Recent content by Lois

This semantic issue about motoryachts and trawlers only becomes important in the search for a boat...as Yachtworld.com has a category called Trawler and one called Cruiser, I thought it would be helpful to understand what these categories actually mean and what one might expect to find within...

Gosh, have I ever lucked out with all of your responses....a rich and diverse range of opinions and information...topped off with a very cerebral last set of posts....not just food for thought, but a feast...and very courteously expressed. Wow what a forum...slippers and all. Lois

Thanks to you all for your kind responses...lots of good meaty stuff to mull over and to delve deeper into....although I confess I am beginning to regard this more as a Slipper Forum! Lois

Delfin...oops. You have identified one of my weaknesses...I'm not really a slipper kind of gal! ;) I really do appreciate you sharing your opinions....they are like signposts for me so thanks very much. Lois

Hi Art - Clark sends regards! Regarding Trawlers: 1. What size, creature comforts and cruising capabilities you seeking to locate? was thinking around 40', capable of doing the loop, Caribbean and then through the Canal north to the PNW 2. Specific age range or price points? - like the look of...

Hello O C Diver - very amusing suggestion for an avatar...it is true, though, that most of my sailing buddies consider I am going through a dangerous metamorphosis! I think I have seen this described as the Dark Side. Maybe Darth Vader might be a better avatar? ;)

Delfin...as we share some sailing experience, I am grateful for your perspective. I will takeaway from your response that a trawler is more seaworthy and capable and comfortable in a seaway than a motor yacht....will have to purchase some bunny slippers, though!

mahal - thanks, too, for your response. Salty can be so subjective...but I get what you are saying. Salty seems to be intuitive somehow. Bayliner not so salty, Grand Banks more salty....?

Rambler...thanks for your response. Hull design - what in particular? But more hard chine, beamey, what?

I hope this question won't insult you all. I thought I was a die hard sailor, but now am attracted by the proposition of living aboard a trawler. I think. I know nothing about power boats having sailed with an auxiliary engine only. You know what they say - each journey begins with a first step...