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From: Kurt Reno (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 07:34:28 EDT
There seems to be enough definitions of "Trawler", even on this list, to
justify any of the claims made by yacht brokers these days. If you want to
claim you have a trawler so that you can feel good about the lifestyle
choice you have made that is fine with me. If you tell me you own a
trawler dockside and I see a planning hull, I will assume that you are
relatively new to boating.
To me a trawler is a motorboat that handles very good on all points of track
in rough seas at slow speed, downwind, abeam, into head seas or anything in
between. The ride may not be comfortable but the boat tracks well and
handles fine. This is usually determined by a combination of the underwater
hull lines, the displacement and the A/B ratio.
The trawler carries enough fuel and stores for extended, away-from-the-dock
cruising.
Anything else that does not meet these two things to me is either wishful
thinking or a trawler styled motorboat.
In terms of defining "trawler" by lifestyle, anyone who does that should
consider selling boats. A trawler is an asset not a lifestyle. I think it's
perfectly ok for anyone on any type of boat to claim the lifestyle.
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