In the heydays of the Pacific Northwest's salmon fishery, during the 1970's and early 80's a fleet of four hundred sportfishing charterboats plied the open waters off the outer coasts of Washington, Oregon and Northern California. This was a tough, very competitive business environment. The majority of these vessels were USCG certified for carrying passengers for hire on the open ocean. They operated daily out of treacherous bar ports like Westport, on Grays Harbor; Ilwaco, at the mouth of the mighty Columbia River; the sportfishing ports of San Francisco Bay; and many of the small harbors situated on the tricky coastal river entrances in between.

The Cadillacs of the fleet and the boat of choice by the professional charter captains was the famed Delta Marine Industries charterboat designed by Lynn Senour. If you ran a Delta, you ran the best - and were the most competitive! In 1998 Coastal Passagemaker acquired the molds for the entire line of Delta charterboats and combined the talents of well respected Seattle yacht designer, John Anderson and long time boat builder Dick Johnson of Fibercraft, Inc to produce the Coastal Passagemaker line based on the original USCG certified Delta charterboat hulls. Like the professionals of the Pacific Northwest's offshore charter fleet, if you run a Coastal Passagemaker - you run the best. The proven performance and the heritage of the offshore charter fleet is always with you.