Cruising Dream (TEST): Boat selection

Boat selection

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Sell the house or Rent it

Steph

Not having much to update in terms of our cruising dream, we are looking and analyzing the next step. We are forever vacillating between Sel...

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Continuing my series on trawler styles, the next layout style is called a Sundeck. Sundeck I hesitated to make it a refinement of the double...

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Another style that seems fairly common is the Double Cabin. This is the trawler where there is usually a v-bert at the bow, and a full priva...

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Trawler layouts can generally be categorized in a few layouts with variation. Sedan The first one, and fairly common is the sedan. Typical S...

Steph

In my three part series, I have gleaned over Planing hulls and Semi-Displacement hulls. While most trawlers available fall into the semi-di...

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Continuing the series on hull shapes. Semi-Displacement Basically a semi-displacement (also called semi-planing) are hulls that are rounded ...

Steph

This is as much for me as it is for my readers (fictitious!), I am starting a series of post about my selection criteria about choosing the ...

Steph

I think we are pretty set on a trawler. So then the question about propulsion is to keep the GPH (Gas Per Hour) as minimal as possible so th...

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Well, unfortunately the boat we had made an offer on, was a lot worse structurally than I willing to put up with. No boat I doubt I would ha...