The wife and I are shopping for a Trawler instead a Sea Ray 34 -38 which is the norm found on the lake we are on. We plan to keep it on the lake for a couple of years until we retire and can move it down to the Texas coast. Our ambition is to do the loop.
On the lake, ALL the boats in the circle of friends we plan to raft up to on weekends have cruisers with gasoline gensets. How bad do diesel's smell? I mean or we going to run everyone off or better yet or they going to run us off? Are they a lot louder? I would think maybe so.
Our other thought is to purchase a gasoline 7kw genset and have a 20 gal gas tank installed and then reinstall the diesel on down the road when we move the boat down to the Gulf.
Seems like it makes more since to buy the type of boat we ultimately want instead of buying a cruiser for 2 or 3 years, loose money and then buy a trawler. Mean time we work most of the bugs out of the Trawler and really get to know it.
Any advice or ideas are welcomed!
On the lake, ALL the boats in the circle of friends we plan to raft up to on weekends have cruisers with gasoline gensets. How bad do diesel's smell? I mean or we going to run everyone off or better yet or they going to run us off? Are they a lot louder? I would think maybe so.
Our other thought is to purchase a gasoline 7kw genset and have a 20 gal gas tank installed and then reinstall the diesel on down the road when we move the boat down to the Gulf.
Seems like it makes more since to buy the type of boat we ultimately want instead of buying a cruiser for 2 or 3 years, loose money and then buy a trawler. Mean time we work most of the bugs out of the Trawler and really get to know it.
Any advice or ideas are welcomed!