Boat Walk Through - Contender 27 

Came across your channel a few weeks ago and just wanted to say how much I enjoy your content. Find myself binge watching. Keep up the great work, really one of the best I have seen.

My kid cousin bought a 32’ Contender a few yrs back and I have fished on it many times. I love that boat. We go inshore reef fishing and offshore with it. It performs awesome in all conditions! Love that boat.I think you are gonna love yours too. Contenders are badass. Congrats bro🤟🤟👍😎

ha ha thanks for the run through Aaron love the bottle of rum can't go wrong there.

That Hemingway rum is so smooth!! Best rum I ever had. Aaron got class boys and girls. Haha

Love the bottle of rum idea. Good video Sir 📹 👍

Excellent choice of rum ! I’ve been a fan for many years

Nice boat ! In 2004 I visited my dad on Leesburg Fla for a yr. While there I worked on building SheerWater in Groveland Fla. I was the deck LID man. Lol. Fit trim, installed All deck lid on their compartments. I like your boat much better !

Boat looks ready to go. Nice

Pretty Nice boat a little dirt but it’s the natural state of money maker machine 😎💪🏻 always good rum on board👍🏻

Always spectacular videos

Awesome channel. I like the slower delivery and the fact that you are not posing or pretending to be whatever you are not. Can you point me to the video where you were going to tell about your background and how you ended up doing what is obviously a labor of love? Godspeed.

Nothing like a contender, I have a new 30 t with twin 300 and love it . That's a fishing and money making machine . Love your channel

Cast bet is a must have , whf , legal requirements , and something to stop the bleeding are all must haves

Nice to see you man happy Father's Day if you're not going to be one God bless I am the old Fork

With everyone on mom's side of the family being Conchs and having been raised there I feel I have the right to call you out on something. Grunts! I may have missed it but I've never heard you mention the overlooked Grunt. Couldn't tell you the actual name of it, always been a Grunt in our house. While commercial fisherman and trophy hunters dismiss the lowly Grunt they are a long standing part of island culture. The old Conchs always talked about the 3 Gs...Grits, Grunts and Gravy a mainstay during the Great Depression. My first fish (pretty much every kids first fish) was a Grunt and I've still got the mount my grandpa had done of it. You missed out if you camped at Bahia Honda and didn't have a Grunt cooked on one of the rusty old grills. As a teenager working charter boat row in the summer we would stop at Sand Key whenever we had bad fishing. Catching a mess of Grunts always calmed down paying customers with no dolphin or marlin stories to take home. Nothing says island life like a head on, fried grunt drizzled with fresh key lime juice. thanks for the great videos and be safe out there

Looks like Hell of a Feesh Getter! Working Boat bro looked like money all over it!

The rum is a great addition to the “oh shit” box

i would love to detail your boat 😂love the contenders

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's 💪 Don't Grow tired of doing Good, God Wins Biggly 🙏 Viva Cristo Rey 💪🙏

Aaron - thanks for the walk through! Its great how you keep it real ... the forward fish box do you have that with a gas strut to lift? Do you use the bottom fishbox often given you have the yeti? Thx.

Nice! My dumb ass brother bought a 34 scarab without having a survey done. He was extremely lucky I was a carpenter and both of us have been on boats our whole lives. To make a long story short, it took me 7 painful years to rebuild 20 feet ( including the transom ) the boat from the inside out.

We have the opportunity to see with details the fish slaughter boat! I like the rum bottle just is case os cold LOL Thanks agan! I like your videos because you keep it real and honest! Keep up the good work! I am thinking to go to the keys to do some diving and would like to meet you sir! 😊😊👍👍🤿🤿🤙🤙🤙🦈🦈

Come to Pilar and visit, pick up a tour and tasting, tell them Nikki recommended it!

Nice boat awesome

Love the channel. I’ve seen your L&P mounted on a swivel rod-holder on the starboard side. It’s 90^ to the boat. Is that a 15 or 30 degree holder? Great idea.

