On the water
since 2012.
One borrowed bay boat became five private charter boats, 24,500 guests and a dock logbook that fills a new page every season. The formula never changed: your group, your boat, a captain who reads water like newsprint.
guests welcomed aboard since we started in 2012
of harbor half-day trips hook up
group charters last season
of blue-water trips boat a mahi-mahi or bigger
The crew at slip 14.
Captain Hollis Pryor founded Driftwood with a 22-foot bay boat and a tide chart. Fourteen years and a 100-ton license later, he still runs the dawn Harbor Half Day and still writes the week's departure board by hand every Monday at 5 AM.
Captain June Okafor runs the reef boats — eight seasons, two thousand reef drops, and the harbor's best record on big amberjack. Captain Rey Maldonado drives the blue water program and has released fourteen billfish.
Mara Ellison plans every private charter: dates, headcounts, boats side by side, fish fries. If you've emailed the dock office, you've met Mara.
How we run a boat
- Private groups only — never mixed parties
- Licensed captains, insured boats, checked daily
- Circle hooks and clean releases on sharks
- Legal fish only — the mate tracks every limit
- Weather calls are ours, refunds are instant
Come meet the dock.
88 Marina Walk, Slip 14. Coffee's on from 5 AM — or start with the trip that fits your crew.