Red Rooster III
Lee Palm Sportfishers has been running long range sportfishing adventures for nearly forty years. Our current vessel, the Red Rooster III, is the fifth in a line of succession — a custom aluminum yacht built exclusively for long range sportfishing, measuring 105 feet in length.
The Red Rooster III features sixteen private air-conditioned staterooms with hot and cold water wash basins, carpeting, storage, comfortable berths, reading lights and electrical outlets. The spacious main salon offers a large oval couch and a wet bar with two ice makers, and the vessel is served by five heads and five fresh hot-water showers.
Built to fish, she carries large refrigerated fish holds, a four-compartment live bait tank on the stern plus two below-deck bait slammers, and a tremendous amount of fishing and rail space.
She runs 3 Scania engines producing 1800 horsepower, and two John Deere 4045T Tier 3 diesel generators delivering 100 kW of power. With an eighteen-thousand gallon fuel capacity, the Red Rooster III can run from San Diego to the Hawaiian Islands and back on a single fueling.
Navigation and fish-finding electronics include computerized color-enhanced omni-directional scanning sonar, dual GPS units, Furuno 64-mile radar with plotter, satellite imaging and satellite phone. The vessel is inspected annually by the American Bureau of Shipping and the U.S. Coast Guard for integrity and stability.