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As it turned out she had had many people call and several crassly offered very little money because it needed work. I was taken back when she called some years later. I told her I understood it was not easy but when she was ready to let Merlin go I would like to help if I could. I was worried the owner's wife would get screwed as she really knew not much of boats and she was now in charge of a desirable one. I did however at the time offer to help with the sale if it was not to be sold to me. I was one of many people that had asked about the boat while she stood dormant. It is with great respect for the history of the boat, and with even more respect for the man and the family that I am committed to bringing her back to her former glory all while honoring their past. The original owner did just that for a long time and was one of just a handful of commercial fisherman working out of the once great commercial port of Nantucket.ДЄfter a long and storied career making a living from the sea, time and life caught up with Merlin and the owner.ДЄt the end Merlin sunk at her dock and her proud owner had gotten too sick to fish any longer. Commissioned by it's original owner to do one thing and do it well. Merlin is a well known boat around Nantucket. The fact that I own a 36 Northern Bay is a story with all those things wrapped up in one tale. Life has taught me that good things will happen to good people but also that unfortunately, bad things happen to good people as well.

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Some full of hope and some telling of despair.

Where are you located? I'm in Tierra Verde (southern tip of St. So now I can run a machine with chart, center has Yamaha, and the 3rd has depth.Д¬ongrats on your purchase! You will love the boat. I removed the entire dash and added a 9' Garmin GPSMAP dedicated to the Yamaha display and made a new black dash (custom boat cabinet shop did the black acrylic). It came with two 10' Garmin GPSMAP displays with the black dash. A special team evidently does the rigging at the factory. They said the Billistic model can't even be compared to a 'normal' Key West. I had some warranty work (pumps) done by the Dealership mobile guys (thumbs up to them). Everyone that has fished or cruised in the boat has been super-impressed with the ride, the look, the layout. I have 120 hours on it now.Д«ottom line: The boat is a BEAST. but sounds like you made a great decision to buy a 261 Billistic.

And it's foam filled to provide an ultra safe unsinkable platform.

The 261 Billistic impressed me so well that I commented, that boat is a beast offshore. We moved around trying to find fish and eventually caught a few, but even though the weather was so nasty that no one else was out there, we never felt unsafe in the boat. The theory I've heard that every 5th wave is larger than the rest proved to be true that day. An occasional wave would chip over the bow. We were either in the wrong spot, or others were smart enough not to be out there.ДЄfter a few minutes I passed around some crackers to the two guys who had started looking green. When we stopped, holding on, I looked around for others in the good spot, and we were alone. Legitimately we should have gone to work instead, but we ran out, a long way to what was supposed to be a good spot. As is typical of working men, if you have a day off and an opportunity to go offshore, it's nasty that day. He asked me and a couple of others to accompany him offshore one day. To address the question though, how does the 261 handle in seas? A good friend of mine bought one a while back. Anytime any model is dropped I get the questions. Whether the line comes back or not isn't as important as the fact that production was not stopped because of any inherent flaws with the boats themselves.