Thread: Which Trawler?
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Old 02-12-2013, 05:02 PM   #14
DavidM
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Ok, with that information I think you are looking at a 30-36' trawler, used of course and for less than $75 it will be 10 or so years old. You want to be able to cruise at 15 kts when you want to get there fast, but slow down to 7 kts or so and use much less fuel. Do I have this right?

So do some browsing on Yachtworld with those parameters. 30-36', $60-90K (boats sell for about 15% less than listing price but you don't want something old and tired so make the lower end $60k), trawler hull type, all of US since you are just browsing.

You will get more than 100 hits. But read some of them. Weed out those without enough power to cruise comfortably at 15 kts. You will need 300 hp for a 30' boat and probably 400+ hp for a 36' boat. Unfortunately Yachtworld doesn't let you use hp as a search criteria. So skip the Grand Banks, Marine Traders, Island Gypsies, etc- they won't go fast enough.

Here are a couple that meet these criteria:

On the low end of your size range, a 30' Mainship Pilot 30 with the 315 Yanmar can be bought for as little as $75K. It will sleep 4 and day cruise 6 or so.

On the upper end there are several Saberline 36s with twin Detroit 8.2s with a total of 500 hp listed for $65-85K.

At the smaller end of the scale you get more modern boats and at the upper end you get older boats.

David
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