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Old 01-23-2017, 06:07 AM   #3
Donsan
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City: Satsuma FL
Vessel Name: No Mo Trawla
Vessel Model: Hurricane SS188
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Fairly certain it is a Monk designed displacement hull but at any rate, you will never get it above displacement speeds . Chung Hwa, aka CHB, built a lot of boats with a lot of different brand names on them. Marine Trader is one of the more well known of them. CHB built boats have the same shortcomings as most Taiwanese boats of that era. Watch out for soft decks and rotten balsa core beneath the teak, leaks/rust on the "black iron" fuel tanks, leaky windows and crappy electrical wiring made worse the addition and deletion of equipment over 30+ years. The need for bottom peels is not unheard of.

On the flip side, old Taiwanese boats can usually be had at good prices for all the previously mentioned issues.
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