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| Costa Rica Custom-Built Yachts |
Performance
This 42-foot convertible custom-built boat tops out at more than 30 knots and cruises at 75-percent-power at a steady 26 knots. Powered by a pair of 460-hp Caterpillar C-7 diesels and with a 14-degree deadrise at the transom, It hops onto plane quickly and needs no tab adjustment at all. At cruise, you can expect a cruising range of up to 700 miles from the 450 gallons of fuel , before figuring in the standard 10-percent fuel reserve. That shows just how well today's cold-molding technology works: a 42-foot, mostly wood boat that tips the scales at a mere 22,000 pounds - substantially less than most other 42-foot fishing boats.Cockpit As befits a design that spends all its time fishing in the tropics and very little time cruising, the cockpit tends to have more workspace than many comparably sized boats. That space has to come from somewhere and in this case, the salon will seem small by comparison. Burma teak deck and covering boards showcase the entire cockpit and teak trim and toerail add contrast to the broken shearline, cabin top and flybridge coaming. This boats are ready to fish and in this case, that means a 500-pound-per-day ice chipper feeding into a 6-foot belowdeck fish box, an oversized belowdeck baitwell and a very cool installation containing four tuna tubes hidden in the gunwale (a necessity for Central-American offshore fishing). Other standard features include Rupp triple-spreader outriggers, a Release Marine fighting chair with rocket launchers on the back and tackle station and deep freeze modules at the forward end of the cockpit. Flybridge Again bowing to the dedicated fishing this boat has been built for, the flybridge has a paucity of guest seating. But the short overhang and larger cockpit provide the helmsman with a completely unobstructed view of the fighting chair and aft three-quarters of the pit. In fact, without lots of space dedicated to guest seating, the relatively small flybridge affords awesomely unobstructed views for 360 degrees. While you can certainly dictate your own preferences for your electronics suite, the owner of this Maverick stipulated a Furuno 25-kW X-band radar, Depthsounder that locks bottom to 5,000 feet, Furuno GPS Navigator and NavNet, Simrad Autopilot, Two VHF Radios and JBL Stereo. Though Maverick offers it as an option, this owner decided to forego the tuna tower. Interior Once again, you'll find beautiful rare hardwoods in the interior. Set out like a dayboat, some might consider the salon Spartan. But for day-fishing where fishing is so hot you rarely get a chance to leave the cockpit, the interior is more than sufficient. A 16,500-btu air-conditioner chills the stateroom with its two oversized-twin berths and the full-sized head forward. However, the interior isn't so spare as to not include a galley with two-burner stove, refrigerator and sink. Design and Construction 
cold-molds boats with four layers of ¼-inch Laurel blanco with each layer on the bias. Laurel blanco is a strong, light-weight substitute for mahogany that grows from southern Mexico to the southern edge of the tropics in South America. That wood then gets covered with protective layers of fiberglass and epoxy. The superstructure is Meranti marine plywood. Meranti is a very high-quality plywood replacement for regular mahogany. In fact, Meranti, Okoume, Sapele and Sipo are all different species of mahogany commercially made into plywood's. They all enjoy a finer finish and strength than standard marine plywood made from fir. Probably the greatest thing about it is it's color. The hull and superstructure - completely encased in fiberglass - then get painstakingly hand-faired to perfection.
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