Vintage Bertram Models

In 1961, Dick Bertram and C. Raymond Hunt launched the 31 Bahia Mar on a brand-new deep-V hull and promptly won the Miami-to-Nassau ocean race in punishing seas. Overnight, every serious offshore boat was redesigned. The Bahia Mar didn't just define Bertram — it redefined what a small ocean-going boat could do.

Named after Dick Bertram's wife, the original 25-foot Moppie was the boat that won the 1960 Miami-to-Nassau race and convinced the world that Ray Hunt's deep-V hull was the future. Everything classic Bertram is descended from this boat.

The Sport Fisherman wasn't a radically different boat from the Flybridge Cruiser — it was the same hull, the same deep-V, often the same accommodations. The differences were small: a cockpit and helm tuned a little more toward fishing, rod holders where there might have been a cushion, an arrangement that just made more sense with a day of trolling in mind.

The Flybridge Cruiser variants took the proven Bertram deep-V and added a real upstairs helm, a full sleeping cabin, and the kind of weather protection that turned a sportfish into a family weekender. From the compact 28 to the larger 38, every length wore the same purposeful Bertram lines.

The Convertible is the Bertram silhouette most people picture when they hear the name: a real salon below, a flybridge above, and a working cockpit aft — equally at home trolling for marlin or anchored off a beach for the weekend.