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Old 10-31-2013, 01:48 PM   #18
rpeterson
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City: Carson City
Vessel Name: Cabernet
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogen 48 NS
Join Date: Oct 2013
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All good advice. We too just purchased our Trawler this year after over a year researching, going to boat shows, climbing on boats and first deciding what was important to us. When we started out we didn't even know what was important. We then ended up with what we thought was right, but then we amended what we were looking for. Coming from a twin planning hull environment it was a big jump from that to a trawler so we were looking at semi-displacement hulls. Then we started looking at the economics in retirement. We concentrated on fuel consumption of the boat we were looking at. We didn't want to be limited to where we could travel because we couldn't afford fuel one month. So we ended up in the single engine, trawler configuration. Now we started over,, looking for what we thought we needed but at least we knew what configuration we were looking. I think everyone will admit if you are looking for economy a single engine trawler in the 35 to 45 foot length is the most economical to operate. big enough to live on and economical enough to travel on a fixed income. We started dreaming big, making offers on boats that were priced out of our range hoping we could get one to come down to our offer. FINALLY! it happened, we made an offer on a 48' Kadey Krogen NS we couldn't afford, but the boat had been on the market for over a year and they accepted our offer...HAPPY DAYS! We love her and she is the boat of our dreams. Good hunting! Enjoy the hunt, it is worth it. Dream a little and make offers on boats you can't afford. You will come up with the boat of your dreams. We did.
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