buc cup news - january 2015
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Official Tournament Program 52nd Buccaneer Cup Sailfish Release TournamentTRANSCRIPT
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TOURNAMENT PROGRAM EDITION
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BUC CUP NEWS Special Tournament Program EditionSpecial Tournament Program EditionSpecial Tournament Program Edition
Ladies and gentlemen Start Your Engines! Well not quite yet, but in a few days all the preparation comes to an end with the Captain’s Meeting and party at the Buccaneer Restau-rant after which the fishing be-gins. Who will emerge victori-ous? Will the live baiters take it again this year or will the trollers prevail? So many ques-tions will be answered and a good time will be had by all. Welcome aboard!
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Welcome to the 52nd
Annual BUCCANEER CUP
Where Legends are Born
Pg. 5
SPONSOR PAGES
See who is supporting this
year’s tournament.
Pg. 8-9
Fishing Schedule, Rules
and Prize Structure
Pg. 12-13
Real Time Scoring with
REELTIME APPS. Get yours
now.
Pg. 15
Meet Featured Artist
HANK BUFKIN
Pg. 16
BUC CUP MEGA AUCTION Pg. 25
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Longer Article Headline
Subhead
By: Gary Caputi
T he staff at the Bucca-
neer Cup, Fred Miller,
Gary Caputi and Court-
ney Bowden, are looking for-
ward to welcoming you at the
captain’s meeting at the legend-
ary Buccaneer Cup Restaurant.
We would like to thank the folks
at Sailfish Marina for allowing us
to use our namesake facility and
a tip of the hat to Viking Yachts
and HMY Yacht Sales for spon-
soring the kick-off party.
After two days of intense com-
pletion we will return to the Sail-
fish Club for the awards ban-
quet. The history in that building
is so thick you can cut it with a
knife and speaking of knives you
can expect to enjoy their fabu-
lous seafood buffet and two
hours of open bar thanks to
MTU and the company’s East
Coast distributors Florida Detroit
Diesel Allison and Johnson and
Towers. Be sure to stop by their
engine display and say hello.
Putting on a charity event like
this is impossible without the
generosity of our sponsors. It’s
great to welcome back MTU af-
ter being away for some so long
and we’re pleased to have Salt
Life Optics aboard as a major
sponsor, too. Check out all the
sponsors on the following pag-
es. Each logo is a link so click ’em
and let them know you appreci-
ate their involvement.
The sailfish action has been pick-
ing up prior to the event. Could
it portend great things for the
Buc Cup? Possibly another rec-
ord year of releases? That waits
to be seen. We all recognize the
rivalry between the live bait fliers
and the dead bait trollers. In the
past eight years live and dead
bait boats have proven they can
take the top prize and Calcutta
money pretty much on an equal
basis. Last year, with the main
body of sails still well north of
Fort Worth Inlet, in an area
where trollers usually prevail, the
Miss Annie won the tournament
fishing live bait! It will be inter-
esting to see how things stack
up this year.
Fred, Gary and Courtney wish all
of you the best of luck in the
52nd Annual Buccaneer Cup
Sailfish Release Tournament and
while not everyone can win we
will strive to make it a first class
event that you will enjoy partici-
pating in while benefiting two
great organizations.
START YOUR ENGINES
for the 52nd Annual Buccaneer Cup!
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52nd BUCCANEER CUP 52nd BUCCANEER CUP 52nd BUCCANEER CUP It would be impossible to put on the Buccaneer Cup without
cere thanks for all they do to make this tournament possible
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CORPORATE SPONSORSCORPORATE SPONSORSCORPORATE SPONSORS the support of our many loyal sponsors. We extend our sin-
for our benefactors, contestants and the Buc Cup legacy.
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General Information
1) January 22, 2015 (6 PM) – Captain’s Meeting: Buccaneer Yacht Club, 1281 N. Ocean Drive, Singer Island, FL 33404 (Registration/Calcutta Entry 4 to 6 PM)
2) Fishing Days - January 23 & 24, 2015. (No Lay Day)
3) Fishing Hours - Lines in 8:00 AM. Lines out 3:30 PM.
4) Boundaries: From 27.30.00 latitude (Ft. Pierce Inlet area) to 26.02.00 latitude (Ft. Lauderdale Inlet area) and no further offshore than 072.50 longitude.
