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Jones Brothers Marine

A North Carolina class act...

Background

Product Sample

Neat Stuff-Part I

Neat Stuff-Part II

Looking Ahead

Hull

For our model boat, we hopped aboard the Paradigm Shift, owned by Capt Scott Leon of Paradigm Shift Charters (http://www.paradigmshiftcharters.com). For those of you who follow the various print publications, you may recognize Scott’s name as the former editor of Fly Fishing in Salt Waters magazine, and as a Contributing Editor for Marlin magazine. Scott relocated to the West Coast from Florida about a year ago, and had a 26’ JBM Cape Fisherman LTE delivered to his home port of Dana Landing in Mission Bay.

Built-in tackle boxes

One the things which caught our eye was the attention to detail in the Cape Fisherman. Not just clean rigging, but very subtle, intelligent design features. For example, check out the doors on the build-in cabinets. Notice the small vertical block on the inside of the door? It pushes the drawers shut when the door is closed, and keeps the drawers from rattling. Very "zen of rigging"…

In a similar fashion, notice the direction of the bungee cord on the rod racks. The cords are attached at the bottom of the racks (instead of the top), and are pulled up to the keeper notch (not down).

Rod rack bungee cords

Looks wrong, doesn’t it? But it makes sense for a couple of reasons: first, having the bungee drop from the top means that the bungees are always in the way when trying to insert a rod back into the racks, By coming up from the bottom, the bungees naturally fall out of the way when unhooked. The second reason is that it is very obvious when the rack is open, so it is hard to drive off with loose rods. We actually intend to steal this idea from the Cape Fisherman, and retrofit it to our rod racks (sorry Donnie!).

Gel coated bilge!

More details - gel-coated bilge! Makes cleanup and spotting problems a breeze.

The Cape Fisherman 26 has very large under-deck storage / fishboxes (not shown), although the hatch is a bit small for our tastes. Because of the location and the foam surrounding it, the box is very well insulated.

Two-piece transom door
(Up position)

Two-piece transom door
(Down position)

Note the two-piece transom door. This allows the engines to tilt forward when needed, without compromising the transom opening too much. It also provides more cockpit area than if the motor well was designed to accommodate tilted engines without the door.