There are 2 mysterious custom rigs that I keep catching blips of info on but havent seen any reviews or pictures to judge by.

1) Aucoin

2) Brother Breaux

I am in the market for a 1754ish sized rig with high transom, open floor, pointed bow, tapered chine. I am leaning towards a 1754 GTB but want to know more about these rigs before I decide. My distance from LA makes going to put my hands on all of them pretty tough. So I am looking for any pictures or info you have that could show me what these guys do that sets them apart. I would also like to hear about your boats, what you like, dislike, approx costs, etc.

"show them to me". (Coastal, feel free to add more calendar shoot pics if you like.)

Either Rick or Brother can build you whatever you like and I can promise you wont be disappointed with eithers product, craftmanship or customer service.

go to the review section, look up :

18/48 aucoin skiff w/ 32 mods
and
18/48 brother skiff w/ 36 mods

thats me and gatorpoints boats.. one by aucoin one by brother. just to give u a comparison of the two. and they do both build bateaus too.. check out mitchskes 18/52 aucoin bateau and maxxis 85 brother bateau.

Coondik, mitchskeeesseee, paul darensbourg, D.T., soon to be swampsnyper and others have Aucoin bateaus. Basinhunter, ju10inla, have Aucoin skiffs.

Me, Stumpgrinder, benelliman, tchredneck have Brother skiffs.
Maxxis85, Jwales, soon to be full throttle have Brother bateaus.

t mac got a brother skiff too

I dont have a review on this forum, but i do on the other.....

What everyone said is correct, the work is excellent and the attention to detail is... well you cant match it.

Either way you will like the rig.

Just curious, but are all of these one piece hulls now?

negative mitch, they are all 3 peice.......transom, sides, bottom....etc

1848 Aucoin Skiff

I can't post pics cause I am at work, but here is a link to some pics of my Aucoin 1848 bateau.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1786

Here are a few of my 1848 Brother skiff.

There is a reason RDR makes love to his Aucoin hull. They be the mostest sexy. X

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1610

my review

I know nothing about either one of these builders but I do know that Oh Brother, Where art thou? is one of my favorite flicks of all time.

Carry on........

1852 Aucoin bateau

Yah i do. Well i say that. Ill get some today after work. Ill post up then.

Here's my 1848 Brother Breaux...more pics in the review forum under
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=626

If you go with either one of these builders, you get numbers that are atleast as good as
a comparable size from a big manufacturer.... and their boats are really nice to look at.
They both do an excellent job in my opinion!

If you go with either one of these builders, you get numbers that are atleast as good as
a comparable size from a big manufacturer.... and their boats are really nice to look at.
They both do an excellent job in my opinion!

If you go with either one of these builders, you get numbers that are atleast as good as
a comparable size from a big manufacturer.... and their boats are really nice to look at.
They both do an excellent job in my opinion!

What did you say Crews???

I think you need to post it a couple more times for people to understand

If you go with either one of these builders, you get numbers that are atleast as good as
a comparable size from a big manufacturer.... and their boats are really nice to look at.

If you go with either one of these builders, you get numbers that are atleast as good as
a comparable size from a big manufacturer.... and their boats are really nice to look at.
They both do an excellent job in my opinion!


If you go with either one of these builders, you get numbers that are atleast as good as
a comparable size from a big manufacturer.... and their boats are really nice to look at.
They both do an excellent job in my opinion!

My 2054 Breaux Bateau should be done next week. I will post an extensive review once I've had some time to test it out!

The one piece hull,quality of welds,bracing and the flare he puts on the sides really sold me. Ricky builds a great boat as well. You can't go wrong with either one.

Here is my 1748 Brother Breaux bateau.

Aucoin skiff is my next boat if I could just get a price. I sent him a PM and called with no answer. Sure he is super busy. .....Jessie

pm sent jessie

Just keep leaving a message, he'll get back to you. That man doesn't know anything but bone crushing hard work. You won't catch him in the office by the phone.

Told Ya!!!

18 x 48 Aucoin Hull

lol MAT THAT IS A BRIGHT AZZ BOAT

Its a fishing rig, so I figured what the hell, lets be different.

I bit the bullet and order my new hull today.

It is an 1854 Aucoin, pointed bow, 3/16" bottom, smooth floor w/ gutters (no dang anklebreakers), short deck w/ a hatch and an extension and a deck drain, one seat pod, grab handle, trolling motor plate, two standard drain plugs and fully rigged out.

I picked up a nice trailer last week and an 08' 35 GTR w/ 17 hours today. I've got my natgear hydroturf on order and now I just got to decide about the paint job. Made my mind up on natgear but I aint decided if I want to get a base coat from Ricky's guy and add the pattern myself or just pay Camo-designs to do the whole thing from bare metal up. I think I just want the outside and the motor done since Im gonna hydroturf the inside anyway.

yeah i too called ricky sometime last week and put myself on the list. not sure what size yet, and still figureing out the inside layout a bit...was once waiting for him to build a boat for me and it got all fd up with the coast guard, ima b damn if he slide through my fingers again lol.................been wishin he built me a boat ever since

Looks like its ready for me to pick up Matt!!