Maui
Member
Hi All, This is a wonderful site with an amazing amount of insightful and sometimes sarcastic knowledge. I spent the last five years dreaming and the last three months looking for a trawler. Took a trip to Florida and learned a lot. Read through here as issues came up. When I got home I found a 1982 38' Californian with a cockpit aft right in my own backyard. Great shape. Twin 3208 Cats. Everything checked out and I bought is for a song last week. She's on the hard and I look forward to spending the next five winter months sanding and varnishing and making her beautiful. God heard me and blessed me with my dream to have a boat I can work on and live aboard all summer! I'm looking to put a door in the transom, build a larger leak swim platform, and add Europa style sides and extend the cockpit hardtop back 3' so I have shade and can get a dingy up there. Oh, yea, I guess I have to build a mast and boom. Kinda ambitious. But I love planing, researching, designing, and building. Thank you all at Trawler Forum, my brothers and sisters at sea, you make it fun and easy.