TOURNAMENT PROGRAM EDITION
January 22—24, 2015 TOURNAMENT DETAILS & SCHEDULE FEATURED ARTIST HANK BUFKIN MEET OUR SPONSORS AND MORE!
BUC CUP NEWS
Special 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 Restaurant after which the fishing begins. Who will emerge victorious? Will the live baiters take it again this year or will the trollers prevail? So many questions will be answered and a good time will be had by all. Welcome aboard!
TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to the 52nd Annual BUCCANEER CUP Where Legends are Born
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SPONSOR PAGES See who is supporting this year’s tournament.
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Fishing Schedule, Rules and Prize Structure
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Real Time Scoring with REELTIME APPS. Get yours now.
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Meet Featured Artist HANK BUFKIN
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Longer Article Headline Subhead By: Gary Caputi
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START YOUR ENGINES for the 52nd Annual Buccaneer Cup!
he staff at the Buccaneer Cup, Fred Miller, Gary Caputi and Courtney Bowden, are looking forward to welcoming you at the captain’s meeting at the legendary 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 sponsoring the kick-off party.
generosity of our sponsors. It’s great to welcome back MTU after being away for some so long and we’re pleased to have Salt Life Optics aboard as a major
After two days of intense completion we will return to the Sailfish Club for the awards banquet. 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 fabulous 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 sponsor, too. Check out all the sponsors on the following pagengine display and say hello. es. Each logo is a link so click ’em Putting on a charity event like and let them know you apprecithis is impossible without the ate their involvement. JAN 2015
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The sailfish action has been picking up prior to the event. Could it portend great things for the Buc Cup? Possibly another record 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 interesting 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 participating in while benefiting two great organizations.
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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 SPONSORS the support of our many loyal sponsors. We extend our sinfor our benefactors, contestants and the Buc Cup legacy.
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Fishing Schedule - Rules - Prizes 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)
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, 2) Fishing Days - January 23 & 24, 2015. (No Lay is prohibited. Backing into schools and casting Day) from a dead boat are prohibited. 3) Fishing Hours - Lines in 8:00 AM. Lines out 13) No more than six rods are permitted in the 3:30 PM. water at any time. This includes rods being used 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.
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.
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 Catch Validation by 5:00 PM. 15) To qualify for points each release must be called in to the Tournament Committee incuding 6) Boats need fish only one day for tournament the angler's full name immediately by VHF radio to be official. or cell phone and be acknowledged with an as7) There is no weather committee. The determisigned catch number and official time of release. nation to fish is at the discretion of the captain Hook ups 15 minutes prior to the end of fishing and crew, who assume all liability for their decimust be called in for release after lines out to sions. qualify. 8) Certified Observers may be provided by the 16) A release is official when either the leader is tournament as available. touched by the mate or the leader is wound inside the rod tip.
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.
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17) Your entry into either tournament implies expressed 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.
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Point Structure & Scoring
$3000 Most Points Overall (50/30/20)
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.
$3000 Daily Points (60/40)
19) In case of a tie the winners will be determined by earliest release times. 20) Protests must be submitted to the Rules Committee in writing accompanied by a nonrefundable $500 filing fee no later than 5:00 PM. In all cases the decision of the Rules Committee is final.
$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)
General Requirements
$500 Biggest Meat Fish K D W (WTA)
21. Boats and anglers must comply with all state and federal fishing regulations and licensing requirements. Failure to do so may result in disqualification. All boats must carry appropriate liability insurance.
$500 Charity Category (Prize: Free Entry In Buccaneer Cup in 2016)
22. All boats must be a minimum of 27 feet LOA. The final determination of a boat’s eligibility 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
(85% payout - 15% donated to charities)
All participants, captains and crews in the Buccaneer Cup Sailfish Release 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 tournament.
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KEEP UP WITH THE COMPETITION WITH THE REEL 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.
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watch the tournament: iPhone, Android and Web apps.
he Buc Cup is again offering FREE Reel Time Scoring Apps to contestants and anyone else who wants to keep up with the action 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.
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 listing the boats entered. Real time scoring is in effect on the two fishing days, January 23 and 24.
App users can favorite a boat to receive push notifications 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
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For desktop web coverage or to learn more about how the phone apps work go to www.reeltimeapps.com
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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.
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I’ve had the good fortune to meet and get to know some fine marine artists, painters and the world of marine art there are only a sculptors alike, and there are many more whose few artists of whom it can be said are true origiwork I have seen, but not had the opportunity to nals. Hank Bufkin is a true original in every sense meet. With that said I have never seen anything of the words. quite like what Hank Bufkin does. He combines a painter’s eye with a sculptors three dimensional I first saw one of perception of subject Hank’s unique artto create a work that works a few years ago is totally unique. He at the Southern Kingaccomplishes it deftly fish Association’s Nawith an amazing nattional Championship ural talent that belies at the Golden Nugget the fact that he is toCasino and Resort in tally self-taught. With Biloxi, Mississippi. I was each successive work breezing past the venhe expands his dor displays on my knowledge and way to the RFA booth spreads his wings a when I was stopped little wider as he tries dead in my tracks by a new ways to work the large rendition of a metal using tools of king mackerel underhis own creation. water. The fish was realistic in a physiological way, but it was anything but typical. There was something in the medium the artist used that made it glow and exhibit subtle color shifts as you looked at it from different angles, sort of like the way light changes as it penetrates the surface 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.
Bufkin is a recently retired police detective who lives along the Gulf Coast of Alabama. He will tell you that he has been blessed with a God given gift, the ability to create artistic representations 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 This stunning original sailfish done on copper will world as seen be auctioned off at the Buc Cup awards dinner. through his eyes.
“How does he do that,” I asked a lady standing nearby who, it turned out, was Hank Bufkin’s wife and business 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 metal to create reflective surfaces and textures before he applied paint.”
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 threedimensional movement as well as true to life realism and that is why I work primarily on metal.” He has developed his own techniques that require hours of hand manipulating the surface of
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 appreciated, but if you click the image to enlarge it you will get an idea of how it looks. the metal. His “naked” etchings on copper and brass are stunning, but he also combines etched metal with painstakingly applied 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 directions 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 desires. 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 commissioned 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 fishing tournaments, memorials for fallen Police Officers, fine art galleries and private collectors. He has numerous corporate clients,
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 requests for original pieces on any subject matter and recently completed a tall ship under full sail etched in copper that is breathtaking in composition 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 ability 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.
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 requests for original pieces on any subject matter and recently completed a tall ship under full sail etched in copper that is breathtaking in composition and detail. He is happy to discuss ideas with clients and he encourages them to follow
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the progress of their artwork either in person or through emails and Facebook postings. "If you can imagine it, I can create it!”
Hank painting on a massive etched steel “canvas” bringing a coral reef scene to life.
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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!
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THE BUC CUP MEGA AUCTION 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 tables of wonderful items including trips, amazing art, tackle, sunglasses, adult beverages and more. They are all courtesy of our sponsors and supporters 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.
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
Hummingbird etched on copper
22x30 Framed original sailfish etched on solid copper.
Release Marine Step Box customized with the new 52nd Annual Buccaneer Cup logo.
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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 including Tito’s Vodka, Patrón Tequila and more!
Special Ladies Collection with jewelry, certificates to the Spa at Jupiter Resort, Restaurant Gift Certificates & More!
Baskets of Cheer from Papa’s Pilar Rum and Tito’s Handmade Vodka!
Heavy Duty Dredge from Elec-tra-Mate!
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