That’s awesome. Great boat and work horse. How many hours u got in the motors thus far ?

The rum tho...🤣🤣🤣 laugh we laugh but rum could be used to clean a wound...and if its bad take a drink and then put on the wound🤣🤣🤣

Binging your channel- living a sick life and I’m sure you worked for every bit of it. When is video on your backstory coming out? Never been spear fishing and I’ve never heard anyone do it on the Great Lake (Lake Erie)

U the man !!

Love your videos and boat Aaron. Just outta curiosity, how many rods holders do you have on your boat?

Awesome videos , if you ever decide to take a fan spearfishing let me know , I live in miami & willing to make the drive. always want to get more experience in the water 🤙🏻

Contender is the wettest boat I’ve gone offshore on. Zero Carolina flare on the hull.

All you need

Work boat . My just in case would be Kentucky Bourbon 100 proof 😂 just in case .

I like spiced rum and coconut rum, how's the Papa's pillar? Great video

Bottle of rum...because you never know!!!... lmfao. 🤣🤣🤣

What power transducer are you using for the deep drop and can both units access the one unit.....Thanks!!

A bottle of rum for the float, what a champ 😆

Dream boat

Great video. I live in the lower keys and have a 243 everglades. I'm looking at 27 contenders as I need more boat with twins to travel offshore more. Do you have any cons about your boat? what year is the hull? Is there a similar sized boat you would rather have? Thanks for your input

What are the 2 hydraulic pumps for in your console? Jack plates or trim tabs ?

Nice walk through, nice boat! Do you think a 24ft Center Console is big enough to handle offshore seas most days down here in the keys? By most days, l'm talking winds gusting 20or less with 2-3 ft seas. I haven't had the chance to own bigger boats yet, looking to go bigger but only as big as needed to run most days and not have to wait for flat calm forecasts. Thanks!

Dream boat.What’s the pilchard report in key west?

Do you worry about your dog running on the island alone? Is there snakes such as cottonmouth or rattlers to worry or is there no snakes? Just would like to know what lives in the swampy areas of the island

Seems like everyone is adding trolling motors for virtual anchoring. Thoughts?

How do you keep your Spearfishing gear organized? Ppl just end up throwing everything on the floor of my boat to trip over. Did you design your speargun rack?! Thanks - Angelo, Charleston Sc

Finally watched your boat walk through… do ever use your outriggers? The one time I saw you troll was high speed Wahoo trolling…

Where do you store the spearguns?

What pumps do you run? Oh, and i know an upholstery guy... 😛 Liquid bandaid is good to have on boat.

Is this the 27 open or the 27T model as I’m looking to get one and have heard the 27 opens do not ride right with 4 strokes… they need a lot of tab to keep the bow down from what I’ve heard Vs the 27t

Aaron, could you tell me what model of seastar you're running please?

What’s up with the live well, I notice a lot of old contenders instead of having a plug on the bottom hole, it has a custome pvc drain. Not sure what it’s for because the live well has a drain on top to regulate the water level

Curious as to who makes the speargun holder on the back of the leaning post?

To confirm, is this a 2004 27 Open correct? - Have you been on a 27T to compare the differences? - I'm also assuming this isn't a G2 hull (the updated transom to support heavier 4-strokes) -- When I get closer to purchasing mine i'll book a charter so I can experience it for myself :)

There are three types of mangroves. Red, Black and White.

What are the u bolts on each side of the simrads for?

Beautiful. Bathroom?? Fridge?

Any reason you don’t have bottom paint?

Are you required to have a life raft or emersion suits for commercial fishing?

What are you using to secure the yeti?

Where did you get your gun rack?

Dude bottle of rum? First aide

Sell hats please👍🏼👍🏼

Aaron how much did you pay? I’m looking at 98 contender 27’ open with twin 250 05 Yamaha 4stroke 1700 hrs 85k ask was thinking of offering 65k.

I still prefer aluminum boats over fiberglass boats

Men and women watch your show also