I love eating fish but I am not an angler. If I were an angler I may have fought harder to make the 30 more fishable. There are plenty of dealers and a lot of potential clients who would argue that we should have made the Back Cove 30 into a fishing machine but I am more pragmatic than that as are our designers and engineers.
Certainly a Back Cove 30 can be fished. Even a dock can be fished right? What makes true blue fishermen upset about our design is the fixed seating in the cockpit. This decision was not taken lightly so please let me explain.
First we looked at the results we had with the Back Cove 29 and the fishing packages we offered on that model. The results of that analysis told us that serious fishing was not why people bought Back Cove 29's (or 26's or 33's for that matter). Yes we did sell a lot of rod holders and we sold some complete fish packages as well but they were in the minority.
Second and most important but most difficult for anglers to accept is that there is a technical reason we opted for fixed seating. The opening created for the transom door leaves the two flanks of the transom unsupported on one of three sides. That may eventually lead to gelcoat crazing around the bottom corners. And so we chose the seats because their shape, when seen in profile, is a knee or brace that fully reinforces the transom.
Here's the plug of the 30 deck seen a couple of weeks ago showing the seating on the left, the steps to the side deck in the middle and the aft end of the helm deck seating on the right.
Of course there is a third point here too and that is the fact that this seating design makes this one of the best places possible to hang with family and friends so come this summer maybe the fishermen can put down their rods for an hour and come sit with us in the comfort of the Back Cove 30. We're serving fresh sea food
