photo © jon schwartz


I got an email update from Jon Schwartz, the photographer who snapped a blue marlin as it rammed the press boat at the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament in Kona.


He typed a short message: “Pete, the story gets better.”


He and the other media types on the press boat took part in a battle to tag and release a 700-pound blue marlin. I don’t know how the rest of the tournament went, but this has to rank as maybe the all-time most awesome press boat ever to be aboard.


Written by: Pete McDonald
Pete McDonald is a contributing editor to Power & Motoryacht. Previously, he spent 11 years on the editorial staff of Boating. He has won multiple writing awards and holds a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.