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From: Bob Clinkenbeard (no email)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 10:54:38 EST
If you only purchase one boat in your life, you will be the first!
Everything you propose, someone has done in every type of boat there is out
there. Your willingness to learn and your learned abilities, including
financial ability to support the vessel, will determine what works best for
you.
Your plan is aggressive and can work to some extent but lacking any
experience on the water is going to be more of an issue, I believe, than
comparing it to learning to drive a car. I am sure more will chime in as
your tread progresses on this.
A trawler is a good choice for economy. The length will be determined of
course by your specific uses as you noted....I don't believe 36' will
accommodate your needs. Sounds more like 40' to 50' range to me.
My advice would be to buy a boat and use it now.....whatever you can afford
to gain experience on the water.
You can't learn what you will need to know, only, in a class room.
Good luck and enjoy the journey to your goals.
PS. Another tip...study hull types.
Bob Clinkenbeard
Custom Roughwater 41' Trawler
"Bobbin Along"
http://www.dreamwater.org/captainbob/
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have this project aimed at procuring myself a trawler boat in the next
> few
> years.
>
> I am still at the phase during which I try to determine what I want in a
> boat, in order for me to
> determine the budget I need.
>
> The goal here, is to make it a family live-aboard for week-ends and
> vacation
> with occasional overnight guests.
> The boat will be a cottage that I can move to other areas as I see fit.
> When
> I retire, the boat becomes a condo in the Carribeans. This means I would
> like to ideally purchase a boat once. Not go from a small boat that
> doesn't
> meet my needs, use it for a number of years, resell it and start over with
> a
> a bigger boat. I don't have time for this kind of learning. Sure the
> learning curve will be pretty steep for me, but I am up to it. I learned
> how
> to drive in a big car, I can do the same with a boat :-)
>
> I looked at many types of boats and I decided I want to explore acquiring
> a
> trawler (or a tug-type boat) because of the qualities associated with
> these
> boats: seaworthyness, economy, range (wife dictates). Of course I
> want to maximize livability, and minimize boat size.
>
> It will be a used boat. I figure it will take me about 5 years to assemble
> the proper funding model for this. In the meanwhile, I will be taking tons
> of courses with CPS, the Canadian chapter of USPS.
>
> So, I know I want:
>
> - a anything-else-than wood and ferrocement hull.
> - a minimum of two closed cabins
> - a flybridge so I can spend a lot of time outside
> - a dinette. Some boats use the saloon as dinette. Not mine.
> - a saloon. Of course. With a pull-out sofa-bed for guests. So, no
> integrated furniture.
> - a sundeck/cockpit, even if barely big enough to put a table and chairs.
> - One head, with separate shower stall. More heads is a waste of space.
> One
> is enough.
> - a swin platform. The largest possible. For simming and scuba diving.
> - a practical dinghy storage, possibly aft of the flybridge.
> - low fuel consumption: 1-2 GPH at around 8 knts.
>
> With all this, I figure I would need to go at least 36 feet in lenght.
>
> 1- Could anyone here suggest brands/makers I should be looking at?
> 2- What about those fiber-glass Chris-Craft boats from the 60's and 70's
> that are for sale everywhere for fairly cheap?
> 3- Is it possible to get proper seaworthyness with anything else than the
> deep V hulls?
> 4- With all these closings of fishing grounds, surely there's a way to buy
> a
> fishing trawler and convert it? Has anyone done that?
>
> Thanks for any tip.
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