5) Boats may leave from Lake Worth or Jupiter Inlets no earlier than 6:30 AM and must return catch logs to Sailfish Marina or Castaway Marina by 5:00 PM.
6) Boats need fish only one day for tournament to be official.
7) There is no weather committee. The determi-nation to fish is at the discretion of the captain and crew, who assume all liability for their deci-sions.
8) Certified Observers may be provided by the tournament as available.
Fishing Regulations
9) I.G.F.A. Rules apply except as follows.
10) Only non-offset circle hooks and maximum 20-lb. test line may be used.
11) Double lines cannot be longer than 15 feet and the combined length of a double line and leader shall not exceed 20 feet.
12) Live or dead baits may be used, but only one type of bait is permitted in the water at any time. Chumming of any kind, including with live bait, is prohibited. Backing into schools and casting from a dead boat are prohibited.
13) No more than six rods are permitted in the water at any time. This includes rods being used to catch bait.
14) No more than two kites for live bait and no more than two teasers or dredges for trolling are permitted. Live bait teasers are prohibited.
Catch Validation
15) To qualify for points each release must be called in to the Tournament Committee incuding the angler's full name immediately by VHF radio or cell phone and be acknowledged with an as-signed catch number and official time of release. Hook ups 15 minutes prior to the end of fishing must be called in for release after lines out to qualify.
16) A release is official when either the leader is touched by the mate or the leader is wound in-side the rod tip.
17) Your entry into either tournament implies ex-pressed approval that you and all anglers and crew members will submit to a polygraph test if requested by the rules committee. Failure to do will result in disqualification.
Fishing Schedule - Rules - Prizes
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Point Structure & Scoring
18) Release points will be awarded as follows: 200 points for sailfish on live bait. 300 point for sailfish on dead bait. 400 points for marlin on either bait. 19) In case of a tie the winners will be deter-mined by earliest release times.
20) Protests must be submitted to the Rules Committee in writing accompanied by a non-refundable $500 filing fee no later than 5:00 PM. In all cases the decision of the Rules Committee is final.
General Requirements
21. Boats and anglers must comply with all state and federal fishing regulations and li-censing requirements. Failure to do so may result in disqualification. All boats must carry appropriate liability insurance.
22. All boats must be a minimum of 27 feet LOA. The final determination of a boat’s eligi-bility will be at the discretion of the Rules Committee.
CASH PRIZES
$5,000 for most points live bait.
$5,000 for most points dead bait.
Added Entry Levels (Calcuttas)
Overall Categories
$5000 Most Points Overall (WTA)
$3000 Most Points Overall (50/30/20)
$3000 Daily Points (60/40)
$1500 Most Billfish Released (60/40)
Live Bait Categories
$2000 Most Points Live Bait Daily (60/40)
$2000 Most Points Live Bait Overall (WTA)
Dead Bait Categories
$2000 Most Points Dead Bait Daily (60/40)
$2000 Most Points Dead Bait Overall (WTA)
General Categories
$250 Top Angler (WTA)
$500 Biggest Meat Fish K D W (WTA)
$500 Charity Category (Prize: Free Entry In Buccaneer Cup in 2016)
(85% payout - 15% donated to chari-ties)
All participants, captains and crews in the Buccaneer Cup Sailfish Re-lease Tournament enter at their own risk. Committee members and all other persons connected directly or indirectly with the operation of the tournaments shall be exempt from any liability for loss, damage, negligence, harm or injury to any participant, boat captain, crew member, vessel and/or equipment, which may occur during the tour-nament.
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T he Buc Cup is again offering
FREE Reel Time Scoring Apps to contestants and anyone else who wants to keep up with the ac-tion as it happens in this year’s tournament. . Reel Time Apps are easy to use with an intuitive design that allows even novice users to easily navigate the available information. App users can favorite a boat to receive push no-tifications in real time when a boat releases a fish. Participants and fans can view and send pictures from the app. If you or someone on the boat takes great photos you may send them to the tournament director to be included in the app. Whether you are on the go or at your desk, there are 3 ways to
watch the tournament: iPhone, Android and Web apps. To download the REEL TIME Scoring App for the Buccaneer Cup go to the App Store on your phone and enter Buccaneer Cup 2015 in the search window. When it comes up download and install the app. The download is free. The service goes live Monday, January 19 list-ing the boats entered. Real time scoring is in effect on the two fish-ing days, January 23 and 24. For desktop web cover-age or to learn more about how the phone apps work go to www.reeltimeapps.com
KEEP UP WITH THE KEEP UP WITH THE COMPETITION WITH THECOMPETITION WITH THE REEL TIME SCORING APPREEL TIME SCORING APP
You always know where you stand during the Buc
Cup when you download the free REEL TIME live
scoring app to your smart phone or tablet.
