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If you are in the market for a 20 foot fishing machine. Call North Rip Now. They have one of their NR 20 demo boats for sale and it is a complete beauty! I rode in the boat today and it is amazing. Best riding 20 footer I've ever been in. Fit and finish are unmatched. With the options this boat is worth $66K new and they are selling it for $45 K. The 200 HDPI has only 29 hours on it. I had to pass because my of my job situation otherwise I would have bought my last 20 footer today. Someone buy this boat. btw, it's www.northrip.net It is the boat on the NR 20 pictures tab! Tell 'em Rick sent you.
Anyone thinking of spending $45K on a 20 foot boat needs to have their head examined!
That's pretty funny - on another site there was a NorthRip owner saying the same thing about someone who would buy a McKee and driving a Nissan. I think he had a NorthRip and was driving a Porsche and made more money than both of us combined.
Let's step back an look at the demogrphics for a minute. If the NorthRip is truely an offshoot from Hinckley, then the clients are most likely the same. Their spending $600K to $1.5M+ on a Hinckley and looking for a dock boat at the 7,000 square foot "camp" in the mountains or a "dock boat" at the winter house in FL. These are the same people flying into the local airport near Hinckley (on their private jet) to check the progress of their new boat. Do they really need their head checked or just need to run down to the local McKee dealer an buy a bakers dozen boats for the same price? The market for boats is quite large and North Rip (and Hinckley for that matter) are not trying to appeal to the "average" boater. Heck, how many "average" car owners are driving a Porsche?
If you do not have money you will never understand. I was lucky enough to get a weekend tutorial from someone I'm good friends with when he wrote a check (yes, a check) for a $200K "dock" boat. It was delivered to his dock 2 weeks later when the check cleared. It get used about 15 hours per year and he does not drive a Nissan, but I would......
Anyone thinking of spending $45K on a 20 foot boat needs to have their head examined!
Wow, I know few boat owners who consider their boat purchases perfectly sane or financially prudent ones. There are those (my wife sometimes) who would say everybody on this site needs to have his head examined. There are those that might say somebody spending 30K to restore a 30 year old Potter Built Seacraft is crazy. I'd never tell it to the guy who loves his restored Potter Built Seacraft. It's all relative. I've had production boats, and now I have a custom, limited production boat (similar situation to North Rip). I don't make crazy money, and don't have a "family compound." Looked at plenty of 20-21 footers and I simply fell in love with the design of a specific boat. Spending an extra ten or twelve grand or so for the hull I REALLY wanted was the decision I made. If forced to make sense of it: seeing as I usually own a boat for six or seven years, that boils down to less than 2K a year - figure 50% of that difference back on resale, now it costs me less than a grand a year to have my dream hull instead of the compromise.
Have you seen the North Rip? It's a pretty hot boat.
I've had offers over $45k for my B20 custom adn as far as I could see none of the guys offerring were certifiable. Wait till I let slip what I actually got for it! It's all about quality...
It's a pretty boat from the picts on the website.
I like Superflys better tho.... What if you want to take someone with you on the boat? What is the crew supposed to hold on to or lean against. Console is just too narrow IMHO
I've had offers over $45k for my B20 custom adn as far as I could see none of the guys offerring were certifiable. Wait till I let slip what I actually got for it! It's all about quality...
BTW, in one of it's holds you can put a 400 lb Tuna!!! No production or semi-production 20 footer has this much storage. Something like 100 gallons total (not quarts gallons)
__________________ Jones Brothers Cape Fisherman 2000 Sport
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Oh yeah, this boat tracks on rails! You can also stand straight up next to the gunnels and lean comforatably against it!. A feature lost in the world of 2 piece liner boats.
They designed the boat so someone in stand up gear can easily manuver 360 degrees around the boat without problems. The entire boat is has a non-wood core cutting down the hull noise significantly.
Sharp turns with NO prop ventilation! Very nice.
$45K for this boat is seems like short money especially considering that there at least 10 boat makers that I know of with 20 footers over $50K. Other boats don't even come close, IMHO.
Believe it or not some people actually appreciate a well design, well built boat! Like I said in my original quote it would be the last 20 footer I ever bought. This kind of quality design and build needs to stay in the market place so other can be measured.
__________________ Jones Brothers Cape Fisherman 2000 Sport
Yami F150
Load Master Trailer by East Coast Trailers!!!!!!!!!
Furuno GP7000F
Not a for me boat. Nice looking but all that bow flair and fat gunnel cap is taking up alot foward interior space. Skinny looking in the transom, wonder if it buries the rear quarter in hard turns. Sounds like a deal though seeing how their taking over 20g of the price.
Appreciate the comments guys. This boat has so much room in the bow it feel much bigger. It feels like a 22' on the inside. Like I said in one of my earlier posts. This hull tracks so beautifully it is hard to describe. Tight turns and no prop ventilation!
__________________ Jones Brothers Cape Fisherman 2000 Sport
Yami F150
Load Master Trailer by East Coast Trailers!!!!!!!!!
Furuno GP7000F
Looks like the offspring of a Gloucester-20 and Lema/NorthCoast-20.
-- Tom
If this hull is being laid up in Bristol RI it has to be outstanding. They have some great glass rats in this area. LOL $45+k isn't surprising as this area is know for quality in yacht building. I would agree it looks like Dick Lema's design had a hand in this hull. This whole area is know for being a head of the curve with composites today and other advance boating technology for the last 100 years dating back to Herreshoff . If you want a glass hull and have the money you can buy advance technology in RI but it's going to cost if it's sail or power.
Bristol and this area is mostly known for sailboats but Ted Hood and others are also doing some great things over on Aquidneck Island with power. Narragansett Bay is a world class area to sea trail most any type of hull. When it's blowing from the South 10-15 knots up Narragansett Bay you can have honest 2-4 in the bay with larger seas at the mouth of the East or West Passage. Almost every day you can count on white caps in the 2-3' range. There are so many reputable builder in this area I've lost track of them.
Like one poster wrote if he bought this 20' hull it would be the last 20' he would ever have to buy. As for me I agree but $45k is a lot of money for a 20' hull. IMO
North Rip 20 
if you want buy a boat in that money range go with a better riding boat... 
