In our search for a 40 to 44 foot trawler we ran across a 32 foot that was not much wider or longer then the sailboat we live on now. The dam thing is so cute we are actually perverting all of the ideas of thing we were looking for in a bigger boat to justify considering this little gem.
Someone please tell us that the Fales Trawler is a piece of crap! This one is a 1974 and has a fly bridge. It is not the motorsailer. If it were a sailboat I would say the narrow beam and soft chimes were signs of a good seaworthy boat, but such a sailboat relies on ballast in its keel for stability where a flat bottom power boat relies on buoyancy for stability. Does the Fales (non motorsailer) have ballast in its keel? The boat looks like it like it can take some heavy seas with its long keel, deep draft for its size, canoe stern, not to mention how they used small ports and windows.
So, is this boat as seaworthy as it looks or is it a tipsy turby punching clown that rolls every which way.
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Someone please tell us that the Fales Trawler is a piece of crap! This one is a 1974 and has a fly bridge. It is not the motorsailer. If it were a sailboat I would say the narrow beam and soft chimes were signs of a good seaworthy boat, but such a sailboat relies on ballast in its keel for stability where a flat bottom power boat relies on buoyancy for stability. Does the Fales (non motorsailer) have ballast in its keel? The boat looks like it like it can take some heavy seas with its long keel, deep draft for its size, canoe stern, not to mention how they used small ports and windows.
So, is this boat as seaworthy as it looks or is it a tipsy turby punching clown that rolls every which way.
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