The Amazing Art of
HANK BUFKIN
This year’s featured artist—Hank Bufkin—is sure to amaze you with his unique style and boundless talent.
In the world of marine art there are only a few artists of whom it can be said are true origi-nals. Hank Bufkin is a true original in every sense of the words.
I first saw one of Hank’s unique art-works a few years ago at the Southern King-fish Association’s Na-tional Championship at the Golden Nugget Casino and Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi. I was breezing past the ven-dor displays on my way to the RFA booth when I was stopped dead in my tracks by a large rendition of a king mackerel under-water. The fish was re-alistic in a physiologi-cal way, but it was an-ything but typical. There was something in the medium the art-ist used that made it glow and exhibit sub-tle color shifts as you looked at it from differ-ent angles, sort of like the way light changes as it penetrates the sur-face of a shifting sea. It was mesmerizing and from the crowd at the display it was obvious I wasn’t the only person who thought so.
“How does he do that,” I asked a lady standing nearby who, it turned out, was Hank Bufkin’s wife and busi-ness manager Susan. “Hank uses metal for his canvas, in this piece steel,” she told me. “He starts by etching and texturing the image into the met-al to create reflective surfaces and textures before he applied paint.”
I’ve had the good fortune to meet and get to know some fine marine artists, painters and sculptors alike, and there are many more whose work I have seen, but not had the opportunity to meet. With that said I have never seen anything quite like what Hank Bufkin does. He combines a painter’s eye with a sculptors three dimensional
perception of subject to create a work that is totally unique. He accomplishes it deftly with an amazing nat-ural talent that belies the fact that he is to-tally self-taught. With each successive work he expands his knowledge and spreads his wings a little wider as he tries new ways to work the metal using tools of his own creation.
Bufkin is a recently retired police detec-tive who lives along the Gulf Coast of Ala-bama. He will tell you that he has been blessed with a God given gift, the ability to create artistic repre-sentations of what he has seen as a lifelong fisherman, hunter and an avid diver. His love and respect for nature spurs his passion for his work and enables him to express the beauty of the natural world as seen through his eyes.
Hank combines that deep and abiding love of nature with his critical eye for detail in each one of the stunning pieces he fashions. “My desire is to create three-dimensional movement as well as true to life real-ism and that is why I work primarily on metal.” He has developed his own techniques that require hours of hand manipulating the surface of
This stunning original sailfish done on copper will
be auctioned off at the Buc Cup awards dinner.
the metal. His “naked” etchings on copper and brass are stunning, but he also com-bines etched metal with painstakingly ap-plied acrylics to create full color pieces that dance under different lighting effects. For that reason it is impossible to capture the true beauty of his work with a camera. Shoot it a dozen times from different direc-tions with varying light sources and you get a dozen surprisingly different images, one more striking than the next. His work has to be seen to experience the way it comes to life. Because he utilizes metal for his canvas he applies numerous protective coatings to prevent tarnish and weather damage which means his work can be displayed inside or outside depending on the purchaser’s de-sires.
Expanding his creative expression into new
vistas, Hank recently began crafting custom tables and wall frames of various woods, some finished and others in their natural state, with his metal art imbedded. These pieces are equally at home displayed in a house, a place of business or on yachts of all kinds. Imagine one of his beautiful tables on the mezzanine overlooking the cockpit of your boat or a framed custom commis-sioned piece hanging in the salon. Hank carefully researches each project so that every aspect is true to the subject at hand and his dedication to detail is described by many of his clients as "living works of art."
