Reid Bandy is an expert in composite boatbuilding but he retains an admiration for classic wooden-hulled sportfishing boats, especially those carrying the Rybovich name.
Reid Bandy was a front-row art-class student in grade school who was captivated by lessons in perspective, scale, form, function, and sketching. He was also obsessed with boats, and his drawings looked like Rybovich sportfishing yachts. “I don’t think I had ever seen a Rybo in person,” he says. “It’s just what I thought a cool boat should look like—the broken sheer, trunk cabin, outriggers, and tournament cockpit.”