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From The Helm: Davis 28 Center Console When you’re a charter captain and spend every day on the water, the quality of your boat’s ride matters. When you’re a charter captain with fused vertebrae who has had three back surgeries, it really matters. Captain Frank...

Buddy Davis 28 Center Console Overview The Buddy Davis 28 is a full-transom center console whose graceful sheer and distinctive Carolina flare have long been synonymous with the Davis brand. Known for its legendary ride, the Buddy Davis hull is designed to cut through...

Broker Insight: What’s the Market for Buddy Davis Sportfishing Boats? “I think that people who actually are looking for a classic Carolina sportfishing boat will find the Buddy Davis to be a more affordable choice than other boats out there. They’re fiberglass and...

Start a discussion about Carolina sport fishing boats and, nine times out of 10, the name Buddy Davis will come up. Davis’ name is legendary when it comes to sport fishing craft built to ply the rough-and-tumble waters. The first thing you’ll likely notice about the...

Under a low-hanging, leaden sky and dodging sheets of rain, we'd just finished our performance testing of the Davis 70 in the protected ICW off St. Lucie, Florida. Now we were headed out into the ocean for the real test. A cold front had bullied its way through a few...

As we were getting ready to take the new Davis 52 Express out for some testing in the sporty Atlantic, Bob Weidhaas said something that knocked my socks off. Weidhaas is the chief operating officer for Davis Yachts (as well as for Davis' parent company, Egg Harbor...

Nobody made a bigger mark on the industry back in the early days than the late Buddy Davis. The classic style of a North Carolina offshore sport fishing boat is easily recognizable by the sharp entry and exaggerated Bow Flair built for running the treacherous inlets...

Fishing is the boat’s focus, and it’s fishing-ready with rod storage, livewell, tackle-storage stations, fish box and wraparound coaming. Looks aren’t everything, but when classic good looks are married to splendid performance, you’ve got something special indeed. In...

The 2016 Buddy Davis 34 CC is a serious fishboat for serious anglers. First and foremost, you can now get this boat with triple outboards. The new model we saw at the Palm Beach International Boat Show sported three Yamaha V6 F300 outboards on the transom, with a...

Such exceptional performance is the product of exceptional design. Talk about a test of a boat’s agility! Albeit one I’d not recommend minus the vigilance of some onboard boat-handling experts, Buddy Davis himself being one and Davis’ right-hand man, Bobby Reece,...