44346 is for sale until 9 DEC 07 on ebay. Asking $129,700.

Also, the person selling this has a websit, mlb44.com, and is soliciting stories and/or information from folks who have a connection with her from her days at Station Monterey Bay.

Check it out.

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This is the perfect ship to have for deep-sea fishing.

Now that's funny......

Wray...

Yeah perfect for deep sea fishing if you have all day to get there and most landlubbers would be tossing their cookies if the swell got over 2'.

I loved the old 44' MLB but a deep sea fishing vessel she isn't.

I have a question. Were the Left Coast 44s built at Curtis Bay? If so, how'd they get out to the Left Coast?

They were good fishing boats......., oops, did I say that out loud??

duck,

They were great fishing boats for folks that were used to the motion.

yep, the trolling speed was just about right. Well, cause that was the only speed you had.
As you mentioned, you had about as much 'chum' as you would need from the new guy

Seems like the owners wife isn't fond of it.......

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"My wife hates it," he said. "It's nothing she ever wants to ride around on and do something with. I can't really argue with her because she's right."

http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_7560037?nclick_check=1

Wray...

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I have a question. Were the Left Coast 44s built at Curtis Bay? If so, how'd they get out to the Left Coast?

All the US Coast Guard 44's were built at Curtis Bay. They were trucked across country to the West Coast Stations.

Wait just a munute. You can,t fish off a 44 footer, we had about 10 pages on that in another thread.

I heard they made great party boats, oops did I just say that out loud!

Alan,

I thought maybe they went out by rail. I brought a couple up from Curtis Bay to group Woods Hole. However, a trip through the Panama Canal to the Left Coast would have been quite a trip.

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Originally posted by Hooligan1790:
Alan,

I thought maybe they went out by rail. I brought a couple up from Curtis Bay to group Woods Hole. However, a trip through the Panama Canal to the Left Coast would have been quite a trip.

Our 47'r came on a flat-bed trailer to Duluth, MN. There's a picture of it out there somewhere.

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Originally posted by Hooligan1790:
Alan,

I thought maybe they went out by rail. I brought a couple up from Curtis Bay to group Woods Hole. However, a trip through the Panama Canal to the Left Coast would have been quite a trip.

I never made a 44' run, but we brought 2 41's through the C&D from Baltimore to Base Gloucester.

I was a coxn on that boat in 92 thru 95, Monterey is not a surf station, so no surfman qual. There are some pictures of it floating around from when it went up on the rocks off of Point Pinos, it was loaded on a flat bed rail car and returned to "Group Monterey"

EDIT: that happened long before I got there, as far as a party boat I can remember finding Buttons off a girls blouse in the fwd compt during morning boat checks,hmmmmmmmmm

Thats my old boat from the mid 80's!! I had the stainless tow bit and bow bitts installed.
Have a lot of blood sweat and joys from that slow roller. Tore the coxn chair off with me in it at Asolimar Beach during surf drills.
The ladies button in the fwd compt, is only the beginning of the story, but boats cant talk!! Ha Ha................
Rock on
BillD

Something about that fwd compartment seat design made for some interesting moments, so I've heard.

A good Coastie adapts to most anything. Work smarter not harder.

Don't have a connection but my husband wrote a poem about the 40 UT Would you like it, at the end it says
"Forget about the 40 and take the MLB:

Esther,

I still have and treasure the books you sent me containing Floyd's stories and poems. Every time I open one I think of the other board and its civility.

Why don't you post the peom then
I won't mind.
It would be fun to get the answers about the MLB
Esther