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Old 08-13-2015, 11:31 AM   #1
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The Merits of "Old School"

Ask and ye' shall receive!
(besides, I'm bored!)

Makobuilders commented in his thread about building his custom steel trawler:

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Maybe someone oughta' start a thread about the merits of "old school." When I bought my boat it was 35+ years old, had 50+ year old engines in her with aluminum blocks (pulled from a WW2 minesweeper) and had sailed from the Great Lakes to Hawaii, South Pacific, Australia, back and all over the western hemisphere again. All with systems not much more complicated than Robert Beebe's. No a/c, hydraulic stabilizers, etc. If it ain't onboard then it can't break!
So, how do the rest of you feel about "Old School Trawlers?"

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