TomandJeri
Senior Member
We're moving laterally from trailer and keel boats to a trawler (hopefully), with only a trailer sailor left to play with, and even that's going on the market soon.
We want to make the move to a trawler of some stripe, as much for the room below decks as above. Deck chairs, lots of glass, and not feeling like being down in a tunnel. With any luck, a Great Loop trip is in our future. But that's looking down the road a bit far, post-retirement.
With mobility slowly becoming an issue with age, we'd greatly prefer a sedan type trawler, with a large cockpit on the same level as the main saloon. Fly bridge, mast and boom for dinghy handling, traditional looks, and so on. Single screw like the Lehman 120 or 135, displacement hull (or semi-displacement if the hp isn't too high), though small twins aren't out of the question. 36-40 ft range.
The Grand Banks 36 Sedan is almost ideal, but they're mostly overseas, and the 32 is too small even though they're gorgeous, or so says my other half. Island Gypsy, Universal, and a couple of others have caught my eye, but the search has just started.
Anyway, just wanted to say hi, and lay out where we're coming from.
We want to make the move to a trawler of some stripe, as much for the room below decks as above. Deck chairs, lots of glass, and not feeling like being down in a tunnel. With any luck, a Great Loop trip is in our future. But that's looking down the road a bit far, post-retirement.
With mobility slowly becoming an issue with age, we'd greatly prefer a sedan type trawler, with a large cockpit on the same level as the main saloon. Fly bridge, mast and boom for dinghy handling, traditional looks, and so on. Single screw like the Lehman 120 or 135, displacement hull (or semi-displacement if the hp isn't too high), though small twins aren't out of the question. 36-40 ft range.
The Grand Banks 36 Sedan is almost ideal, but they're mostly overseas, and the 32 is too small even though they're gorgeous, or so says my other half. Island Gypsy, Universal, and a couple of others have caught my eye, but the search has just started.
Anyway, just wanted to say hi, and lay out where we're coming from.
