What is a trawler?

[Retired. Crabber]

I have read hundreds of threads on this site and am generally confused what is considered a trawler? Is a ranger a trawler? Is a Nordic a trawler? Is a nimble a trawler? What defines a trawler? Is it displacement it appears anything slow is a trawler. Thanks in advance if I’m booted already for being salty thanks from the poop deck lol ps draggers suck crabbers rule!

 

[MurrayM]

Finally, I have found the definitive answer that will put this ad nauseam debate to bed:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trawl

Therefore, a trawler is any boat of any size and/or shape which drags a trawl behind it.

There...this debate is done!

I suggest the moderators close this thread immediately before it drags on for a couple hundred pages

 

[Retired. Crabber]

Haha

 

[Retired. Crabber]

Drags on lol a trawler joke

 

[Retired. Crabber]

So by that definition here’s a seiner I loves as a kid turbine powered 50 knots

Maritime Reporter Magazine October 1991, 8 page

 

[Retired. Crabber]

More great pics

High Performance Marine Propulsion System

 

[Alaskaflyer]

 

[Retired. Crabber]

Gorgeous Exactly what comes to mind

 

[psneeld]

Recreational trawler

 

[Retired. Crabber]

I see the majority of personal boats are really just a look

 

[Ted]

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converted seiner

 

[Retired. Crabber]

anyone ever made a a mould out of the old seiners seems the public might like the sterns and looks of the old wood seiners?

 

[Pete Meisinger]

I really don't know what a trawler is, although I own one.

When people ask me what a trawler is I generally say, "It is slow, heavy, economical and roomy".

I get a kick out of some of the mis spellings of trawler though. My favorite is "troller".

pete

 

[SteveK]

I really don't know what a trawler is, although I own one.

When people ask me what a trawler is I generally say, "It is slow, heavy, economical and roomy".

I get a kick out of some of the mis spellings of trawler though. My favorite is "troller".

pete

Are you sure it is not spelled Troll-er

 

[MurrayM]

...I get a kick out of some of the mis spellings of trawler though. My favorite is "troller"

Don't know what names are given elsewhere, but on BC's coast a troller is a commercial fishing boat that catches salmon with line & lure.

 

[Retired. Crabber]

I always thought trawlers were draggers and trollers were like hand and power trollers. I from Alaska that has always been the definition that know of. On this forum it should be old guys on big expensive slow boats lol just troll ing lol

 

[SteveK]

I always thought trawlers were draggers and trollers were like hand and power trollers. I from Alaska that has always been the definition that know of. On this forum it should be old guys on big expensive slow boats lol just troll ing lol

Well I always thought Trawl was the same as Troll but with an American accent.
Both being a term for dragging a lure or net. Much like Z is either zee or zed depending on the country.

 

[Retired. Crabber]

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[Nomad Willy]

My two cents worth ..
Heavy pleasure boat that does not plane.

 

[markpierce]

A recreational trawler doesn't need more than an 80-horsepower engine.

 

[markpierce]

Boat marketeers prefer to picture a "trawler" with the skipper and pal in an open flybridge with the boat, having multiple engines, traveling at two or three times hull speed.

 

[Simi 60]

A recreational trawler doesn't need more than an 80-horsepower engine.

Even if its 70 ft long?

 

[Simi 60]

This is a trawler

This was made from that very same trawler

 

[Retired. Crabber]

Wicked simi 60 I much prefer the wings less civilian incarnation more than the bycatch bounty! Is it yours?

 

[O C Diver]

To be fair, just about any boat can drag a trawl. So if you fabricate a trawl and drag it one time behind your boat, it's a trawler (commercial fishing trawlers aren't called something else when they don't have their trawl in the water).

Imo, a recreational trawler generally travels in displacement mode and has a salty rugged appearance.

Ted

 

[FF]

A modern recreational "trawler" is a deck house shape , plopped on to most any hull.

 

[Retired. Crabber]

I just ask because I know I own a troller not a trawler lol Anyone ever see what’s left of a bar when crabbers and draggers(trawlers) drink together usually the troopers are involved haha thanks again for the forum have read hundreds of threads full of incredible information.

 

[Simi 60]

Wicked simi 60 I much prefer the wings less civilian incarnation more than the bycatch bounty! Is it yours?

Yes

 

[markpierce]

Even if its 70 ft long?

Well, maybe up to 45 feet in length.

 

[Okydowky]

What length is a boat a yacht? If a trawler gets long enough does it loose its ever urning Trawler status and become a yacht?