If you ask the typical boater in a marina what a trawler is and they'll point to a Grand Banks or Monk designed tri cabin layout with a mast. If you asked that same person what a motor yacht is they'd likely point at a sundeck or flush deck model.
The above is certainly true of people looking to buy a trawler. They seem to know or think they know what a trawler is and many of the boats shown by posters here would be automatically dismissed from consideration.
Their appears some magic definition available only to former sailboaters looking to move to power that is not available to all the rest of us boat owners.
If you look at the example quoted above the only stated difference between the GB and the FDMY is appearance yet if you talk to the potential trawler buyer he ascribes better fuel economy and sea keeping ability to the vessel of his dreams if it is named trawler.
So he spends his time searching for a Monk or island trader and ignores the FDMY.
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