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Maritimo 550
By Jon Meade
When Aussie charter-boat skippers head into the wide Coral Sea, where giant black marlin weighing more than 1,000 pounds roam, they need total confidence in the hull beneath their feet. Maritimo, Australia's award-winning boatbuilder, understands those needs and created a modern hull that offers skippers and crews an ideal game-fishing platform.
Maritimo's U.S. dealer, Yacht Blue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will debut two versions of the superb Maritimo 550 — one with an open flybridge, the other featuring an enclosed bridge — at the 2009 Miami International Boat Show in February.
The reputation of Maritimo's CEO, Bill Barry-Cotter, went a long way toward getting these two boats ready for the competitive sport-fishing market. Recognized throughout the South Pacific as one of Australia's premier big-boat designer/builders, Barry-Cotter initially won fame as the founder of The Riviera Group, which he sold to a combined management/investment group in 2002. In 2005, Barry-Cotter enhanced his standing in the boatbuilding world, establishing the Maritimo company by virtue of its inaugural model, the Maritimo 60, and winning Australia's 2005 Boat of the Year crown in the process. The boat went on to earn rave reviews from both American and international consumers and marine journalists.
Design and Performance
Although built on the other side of the vast Pacific Ocean, American buyers have no fear that they're looking at a "foreign" vessel. Maritimo builds to American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC) standards and relies on proven diesel power from Caterpillar. Maritimo builds with cored fiberglass topsides, decks and house.
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