FISHING THE PACIFIC 



Island hull, flying bridge and enclosed deck cabin as well as 

 a forward cabin. There was no stove and we had only one 

 fighting chair along with a stout mast, uptop steering, roomy 

 and airy toilet, and two gin poles 14 feet in length. It was 

 finally decided to build the other two boats 38 feet long 

 with a beam of 1 1 feet. This model was molded more on 

 Glassell's and my ideas, and as Glassell had much to do with 

 the planning of the boat, he named her Miss Texas. Jamie 

 Llavallol named the other boat Petrel, and Gale named the 

 first one Pescador Dos. The two 38-footers are my ideal of 

 what fish boats should be. You can jump from any place 

 aboard and land down with good footing; you can get 

 around rapidly, weather cloths keep the spray off, you can 

 boat bigger fish than can any other type of craft ever built. 

 It was with great pride that I gave Joe Gale permission to 

 call them the Farrington Fishermen and now that they have 

 taken seven fish weighing over a thousand pounds I am grate- 

 ful that my name was used in this connection. This boat prob- 

 ably hasn't enough brassy glamour to catch on in the United 

 States, but for a practical, rugged fish boat with a marvelous 

 hull, a mast that will take two men in any kind of sea, fine 

 uptop controls, no cleats, low stern— perfect in every respect 

 for fighting big fish on light or heavy tackle, it's the finest 

 I've ever fished from by all odds. 



I have taken black marlin out of all three of these boats, 

 done a lot of light-tackle fishing from them and caught a 622- 

 pound swordfish as well. 



Many people wonder why development of Cabo Blanco 

 wasn't begun the minute the war ended. Frankly, I was too 

 busy playing hockey. I wanted to get more of that in before 



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