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Old 05-20-2012, 10:19 PM   #69
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So it's not like these boats had to cruise around with a permanent load of iced fish in the hold for stability. Even if they had, the ice would have melted fairly quickly and then they'd have had a really stinky boat on their hands.
My boat - a "yacht-like" version of a commercial fishing hull, was originally built by and for what could be called a "gentleman fisherman". He intended to troll to supplement his retirement, so there was an insulated fish hold extending under about half of the saloon and half of the cockpit, a trolling valve, and even an icing machine under the starboard side deck. That machine is gone now, of course, and I converted the hold into more usable stowage (batteries, w/d, et cetera). The trolling valve is handy sometimes when we're in a slow procession (e.g. the "Special People's Cruise" at Christmas).
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