Gary/Gasper Marino On Board With a 42' Express - Congratulations and Welcome to the Family!
Ritchie Howell Custom Carolina Yachts is happy to announce that Gary and Gasper Marino have just signed up to build their own Ritchie Howell. The jig has been ordered and construction no the hull will begin in January 2009 for a fall 2009 delivery of a 42' Ritchie Howell Express.
We'd like to share a wonderful letter sent to us by Capt. Gasper Marino:
For the past few years we have been going back and forth about purchasing a new vessel, and for the past 30 years we have bought and sold over a dozen or so more. With our experience we have fished more production boats than anything else, and personally have over fifteen years of experience working on one of the top production boats in the world.
The thought of going custom was thrown around time and time again, but there was always some reason why we never committed. Knowing the reputation Ritchie Howell has for not only building a fishing machine, but an extremely rugged hull, on the proven Carolina hull design, we figured lets give him a call. A few days later we were sitting at a local restaurant having lunch, after going through the 60' Canyon Runner with Ritchie and Adam LaRosa - Owner Canyon Runner Sport Fishing - and a few other projects Ritchie has going on, discussing the build process of our own Ritchie Howell Custom Carolina Yacht.
What impressed me the most and made me want my next boat to be Ritchie's next build, was his excitement about our ideas and his willingness to build us what we were looking for and not what he wanted to build. Working with Ritchie and his crew has been a unique experience. I personally feel you will not find a more straight forward, professional, and honest group of guys.
Come winter of 2009, when the 42' Ritchie Howell, "Wadmacallit", is finished and sitting at it's slip in Charleston, SC I know it will provide us with everything we are looking for, whether it for our tournament schedule or providing our charters with more comforts, safety, and excitement then they could ever of imagined.
Tight lines,
Capt. Gasper Marino
