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Old 12-18-2019, 07:00 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by AdkChris View Post
I was hoping to talk about how to figure out what each boat does well and not so well. Since if you listen to the people selling the boats they are all great at everything.

For now we could leave out what operational qualities are most important and just talk about how to identify the characteristics of a boat and where it falls on the trade off scale. A tall order I realize but that is my quest.

Honorable quest, but maybe more useful to just ignore the word "trawler" when you're looking at ads and focus on engine sizes and hull descriptions (where the latter is offered).

Small engine, displacement hull, good at going slow. Larger engine(s) and semi-displacement hull, a compromise. Large engines and a planing hull, good at going fast.

Latter category can go slow pretty well, too. Ours is NOT a trawler.

-Chris
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