Bio

USCG Cap­tain, Peter Mur­phy, Law & Order Charters

SO! Not sure if you believe in the sig­nif­i­cance of your birth sign, well I sure do ! As a Pieces, I can look back to my early child­hood when I would lay awake at night in antic­i­pa­tion of spend­ing my sum­mer at Marshfield’s Rex­hame Beach ! Most of each day was spent swim­ming, surf­ing div­ing off Bea­tle rock, snor­kel­ing and sim­ply enjoy­ing the ocean. The big­ger the waves, the rougher the seas, the bet­ter I liked it. Hur­ri­canes and Nor’Easters were just icing on my cake ! Body surf­ing in pow­er­ful crash­ing waves left many a bump,scar or abra­sion over time. On rainy days I would spend hours in muddy pud­dles float­ing a fleet of toy boats I accu­mu­lated from my dream store “Wind­ships”, once located up on the Bluff in Field­ston next to Saint Ann By the Sea, some years back.…

I was always fas­ci­nated with being on the water and then came fish­ing on our 17 ft. wooden Thomp­son and 35 ft. Sea Horse John­son bought at Ded­ham Sports­mans Cen­ter from Ed Thomas and fam­ily. I caught many a blue­fish trolling off Monomoy Island in the early 60’s. We would toss bot­tles of pork rines up to the crew sta­tioned on Stone Horse Light­ship when we were in between fish. From a moor­ing in Bass River we steam to and anchor up in Wych­mere Har­bor beside the once famous Thompson’s Snow Inn & Clam Bar. After a sound sleep on an air mat­tress we were up at first light with a feed of bacon & eggs going on the alco­hol stove. Off to Monomoy we’d go, often in huge ground swells from pass­ing storms to the east. Those two weeks liv­ing on that boat went way too fast for me. Storms have changed the pris­tine Monomoy sea scape over the years and the light­ship is gone. Seals and Great Whites are seen fre­quently in those waters now as we run off­shore for Tuna.

I was only ten and still vividly remem­ber meet­ing a real fish­er­man named Bub East­man. He kept a .30 .30 up on the bridge of his Downeaster as he would tell , ” to keep the damn sharks off my Swords”. He would often tie up in Bass River next to our boat between Sword trips. Sword­fish were his game and he had dozens mounted down below in his boat. I met a friend of his last year at Bass River Marine last win­ter while actu­ally look­ing at downeast boats. I was sorry to learn that Bub has passed on. But his legacy is well remem­bered in those parts for sure, and will be as long as we remem­ber to tell the many sto­ries going back in time.

As you can tell by now, I never lost my pas­sion for the water and bought my sec­ond boat, once again, from Ded­ham Sports­mans Cen­ter. Pieces II was a 25 ft. cuddy fish­er­man with an IO. So fish we did in the 80’s and 90’s! No GPS in those days, just a com­pass and off we’d be for Martha’s Vine­yard and Nan­tucket ! I Lost that boat tied to the piers in Sci­t­u­ate in the famous “No Name” aka “per­fect Storm” of Hal­loween eve, 1991. Although fam­ily demands and col­lege edu­ca­tions slowed me down, I boat hopped every chance I got, and guess what ?

Years have slipped away and the boats keep get­ting big­ger still ! Now I run a fully rigged 31 Cabo Express, Mar­lin Tower, 700 HP twin Diesel out of Sci­t­u­ate Har­bor, LAW & ORDER CHARTERS. Recently my son char­tered three boats to the Vine­yard for the Annual Mon­ster Shark Tour­na­ment with a great crew of friends from Toronto Canada. “Law & Order” weighed in 6^th out of one hun­dred plus boats with a 429 pound Thresher !

Some­body has to do it, fish­ing and being out there with the whales is get­ting it done! I love it more than ever and I do it full time now that I am retired from a career in Law Enforce­ment, hence the boat name “Law and Order”.

You are invited to jump aboard Law & Order for a fun day of off­shore fish­ing. And last but not least, always remem­ber this;

“four to eight is always bet­ter than nine to five”…

Cap­tain Pete Murphy