Maverick #4
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Maverick Sportfishing Yachts are cold molded yachts, carefully designed by 
dedicated fishermen and custom built by some of the finest craftsmen found anywhere in the world.
Marine surveyor, yacht designer & consultant, Paul R. Antsey of Rockledge, Florida summed up his survey for the buyer of The Bite like this: “The building process appears to be carried out to a very high standard. The completed boat is finished to a standard comparable to the most prestigious US custom manufacturers.”
Spanish Fly
Maverick hull 1#, the Spanish Fly has fished in four major Costa Rican billfish tournaments; plus, won the overall Los Sueños Signature Billfish Series Championship. For the five events entered, Spanish Fly’s record is three first places, one second, and one fourth.
For the 2006 series the Spanish Fly caught and released a record setting 97 sailfish and two marlin in just six days of fishing.
The Bite
The Bite owner John Chandler of Loxahachee, Florida had this to say as he was placing an order for a second 42' Maverick: “It is hard to believe this boat was built in Costa Rica. I have been on plenty of expensive custom built boats, but this 42' Maverick has the comfort, stability and smooth ride I have been looking for – and I have never fished on a better fish raiser.”
The Bite Maverick owner and avid fisherman Larry Drivon of Stockton, California said this: “After extensive shopping for a midsize sport fisher, I fished the Maverick 42' for several days against the competition head to head. I was so impressed with the performance and value, that I bought two!”
Maverick Specifications:
- LOA: 42 ft. 2 in.
- Beam: 13 ft. 7 in.
- Draft: 3 ft. 6 in.
- Weight: 22,000 lb (full fuel and water)
- Fuel: 450 gal.
- Water: 50 gal.
- Power: Twin 460-hp Caterpillar C-7 diesels
- Call for price and delivery time
Maverick must have some very smart owners. They based the company at Los Suenos Resort in Costa Rica, one of the finest fishing spots in the Western hemisphere and not a shabby place to live either. By building boats there, Maverick can take advantage of less costly workforce, an abundant supply of fine, tropical hardwoods virtually at cost and an ideal research and test site.
Maverick then passes the savings on to its buyers who get a superb fishing machine at a remarkable price. Yep, pretty smart, I’d say.
Performance
This 42-foot Maverick convertible 
custom-built for an avid angler from Pompano Beach, Florida, tops out at more than 30 knots and cruises at 75-percent-power at a steady 26 knots. Powered by a pair of 460-hp Caterpillar C-7 diesels and with a 14-degrees deadrise at the transom, the Maverick hops onto plane quickly and needs no tab adjustment at all.
At cruise, you can expect a cruising range of up to 700 miles from the 450 gallons of fuel the Maverick carries, before figuring in the standard 10-percent fuel reserve. That shows just how well today’s cold-molding technology works: a 42-foot, mostly wood boat that tips the scales at a mere 22,000 pounds – substantially less than most other 42-foot fishing boats.
Cockpit
As befits a design that spends all its time fishing in the tropics and very little time cruising, the cockpit of the Maverick tends to have more workspace than many comparably sized boats. That space has to come from somewhere and in this case, the salon will seem small by comparison.
You rarely find a boat built in Costa Rica that doesn’t feature lots of fine woodwork and the maverick presents no exception. Burma teak deck and covering boards showcase the entire cockpit and teak trim and toerail add contrast to the broken shearline, cabin top and flybridge coaming.
Maverick delivers its boats ready to fish and in this case, that means a 500-pound-per-day ice chipper feeding into a 6-foot belowdeck fish box, an oversized belowdeck baitwell and a very cool installation containing four tuna tubes hidden in the gunwale (a necessity for Central-American offshore fishing). Other standard features include Rupp triple-spreader outriggers, a Release Marine fighting chair with rocket launchers on the back and tackle station and deep freeze modules at the forward end of the cockpit.
Flybridge
Again bowing to the dedicated fishing this boat has been built for, the flybridge has a paucity of guest seating. But the short overhang and larger cockpit provide the helmsman with a completely unobstructed view of the fighting chair and aft three-quarters of the pit. In fact, without lots of space dedicated to guest seating, the relatively small flybridge affords awesomely unobstructed views for 360 degrees.
While you can certainly dictate your own preferences for your electronics suite, the owner of this Maverick stipulated a Furuno 25-kW X-band radar, Depthsounder that locks bottom to 5,000 feet, Furuno GPS Navigator and NavNet, Simrad Autopilot, Two VHF Radios and JBL Stereo. Though Maverick offers it as an option, this owner decided to forego the tuna tower.
Interior
Once again, you’ll find beautiful rare hardwoods in the interior. Set out like a dayboat, some might consider the salon Spartan. But for day-fishing where fishing is so hot you rarely get a chance to leave the cockpit, the interior is more than sufficient. Two 16,500-btu air-conditioner chills the stateroom with its two oversized-twin berths and the full-sized head forward.
However, the interior isn’t so spare as to not include a galley with two-burner stove, refrigerator and sink.
Design and Construction
Maverick cold-molds its boats with four layers of ¼-inch Laurel blanco with each layer on the bias. Laurel blanco is a strong, light-weight substitute for mahogany that grows from southern Mexico to the southern edge of the tropics in South America. That wood then gets covered with protective layers of fiberglass and epoxy.
The superstructure is Meranti marine plywood. Meranti is a very high-quality plywood replacement for regular mahogany. In fact, Meranti, Okoume, Sapele and Sipo are all different species of mahogany commercially made into plywoods. They all enjoy a finer finish and strength than standard marine plywood made from fir. Probably the greatest thing about it is it's color. The hull and superstructure – completely encased in fiberglass – then get painstakingly hand-faired to perfection.
The Maverick displays very traditional lines and the company spends every cent it needs to to meet the stringent demands of world-class anglers that fish out of Los Suenos. And it doesn’t spend a penny more on fluff.
Take a look at this boat and judge for yourself. Think it’ll do the job?
First check out the quality of our workmanship at our facility five minutes from the airport in San José, Costa Rica.
Then fish on one of our Maverick 42s — Spanish Fly, The Bite, or Super Fly— all available for charter at the Los Sueños Marina.
Do not hesitate to contact us to info@maverickyachtscostarica.com for more information.