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Proud moment
Posted By: Brianb
Date: Wednesday, 23 November 2005, at 12:08 p.m.
Last Saturday through Monday, the Presidential Challenge tournament series wrapped up in Guatemala. This series is a IGFA qualifier, with pretty serious teams, fishing 20lb IGFA line for billfish. It is a smaller series, but the caliber of angler is high. In the series, unless the owner is present on a team, the teams must rotate boats daily.
One of my little 31s, Reel Escape, and crew came out top boat on day 1, day 2 and I believe(could be wrong)tied for day 3 but lost the day 3 top spot on time. Overall Reel Escape was the top boat for the tournnment(even against 61 vikings, carolinas, cabos, etc). The new Captain, Chris vanLeewan, and crew performed flawlessly, and had more releases by a good margin over the other boats. I was fortunate to be present for the awards, and it was nice to see the crew receive awards and recognition, and see that most of the winning teams, and individual awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place were also on our boat on different days.
It was one of those moments of happy boat ownership.
Brian
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