The man looked pleased. “Great, great, you are early which is good. We will have her loaded and gassed up in about an hour. You just relax and we’ll finish getting her ready.”
The panga looked to be in decent shape. Pangas were unique to Central America. They were the workboat of every fisherman from Mexico on down. Built of fiberglass, they were usually painted in pastel colors with beautifully upward sloping bows and graceful lines. Normally, they were an open cockpit with a small center console just forward of the engines. This one had two outboards, both carrying 275-horsepower engines. Sometimes pangas had only one, and Cole was thankful this one had two motors in the event that one seized up on him. Both the outboards looked to be in good shape and newer than the panga itself.
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