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Subject: TWL: RE: Trailerable Trawler List
From: Kim Boyce and Eric Thoman (kimeric@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Jan 05 2003 - 22:48:20 EST
Michael Schooley wrote:
"I get so many questions about trailerable trawlers and requests to
recommend trailerable trawlers that I decided to add a "frequently asked
questions" "
I have mentioned before that Kim and I had many years of trailer/boating and
we would not go back to that if it were the only boat left on earth. When I
read the list of trailerable boats and I saw a Nordic Tug 32 I laughed out
loud! I would positively be divorced by now.
I can tell story after story of nightmares on boat ramps with a Bayliner 24.
It was less than 10,000 lbs.
We owned a Nordic Tug 32 and had it professionally transported once. It was
also a nightmare. A broker talked us into it at his expense. The
preparation work was unbelievable as was the work required upon arrival.
The road filth alone is incredible. Everything was shaken apart. I doubt
that boats are engineered to handle road vibrations (I am not an engineer
but then neither is Michael Kasten!)
Storing a Nordic Tug 32 on a 50 foot flat bed trailer may be cheaper than in
the water depending on where you live. Many neighborhoods would not look
favorably on this. Working on a Nordic Tug 32 out of the water would not be
easy unless you had scaffolding along side. Even with a Bayliner it was
difficult to get tools and materials up and down that ladder.
Is any one out there doing this?
What is the largest boat folks have "trailered"?
Often wrong but never in doubt,
Eric Thoman
Abyssinia www.seanet.com/~kimeric
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