1985 31 Foot Duffy

-Awl-grip finish
-Bottom Paint
-Deep Clean
-Homemade Sorting/Banding Table
-Stainless Hauling Skid Plate

*Coming soon-Raising the roof 6 inches

This is a 1985 31 Duffy with a TAMD41B Volvo 6 cylinder turbo diesel in it. The engine has about 7,300 hours on it. We cruise at 13-14 knots. Wide open 17.5 knots. My brother and I have been commercial lobster fishing for 7 years. For the first 3 years we fished on a 20 foot Shamrock center console with a 302 Ford in it. Then after those 3 years of fishing and growing the business along with getting more traps, we decided we needed something bigger. So a buddy down at the boatyard said a friend of a friend had a boat for sale down in Rye, NH. So that weekend we went down, the gel coat was completely gone and it needed some more work. The motor was good, it had relatively new electronics and had some other work done to it. So we bought it and had it hauled home. Then that following spring we had the hull and house Awl Gripped and we had the name put on. Then you may ask: “why is the boat named Ol Sarge?” It all starts with my grandfather, who was a Sergeant in the Marines. When he got out of the service he went into the family blueberry business. One day he figured he would go with a friend to lobster fishing because he had always worked on land and thought working on the water would be something different. When he was out there he dropped an offshore lobster trap (Which is at least 200 lbs) on his big toe. The guys kept telling him that he should go sit down but Papa told him he was fine and to keep setting gear. After working on it for many days and setting many trawls of lobster traps, he finally let the guys look at his foot when they were heading home, and they described it as “an eggplant gone wrong”. Our grandfather’s friend’s brother was on the boat with them and he worked with Commercial Fisheries magazine and wrote an article telling the story and said that our grandfather was the toughest guy he had ever met with the name of the article being “Ol’ Sarge: A True Marine With Plenty Of Heart”. And after all that, he absolutely loved it, but by trade he was a blueberry farmer and never got to do it full time, but he always dreamed of doing it in his retirement. Papa passed away before he got to do that and 9 years before my brother and I were born. So 22 years after Papa passed, my brother and I thought we would name our boat after him so we could help him live out his dream. On June 30, 2018 my brother and I launched the boat and never looked back. That boat has done us really well in the time we have had and it has hauled a lot of traps! She's very sturdy in the water and the turning radius is very good. We can put 50 traps really comfortably on it and the motor is still running strong . We’ve stayed in touch with the friend who wrote the article about Papa all those years ago and when we told him what we named the boat he wrote an article about my brother and I saying that this is the next chapter to our grandfather's story. Every year since we have had the boat we have had a copy of the article that Papa’s friend wrote and a picture so he can watch us fulfill his dream.