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A Tribute to Tradition

LOA: 43’o”

Beam: 14’10”

Draft: 2’9”

Displ.: 32,000 lbs

Power: (2) 550-hp Cummins QSB6.7 diesels

Back in the day, when a much younger Jim Turner was learning the ways of business at his family’s jam-packed Ritz Bakery in Manasquan on the Jersey Shore, there was a hub of sportfish boat-building activity absolutely booming about an hour to the south.

“In my mind, the three hotbeds for builders of sportfish boats is South Florida, the Carolinas and New Jersey,” he says. “All the influence in

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