Hank has created commissioned artwork for business owners, restaurants, national fish-ing tournaments, memorials for fallen Police Officers, fine art galleries and private collec-tors. He has numerous corporate clients,
Bufkin’s homage to Hemmingway’s Old Man and the Sea—One Long Night—captures the old
man’s determination as he fights his great fish into the darkness. This has to seen to be appre-
ciated, but if you click the image to enlarge it you will get an idea of how it looks.
but one he is most proud of is a stunning 4' x 8' life size jaguar titled The Guardian that he did for the University of South Alabama in Mobile. Although Hank prefers to create artwork that celebrates nature, he welcomes re-quests for original pieces on any subject matter and recently completed a tall ship under full sail etched in copper that is breathtaking in composi-tion and detail. He is happy to discuss ideas with clients and he encourages them to follow the progress of their artwork either in person or through emails and Facebook postings. "If you can imagine it, I can create it!”
Hank has donated two amazing original pieces for the silent auction at this year’s Buccaneer Cup. The first is a 22” X 30” sailfish etched on copper and framed with a retail value of $4800. The second is a surprise and sure to garner a lot of interest from the ladies in attendance at the Awards Banquet, where you will be able to meet Hank and Susan and view other pieces of his work at a mini show. They will also be displaying at the Captain’s Meeting so stop by, say hello and prepare to be amazed!
His tall ship advancing out of the sunrise reveals his talent for the dramatic as well as his abil-
ity to capture the most intricate details.
Hank and Susan recently began carefully inlaying his art into hard to find exotic hardwoods
obtained from cypress swamps creating one-of-a-kind furniture at home indoors or outdoors.
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but one he is most proud of is a stun-ning 4' x 8' life size jaguar titled The Guardian that he did for the Uni-versity of South Alabama in Mo-bile. Although Hank prefers to create artwork that celebrates nature, he welcomes requests for original pieces on any subject matter and recently com-pleted a tall ship un-der full sail etched in copper that is breathtaking in com-position and detail. He is happy to dis-cuss ideas with cli-ents and he encour-ages them to follow
the progress of their artwork either in person or through emails and Facebook post-ings. "If you can imagine it, I can create it!”
Hank has donated two amazing original pieces for the silent auction at this year’s Buccaneer Cup. The first is a 22” X 30” sailfish etched on copper and framed with a retail value of $4800. The second is a sur-prise and sure to garner a lot of interest from the ladies in attendance at the Awards Banquet, where you will be able to meet Hank and Su-san and view other pieces of his work at a mini show. They will also be displaying at the Captain’s Meeting so stop by, say hello and pre-pare to be amazed!
Hank painting on a massive etched steel
“canvas” bringing a coral reef scene to life.
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O ne of the highlights of the Awards Dinner is the Silent Auction and
this year promises to be a very special one, indeed! There will be ta-
bles of wonderful items including trips, amazing art, tackle, sunglasses,
adult beverages and more. They are all courtesy of our sponsors and sup-
porters who donate to benefit the Recreational Fishing Alliance and the
Florida Fish for Life Cancer Fund so we ask that you bid generously and
wish you luck in getting the items you want. While we don’t have room to
list everything, here are some of the highlights.
THE BUC CUP THE BUC CUP
MEGA AUCTIONMEGA AUCTION
Billfish and Duck Hunt
at the fabulous LOS RANCHOS LODGE
in Guatemala
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Two original artworks
by our Featured Artist
Hank Bufkin
22x30 Framed original sailfish
etched on solid copper.
Release Marine
Step Box customized with the new
52nd Annual Buccaneer
Cup logo.
Hummingbird etched on copper
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Twelve Pair Salt Life sunglasses with Zeiss Lenses for the
best vision you’ve ever had on the water or ashore!
One pair of triple holder rod clusters from our friends
at Bausch American Towers. See them in action
aboard the Freedom and 39 Venture during the
52nd Buccaneer Cup.
Three Certificates good for Two Gallons of the Micron
Bottom Paint of your choice courtesy Interlux.
Accompanying Certificates for application of paint by Viking
Service Center in Riviera Beach.
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Rods and Reels Courtesy Shimano,
OceanMax, Tsunami & TFO
OHO Bag filled with line, leader and rigging
products form AFW/Hi-Seas!
Two Engel Coolers stuffed with goodies includ-
ing Tito’s Vodka, Patrón Tequila and more!
Special Ladies Collection with jewelry, certifi-
cates to the Spa at Jupiter Resort, Restaurant
Gift Certificates & More!
Baskets of Cheer from Papa’s Pilar Rum and Ti-
to’s Handmade Vodka!
Heavy Duty Dredge from Elec-tra-Mate!
AND MORE—MUCH, MUCH MORE!
