Thread: Totally Trawler
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Old 08-06-2009, 04:06 PM   #7
Marin
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RE: Totally Trawler

No, no, no..... that Griffin thing is a sissy boat.* It's in the category known as "limp wristed" trawlers. Or in the UK as a "wanker-craft."

If you want a REAL ocean-going, aft-pilothouse trawler that is hell-built for stout and actually holds up under open-ocean condtions, then you want something like the boat pictured below.

Note that the dhow has one of the latest-generation, grabs-anything-and-holds-on-like-stink anchors instead of the Griffin's archaic Forfjord which is a throwback to the Middle Ages.* Research has shown that Forfjord acquired its name from the Vikings who thought it was such a dumb-ass design that they began calling it a*"fore fjord" because if you used one the winds that swept from the mountains down into the fjords*would inevitably*cause you to drag to the "fore" or mouth, of the fjord you were trying to anchor in.
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