Today, you can count the number of boatbuilders who are producing custom sport-fishers in the 38-to-50-foot range on one hand, and even fewer are building cold-molded wood boats that are truly custom in every sense of the word. Fortunately, Maverick Yachts Costa Rica is carrying on that time-honored tradition of craftsmanship in Herradura, Costa Rica, not much more than a stone’s throw from the entrance to that well-known sport-fishing destination that is Los Sueños Resort and Marina.
I’m fortunate to have spent hundreds of hours in the cockpit of a 43-foot Maverick, fishing the boat in all kinds of weather from Guatemala to Panama. Contrary to popular belief, it does get rough from time to time in Central America, and the 43s are, has more than 50,000 hours of hard fishing under her belt, yet she looks and rides just as good as she did when she first hit the water 20 years ago.