portager
Senior Member
I have been investigating transportable trawlers (trawlers that could be shipped over land with an oversize load permit, but without a pilot car) for too many years with the intention of getting a boat that could be economically ship overland to the PNW for summer cruising and back to So Cal (where we live) for use the rest of the year. Now, my wife decided that she thinks we need/want a second stateroom for guests. I think she might be right (or I never miss an opportunity to make the boat bigger) so I started investigating double stateroom options. I quickly realized that it is had to get a transportable single stateroom trawler, but nearly impossible to find a transportable double stateroom boat. In other words you can have one stateroom is you ship it by land but to have two staterooms you have to ship it by sea. There are a couple exceptions to this rule, like the Midnight Lace and the Back Cove 37, but they are a significant compromise or very expensive.
So, how crazy is it to consider a two stateroom boat and sail it from LA to Washington every spring and back every fall? I'm not ready to retire yet and I don't want to burn all my (5 weeks of) vacation getting there and back, so I'd either hire a skipper to sail it up there for me or I'd get some watch standers and do it in a couple of extended marathon weekends. What boat options would you recommend? The requirements are two staterooms (second stateroom with at least a vee-berth), under $200K and capable of making the 1,117 NM trip from LA to Anacortes without too restrictive of a weather window.
So, how crazy is it to consider a two stateroom boat and sail it from LA to Washington every spring and back every fall? I'm not ready to retire yet and I don't want to burn all my (5 weeks of) vacation getting there and back, so I'd either hire a skipper to sail it up there for me or I'd get some watch standers and do it in a couple of extended marathon weekends. What boat options would you recommend? The requirements are two staterooms (second stateroom with at least a vee-berth), under $200K and capable of making the 1,117 NM trip from LA to Anacortes without too restrictive of a weather window.