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Owning and Running a Game Boat...

This article is based on ownership of a very modest small flybridge game fishing boat. In the overall scheme of things, it's another toy that falls roughly into the vintage sports car, ski lodge membership, and light sports aircraft ownership category in terms of dollars spent per fun ticket.
The boat used as an example in the article below is at the low end of the scale - while the one in the illustration above is the dream machine. 
The owner of a professional game fishing charter boat recently told me that since he commissioned his boat 12 years ago, his fuel bill alone had exceeded $630,000! This makes the boat described below bargain basement game fishing by comparison, but as with all these things, in the end, you get what you pay for. 
The good news is that the size of the boat and the money it costs to run generally don't have any direct correlation with the number of game fish you catch - that's more a function of the experience levels and fishing styles of the skipper and crew, and as with all things in this sport. . . luck.
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