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The boat

The Miss Trial

Slow enough to make the ride last, loud enough to announce it, and named after a courtroom story best left mostly untold.

Miss Trial emblem with skull, wheel, crossed billfish, and Cocodrie, Louisiana ribbon.
A 33-foot Invincible

The long way to an empty fish box.

The Miss Trial is Stephen Babcock’s 33-foot Invincible that we use to ferry ourselves to and from our embarrassingly unproductive fishing spots. The boat was originally going to be called Sea Trial, but the name was changed to Miss Trial after a trial gone awry with a Baton Rouge judge who shall remain nameless.

The Miss Trial is terribly ugly, slow, loud, uncomfortable, and inefficient. This means the fuel bills are astronomical, and the fish boxes are always empty, but the good news is that because it’s so slow, you can spend more time riding in the boat and less time being frustrated that we don’t know how to catch fish in it.

Length

33 feet

Builder

Invincible

Nine guests with a red snapper catch beside the Miss Trial at the dock.
A dockside catch with the Miss Trial.

Carried forward from the original Miss Trial page.