Stuck on the Dock? Do we want to fish every day? Yes. Can we fish every day? No. Whether it is a tornado warning, a herniated disk, or a busted leaf spring (all real reasons we’ve had to cancel fishing trips, by the way), there are just some days when […]
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Adding Value In this post, we continue our series on building the 2024 Atlas Boatworks demo boat. We’re covering the owner’s manual that accompanies your Atlas Boatworks 23F center console fishing boat. If you missed any of the previous posts, you can find them here on our blog. Many jokes […]
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Giddy Up! Welcome to a post on the center console layout on our 2024 Atlas Boatworks 23F demo boat. This is the next installment in our ongoing series about the building of our demo boat. If you’ve missed any of the previous posts you can see them here. In this […]
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And…we’re off! Picking up where we left off last time, we are going to delve into the world of small parts. The Atlas Boatworks 23F is a pretty simple boat by design. We’ve worked hard to make sure that you don’t have a ton of parts so the boat is […]
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Keepin’ On Alright, as promised in our last post, we are continuing the journey of our 2024 demo boat by talking about the different types of fiberglass that we have used. If you missed that post then back up the bookmobile and go back here and check it out. There […]
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Next Steps Welcome back! We are walking, step-by-step, through the building of our 2024 Atlas Boatworks 23F demo boat. Last week we talked about the skin coat. If you missed that, throw it in reverse and go back here and read that. This week we are going to dive into […]
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Next Steps Thanks for joining us again for the building of our Atlas Boatworks 2024 demo boat. In our last post, we talked about choosing the hull color (We went with white; see why here) and then spraying that color gelcoat into the mold. If you missed that post, go […]
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Our own custom-built boat Atlas Boatworks is a semi-custom boat builder. That means that we build the hull, center console, and livewell (essentially all the fiberglass parts) the same every time. Then you, as the customer, get to do the fun part. You get to choose all the accessories and […]
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Strakes Among the many features that enhance a center console fishing boat, bay boat, or flats boat’s performance and efficiency, strakes stand out as a crucial element. But what exactly are strakes, and how do they impact a powerboat’s performance? In this post, we will dive into what strakes are, […]
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Ramblins’ This is my 15th year attending the Raleigh Convention Center Boat Show. I know that because I have a 15 year-old and I’ll never forget my wife waddling around the show when she was 9 months pregnant. At some point we added in a trip to The Pit, our favorite bbq […]
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