Bob Sparks/Bahama Boat works
Scott Henley/Henley’s Custom Marine
“Men at Work”
What does it take to produce the most “highly evolved” offshore center console ever built? Hard work? You bet. Obsession, drive, determination? Absolutely. Pride, vision, Total commitment? Without a doubt.
Experience? You’ll need plenty. You don’t create a machine like the “Bahama” on gut feelings. You’ll need a lifetime of trial and error behind you. Failures and victories shape your ideas about how to do it exactly right the next time. You’ll have to spend countless hours working with raw materials, sweating and grinding, scratching and swearing. You’ll need to spend long nights after the rest of your crew have gone home fine tuning into the wee hours of the morning. To do whatever it takes to ensure a perfect finished product, you have to sacrifice. No excuses, no short cuts, just do the work.
You’ll need a lifetime on the water too. Not just miles of saltwater under your feet or in your veins but plenty of fishing experience. You need to understand the requirements of a world class fishing team in a boat. Not just have them tell you what they want, understand what they want. You have to have skills that only the actually doing provides, the kind of experience you can’t buy or inherit. You will have to have lived it.
These kinds of dreams aren’t conceived in boardrooms or at country clubs. These plans are made on the dock after a fifteen hour fishing day in twenty five knot winds during a hot Sailfish bite in January and in a metal warehouse in 90 degree August heat with high speed sanders screaming all around you at two in the morning.
Bob Sparks and Scott Henley have what it takes to make these dreams a reality. All of the above ingredients have gone into the creation of the two most perfect open fishing machines ever built. The Bahama 31 and the Bahama 41 are the end result of a lifetime of planning and wishing, dreaming and doing.
Having what it takes comes from Scott’s lifetime of experience working on sportfishing yachts and rigging the best boats available today to exacting specifications, and Bob’s lifetime of hard work and dedication building the finest open fishing boats available, one at a time, each with their own two hands. These two men have what it takes to make their dreams a reality. To make a sportfishing machine that inspires you to push a little harder, run a little further, fish a little later; to do what it takes to win. Do you have what it takes?
Bob Sparks, Fran Morrissey, Michael Burtnick of “Bahama Boatworks” and Scott Henley of “Henley’s Custom Marine” would like to wish all of the participants in this years Jupiter Billfish Tournament good luck fishing and challenge each of you to push yourself a little harder in pursuit of your dream. |
