Thanks Art but unlike your boat adding power to mine won't increase it's speed.
Bill
Trawlers are cool.
A trawler is whatever boat I own.
A trawler is not the boat you own.
Unless I think you have a cool boat, then it's a trawler.
On a side note, You never hear a Krogen 42 owner calling his boat anything but a trawler or anyone else calling it anything else, it just is. If you own a true trawler you know it. If you dont and thats what you want it to be then you can just say it is and therefor thats what it is. But, very few of us actually "trawl" or even have a trawl net on the boat, let alone a pair of boards. I do carry a sport net and a little bitty set of trawl boards, just for rec. shrimp season. That still doesnt make my sporty a trawler.
Seriously though, a trawler is a specific type and rigged commercial boat. Recreational boats called trawlers are typically heavy, slow displacement boats that can be operated at good economy.
If you ask the typical boater in a marina what a trawler is and they'll point to a Grand Banks or Monk designed tri cabin layout with a mast. If you asked that same person what a motor yacht is they'd likely point at a sundeck or flush deck model.
Is the above correct? Debatable. But since I pointed out in my humorous post that trawlers are cool, most all manufacturers and brokers call their boat trawlers to attract sales.
JMHO, YMMV
"Yachts" is a word argued about just as much as "Trawlers". Everyone has their own opinion. We don't one a trawler or yacht or cruiser or sportsfisherman or downeaster or anything....just boats.
"Yachts" is a word argued about just as much as "Trawlers". Everyone has their own opinion. We don't one a trawler or yacht or cruiser or sportsfisherman or downeaster or anything....just boats.
"Yachts" is a word argued about just as much as "Trawlers". Everyone has their own opinion. We don't one a trawler or yacht or cruiser or sportsfisherman or downeaster or anything....just boats.
I'd state the definition of a trawler this way:
A boat with a displacement or semi-displacement hull and diesel power, typically with traditional styling, and with a design and features that emphasized comfort, range, and economy over speed.
Badda-bing, badda-boom. Done and done. Send in the next case!
Hah! My boat's designer says it is a trawler yacht!
(Three sets of individuals walking by the Coot in the marina after it's four-hour outing today, said the boat is "beautiful." Most days, it is only one or two.)
I see no mention of "trawler" on their site....
Correct. As previously mentioned, that adjective/noun is on the designer's site.
We call our GB 32.....Ebbtide and that works for us.
Sheesh, we're taking the boat out!
OMG - Trawler / Yacht could be shortened to spell the nickname "T W A T" OMG!!!
Is that why boats are consistently referred to in the female gender???
Just Wonderen!! LOL
I'd state the definition of a trawler this way:
A boat with a displacement or semi-displacement hull and diesel power, typically with traditional styling, and with a design and features that emphasize comfort, range, and economy over speed.
Badda-bing, badda-boom. Done and done. Send in the next case!