9 · 2025

Da Bait

Photograph · Michael Rybovich & Sons

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.

Build sheetMichael Rybovich & Sons · Hull No. 9 · 2025

Designer
Michael Rybovich & Sons
Original power
Twin Caterpillar C32B, 2,000 hp each
Construction
Cold-molded

Her story, name by name

  1. 2025 – present

    Da BaitCurrent

    Confirmed · michaelrybovichandsons.com

  2. 2025

    Delivery

    Launched 2025. 19 ft 6 in beam, 5 ft 7 in draft, 90,000 lb full load, 2,000 gallons of fuel; twin Cummins Onan 29 kW.

    Confirmed · michaelrybovichandsons.com

MediaPhotography, film, print

On file, shown only with permission: Michael Rybovich & Sons, 4 photographs

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