Storytellers
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The people who run our boats where it counts. Real owners, real water, real days on the poling platform and the beach — telling the story better than any brochure could.
Meet the Storytellers
Rob Arrington
Justin Menendez
Capt. Alex Heim
Tanner Severt
Capt. Max McKinley
Capt. Kevin McCabe
Rob Arrington
Rob and Sarah Arrington built Deer Meat For Dinner on a simple idea: harvest your own food and share the whole story, from the water to the table. Millions of people follow along.
Their nearshore boat is an East Cape 25 Open they named the Lali 1. It runs the beach out of Ponce Inlet, chases cobia, and carries the family on the days when the plan is to catch dinner and cook it that night.
If you are looking at a 25 Open as a do-everything nearshore boat, this is what that life actually looks like.
You can fish the Lali 1. When Rob isn't filming, Capt. Liam Garvey runs charters on the boat out of Ponce Inlet — see him in the Guide Network.
Justin Menendez
Justin started where a lot of Florida anglers start — a budget hull and a stretch of dock lights. He learned the water the hard way, one snook at a time, and built an audience doing it.
Now he runs an East Cape 18 EVO V. The same shallow-water instincts, with more range. He fishes it the way his viewers want to fish: poling the flats at first light, then running the beach for whatever is chewing, sometimes twenty-plus miles offshore in a boat most people would never take there.
That arc — from a first skiff to a boat built for the long run — is the same decision a lot of first-time East Cape buyers are working through.
Proof, not a pitch
Real owners
Every Storyteller owns and runs the boat. No paid actors, no staged days. The credibility is the point.
See yourself in it
First-time buyers picture their own boat through someone else's real season on the water.
Then build yours
Every profile points to the boat they run and into the Builder, so the story ends where yours starts.